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Tuesday 29 November 2011

Occupy London

Kids and adults. Fathers and sons. The other day Sam amused himself in his usual way by taking the car keys, chewing them and at some mysterious moment, dropping them. The question is where ? Since they never turned up I can only guess it was down the toilet, perhaps as he reached to flush the chain - another new trick.

Thursday 10 November 2011

Like a Virgin

After suffering the nightmare of Telefonica Brazil's broadband - possibly faster than a carrier pigeon but certainly not fast enough to watch video, while at the same time being criminally expensive - I know I should be pathetically grateful for any old broadband back in Blighty. But human nature being what it is, I soon became itchy to test out the competition.

Neighbours

... everybody needs good neighbours. And here's another truism: when it rains, it pours. When it was "raining" in Sao Paulo, which was often - very often - it was amazing how many other things contributed to the soaking I received.

Tuesday 8 November 2011

Unreal and unjust

After our violent robbery in June and subsequently being told by local police that I and my son were in danger of kidnapping unless we moved house, all I wanted to do was get back to the UK.

Friday 4 November 2011

Stable door

There it goes again, slamming wildly long after the horses have bolted. I never thought I'd take such interest in the UKBA but after our experience I might be forgiven for becoming a bit obsessed with it. The vast incompetence and worse now being unearthed just adds to my bitterness about the overzealous, money-grubbing and punitive way we were treated, although hopefully it's all in the past tense now.

Misinformation Age

Coming back from the Stone Age that was life in Brazil has made me appreciate life in the UK a thousand times more. As we settle back into the London flat, the ability to order things online and have them delivered to the door - up four flights of stairs, thank you Amazon, Tesco et al - has been wondrous to behold. I am reborn as an online evangelist.