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Okay, I’m feeling good, I finally have my internet back, as you now know, and I felt like being chirpy . A while ago when I was a little down I did a list of things I hated. It’s not complete, it’s just the things I hate most, I failed to include spiders (my arachnophobia’s gotten much worse, I’m on the verge of a panic attack each time I catch one, then again mum screaming at one makes me scream at one more so it’s all her fault , although I ignore the ones in the kitchen, they’re the really ...

She crossed the narrow frontier
at the elastic border of Heaven
which, as is well known,
expands and contracts with God's every breath

Even a shallow cough balloons to save
countless nearly worthy souls

As she stood, very close,
peering in, as best she could,
God, distracted, cleared His throat
and let her in

Eu tinha cerca de 12 anos. Na roça, onde morava, as moças que eu via eram poucas, e somente quando ia à feira de Capela, arraial à uma légua de nossa casa.
Eu me enfeitava todo no dia de sábado, dia de feira em Capela do Alto Alegre. Meu chapéu novo de couro, uma casaca e as alpercatas de cromo. Jogava um pouco de cheiro no corpo, roubado da mamãe. Olhos dançando, no caminho. Buscam Mariá, vindo do Tabuleiro. ...

A week last Saturday I took the early train with my kids and some of their friends to London for a Manga/ Anime convention at the Excel Building in Docklands. My two are into this Japanese comic/ animation form, and it does look quite interesting, though I have to admit I haven’t really read much.

So we had an uneventful trip down – I was reading and listening to my MP3, and the kids talked amongst themselves and texted each other constantly – as they do. The tube journey took about ...

Ah hello. I’ve been ignoring you for the past 3 weeks because I’m a *****.

Just kidding. My internet totally screwed up I’ve been waiting all this time to get it fixed. It’s fixed now yay. Recent news, very quickly, I don’t want to go on too long, I’ve a lot of catching up to do. Mi-chan is looking really good, Chibi not so good and Hoshi very good but a few shrivelled leaves that concern me. I didn’t go to the expo last weekend. I’m really annoyed about it. Long story short My ...