Instant Pot Chilli Beans A favourite of mine, especially in Winter. It’s delicious, it’s filling, it’s healthy and protein rich but meat free. It’s very important that the beans are soaked overnight (a minimum of 6 hours and a maximum of 10 hours). I like to drain and change the…
End/Start of Year with Granddaughter 29 Dec – 3rd Jan
End/Start of Year with Granddaughter 29 Dec – 3rd Jan I always write quick entries of what happens when my granddaughter is with us on my calendar. This one I’m putting here because it got very existential! We didn’t spend Christmas together this year, but we had a few days…
22/10/22 – Savoury cake – recipe given to me by Paula Soares
22/10/22 – Savoury cake After Sunday’s Capoeira class, Paula let me have a taste of this savoury cake she made and it was so lovely I asked for the recipe. It’s a recipe passed on to her by her grandmother (they are the best) and Paula kindly shared with me,…
What I know about Yoga
What I know about Yoga (Go to last update 14 Oct 2022) First published 4th of November 2017 Yoga Journey Back in 1995, when I was in college, a friend told me about Yoga. She practised it at home, every morning at 6am and she said it had made her…
What I know about YouTube Fitness Videos
What I know about YouTube Fitness Videos (Go to last update 14 Oct 2022) First published 24th of September 2020 Lockdown YouTube Fitness Videos I’ve done a few fitness DVDs over the years: T25, Insanity, Ashtanga Yoga with David Swenson, Rodney Yee, Zumba… and I am a fan of them.…
What I know about Music – My progress in one page!
Learning the guitar – My progress in one page! (Go to last update 13 Oct 2022) 12 January 2018 I learned classical guitar for about 6 months when I was 15 years old, back in Brasilia. Long enough to develop callouses (which have long faded away) and to get frustrated…
London 17/09/2022 Saturday – Queen Queue
London 17/09/2022 Saturday – Queen Queue As we all know, the Queen has died and one of the longest queues ever seen is taking place in London. The mother of all queues became an attraction in itself: performance art, pilgrimage, madness… The queue’s meaning being in the eye of the…
Adrift and abandoned in a toxic sea of chaos
26th of August 2022 An ordinary person trying to make sense of the world… Lately it feels like nothing works anymore and the fabric of society is disintegrating… Is this what a civilisation in decline looks like? The end of the world as we know it? It started with the…
Recipe Spiced beef and dauphinoise potato pie
Spiced beef and dauphinoise potato pie – [ ] grated 4 cloves garlic – [ ] 400ml beef stock – [ ] 1 x 400g tin tomatoes – [ ] 100g cheddar grated – [ ] 1kg maris piper potatoes – [ ] 2 onions – [ ] thinly sliced…
Books read
Haphazard list, lots missing… 2023 Barba ensopada de sangue – Daniel Galera Anos de chumbo – Chico Buarque (this link only works for me) You don’t know what war is – Yeva Skalietska Spare – Prince Harry the Duke of Sussex O Irmão Alemão – Chico Buarque (this link only…