Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 3 degrees, fresh and sunny in the morning but cold in the afternoon and evening. It’s a beautiful, sunny, and fresh day. Exercise early, write in my journal early, and be ready to go out. When I’m in Brazil, I often say that I’m going to talk to the natives, or I will be with the natives, […]
Friday the 23rd of February 2024: “English Nature to Brazilian Chaos”!!!
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 3 degrees, bitterly cold but sunny with blue skies. In the morning, it was a beautifully sunny day with blue skies, but in the afternoon, it was shitty weather with a lot of rain and bitterly cold. I usually have a class at 11 a.m. in England, which is 7 a.m. in Brazil. I sometimes expect the […]
Thursday the 22nd of February 2024: “Food, Eating, Weight and Relationships”!!!
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 6 degrees, dark, grey, cold and a lot of rain. A freezing and shitty English day again. It has rained all day, and I don’t think it’s going to stop until tomorrow. I had drunk a couple of glasses of wine and beer the night before, and because of this, I’m feeling the effects. I’m feeling too […]
Wednesday the 21st of February 2024: “The Time Zone Difference”!!!
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 8 degrees, chilly, damp, wet, and rainy the whole day. In the morning, it was raining heavily; I had to go out and take a urine sample to my mother’s doctor for testing. I also took the opportunity to do a little shopping at the butcher’s and the local supermarket. For the rest of the day, I […]
Tuesday the 20th of February 2024: “Bureaucracy and Stress at The West Bromwich Building Society”!!!
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 8 degrees, chilly, overcast and with the possibility of rain. Stress at the West Bromwich Building Society in Kingswinford. Every Tuesday, my mother collects her pension from the West Bromwich Building Society in Kingswinford. She needs to withdraw the money there to deposit it in the Nationwide Building Society next door to pay her bills. I don’t […]
Monday the 19th of February 2024: “Spring, and Brazil’s New Year”!!!
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 9 degrees, cool, sunny, and slightly overcast. It’s lovely to see the weather milder than when I arrived. The nights are bitterly cold, and the days are mild by British standards. Spring is coming, and it is nice to see the trees along the canal paths and my mother’s next-door neighbours’ trees blossoming in a beautiful, dark […]
Sunday the 18th of February 2024: “Breaking Free: Financial Freedom”!!!
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 9 degrees, sunny, overcast, and with showers. It is Sunday and the weather is very shitty, the rain stops and starts all the time. I wanted to go out for a long walk, but I haven’t been able to for quite some time. My life has been on a roll for the last six months or so, […]
Saturday the 17th of February 2024: “A Lime Squeezer Reflection”!!!
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 9 degrees, colder, greyer, overcast, and with the possibility of rain. It is early Saturday morning, not as early as if I were in Brazil, but still early; it is drizzly outside, with the rain stopping and starting all the time. I managed to do a quick half-hour workout on the back patio, combining skipping and elastic […]
Friday the 16th of February 2024: “Our Ring and Ride to Sainsbury’s and Back”!!!
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 9 degrees, sunny, cool, with blue skies and the possibility of rain. Today is the first day my mother has left home after her surgery, apart from when she went to the doctors to have the surgical staples removed, and for physiotherapy at the hospital. My mother had booked a minibus service with ‘Ring and Ride’ that […]
Thursday the 15th of February 2024: “New Beginnings, A Transformative Day”!!!
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 14 degrees, coolish, sunny and bright with blue skies. What a day, one of the best days of my life, in terms of surprises and money! The inheritance from my uncle Mick came through. It was what I had expected; I would have liked to have received more, of course, but this small amount will help me […]