So it was a typical flight, albeit exacerbated by the number of bags and Amélie ( Read more... )

So yesterday was two thirds a day of waiting around while Lu rented a car, followed by driving up to Botucatu. The car had a decent stereo and aircon, but was underpowered and had a tiny boot (a Fiesta, and 1 litre at a guess); I put one large case in it, and that was that... useless! The best vehicle here would be a Pickup Truck with a double row ( Read more... )

So it's definitely a stomach bug of some description. The weird sensation grew into agonising pain through all my joints, and that horribly familiar churning of my stomach. It reached a peak of please-kill-me-now type pain around 6-7pm, which was nice. So far I haven't thrown up, and I bloody well hope it doesn't come to that. I took some ( Read more... )

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I've not done much of an Amélie update, but then it's so hard to spot the overall big changes among the incremental ( Read more... )

And I really ought to capture a couple of Amélie things (sorry for the Twitter/Facebook repeat).

I was wearing my Dangermouse T-shirt and she pointed at it at a random time and said "M-ow!" (which is her version of mouse). I was amazed.

Then tonight she kept saying "Ammie", which we're fairly sure is her trying to say Amélie. It was very cute.

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A couple of cute Amélie things today, before I forget, despite all the madness ( Read more... )