Well..........it's all been comparatively "happening" since Hannah arrived just after I got my crutches.....and to prove that most of it has been good, here's a photo of the sky not falling in, taken this morning.......we decided that after our busy day on the road yesterday, see below, we'd have a quiet day at home today.....so we spent the very hot first half by the pool at home.......

......and lo! ......as if it wasn't enough of a surprise to find the sky in the sky, there in the pool, before my very eyes were my legs....right there, just like that!! Well, I couldn't resist giving them a bit of a wiggle and a jiggle.....and lo! ....three hours later I was still at it .....lo! I thought. Fucking lo!
So, having thought lo! over and over, I eventually thought "....behold, behold my legs ...." ....so I did, I did behold my legs and I was so chuffed at that, I burst into spontaneous laughter, which I prolonged deliberately though obviously by now not very spontaneously, so that Hannah could take the picture shown below. But the idea to prolong the laughter was spontaneous at least!

And to the left of the photo below you can see my crutches, shown here for the first time! Funnily enough, I haven't had occasion to use them much, but yesterday in the bathroom I walked right out of them, and for much of yesterday I walked carefully on just my legs....which if you do it all the time, as most of you I'm sure do, is no big deal, but for me, after 6 or 7 weeks in a wheelchair or lying down, is no mean feat. That is not a deliberate pun, by the way. I'm not that cheap. As you will have noticed by now, far too much labouring goes into my humour for it to be cheap.

Amusingly, we finally managed to find a new wheel for the wheelchair yesterday....amusingly, because, firstly, as of yesterday I don't need a wheelchair any more, and secondly because I couldn't get a matching wheel I had to buy a whole new set which cost me thousands and thousands of centavos. Luckily thats fuck all in pounds.

So I am sort of walking again......hurrah!

.......and now pictured below, an incredible leap backwards in time to yesterday afternoon.....is everyone still with us? The journey is about to begin. Is everybody in? IS EVERYBODY IN????
Here's Hannah and Pedro at Arraial do Cabo......opposite is an island owned by the Brasilian Navy, and on it you can see what is rated in the Brasilian Guia 4 Rodas beach guide as the best beach in Brasil. Wot no discotheque????!!!