MEZZANINE?
WHAT MEZZANINE??



I really had almost pretty much forgotten my mezzanine, ever since we took out the wooden stairs in May to make way for the incoming kitchen affair.....
So a couple of weeks ago ( in reality quite a lot longer obviously....this is Brasil, after all ), I ordered a spiral staircase to be constructed at a local workshop, run by the brother of a mate of mine....
So in true Brasilian fashion, it nearly arrived for several weeks,
then it very nearly arrived for a couple more weeks,
then it really did nearly arrive for another week or two,
and then one day completely out of the blue it actually really did actually arrive.
Then they nearly came and installed it for several weeks,
then they very nearly really really installed it for a couple of weeks,
and then this Monday they arrived actually in person, and actually went ahead and without so much as a by-your-leave began to actually really in reality actually before your very eyes definitively install it,
and then after a day and a half it was actually completely installed, complete down to the constructed-on-the-spot handrails.....
Unfortunately, it only works for midgets, or those who can bend double, as I wanted it at the side of the Mezz to save space, but where a roof beam hits you at chest height.....but it's my choice.....
I'm buying motorcycle helmets for mezzanine dwellers....
Health and Safety a priority here once again....
And I have a friend who is a masseuse.....

Trouble is,now it's installed and everything, I really miss having something to ( probably) look forward to.....



Ooooh here it is again......


Ooooooh and also please note there are now TWO light units over the counters....
Yes two....
My dream come true, twice.....
Didn't take long either.....
The second one nearly got made for a while....
Then it really nearly got made for a while longer....
Then.....
I'm sorry....
However hard you try, it does get to you after a while....



Oh, they do grow on trees....
This explains my comment earlier that they grow on trees.....
I thought I'd already shown this pic.....
Sorry.


Loook!!!!!!!!!!!
Verandah with tiles and marble edging and roof and roof tiles and everything.....
Didn't take long did it?????
Well.......?

Random people shots....



Me and Sonia and Ornella at me and Sonia's birthday bash....



Pamela being cutesy on the sofa.....



Scott, my buddy from Florida on the stoop of his mebbe house,
in a carefully guarded secret location.....( hint : it's near some lagoons.....)
In the background is a tree.



Paddy and Collette at Estacao Boqueirao the night
before flying home a few weeks ago...



A pic of me doing my laundry whilst wearing it,
after a particularly sloppy Italian pasta luncheon yesterday....
Well at least these days I actually do something about the stains, sometimes....

Years ago ( not that many actually) I use to wake up after clubbing and wonder what the yellow and red stripes were down the front of my normally immaculate T-shirt only to remember being slumped drunkenly up against the side of the My Van waiting for my double cheese burgers ( yes, plural) to be handed over......mustard and ketchup in stripes....very chic in it's day I'll have you know....
My plan was to never run out of cheeseburger all the way home.....so one to eat at the van because you can't eat and carry three, and then two to get me down Pulteney street as far as the flat.....
Ahhhhh those were the days....
Can you imagine eating one sober though???
Has anyone ever???

Mind you, maybe a Big DuDuNight you could....??