IT'S BACK!!!!
After months of absinthe, no absess, no absence...due, actually to having nothing of any note to report...
But here we go, random jots and photes...


The Gerrits...with glass topped table...
I need an outlet for these...UK price around £750 a set plus shipping...
Outdoor variants available ( i.e. split hardwood back and seat to allow drainage), painted or wood, hand made in solid non-Amazonian hardwood ( and a couple of bits of ply obviously...), constructed with wooden pegs as per the originals, which are worth around £250,000 each in their red/blue version...
I loves 'em...


The estate as it was a few months ago when building work was pretty much complete...
Needs a few more trees and plants...


The shadey veranda, great for brekkies...
The nearest bush is now inundated with dwarf tomato plants...
The roof terrace roof is now further palmed up...just needs chairs and table...


My mates Sonia and Lu at my fave lagoonside
bar Estacao Boqueirao a while back...
Pinchico, the bar's boss, is standing for election at the mo'...which consists of him and hundreds of mates driving round and round the town every other night on small 'sickles and in cars and trucks, beeping horns, screaming , shouting, chanting, waving flags, blasting out soundsystems at a deafening level, letting off explosives and generally blocking all traffic and all attempts at normal day to day life... and everything...
(The candidates are allowed to donate petrol to supporters!!)
Meanwhile, all the other candidates and their supporters are doing exactly the same thing at exactly the same time in exactly the same places, and there you have it....Brasilian politics.
I doubt that one in a hundred of the supporters has the vaguest idea about any of the candidate's vaunted policies, but this in fact matters little, as the chances of any of the candidates actually carrying out any of the policies if elected is pretty much zero anyway, and there you have it, Brasilian politics...