We are replacing the Kitchen, Living and Dining rooms at our house, the kitchen was ordered and the bespoke (massive 3.3 x 2.7 meters) couch as well, but while I am waiting I started on the small jobs, like earlier today I replaced the down-lights on the kitchen with these antique brass “Austin” ones .. looks spectacular.
I have been watching the show “Hoarders” on iTunes for the past few nights, and was struck with amazement at how people can live like that, piles and piles of junk and other worthless (for me at least) memorabilia piling up in their houses.
I then saw my wife deleting all her facebook comments of the last year and erasing all texts from her iPhone, I asked “why ?” she said she wanted to get rid of all the clutter from her digital media, like a end-of-year cleaning ..
It then daunted on me, I am a “Data Hoarder”, while I have no problem in hiring a skip every year and emptying the garage of all the clutter, I am unable to delete a single file from my Hard Drive, I have a couple of years worth of texts on my iPhone and e-mails from 2 decades ago (well, 2 decades from tomorrow).
My wife looks at my laptop the same way I look at those hoarders houses, a conglomerate of junk and (for her) worthless heaps of data, but for me, they priceless.
Well, at least my hoarding does not smell 
Today outside the Canary Wharf apartment was this beast !
A Chrome Mercedes McLaren !!
I never though a chrome car would look good, but this one sure did, one word .. Sweet
I hate to carry coins, so every night I tend to empty my pockets of any coins I accumulated during the day, so as such, I noticed I was starting to gather quite a few handfuls of coins all around the apartment, it was time for a Piggy bank
And this is it, over 2 feet tall, probably will hold quite a few hundred quid when full, if I timed it correctly, should be read to empty just around XMAS .. the girls will like that 
Today I received the new HD camera I bought on Friday, I was quite surprised, as I bought it from Honk Kong .. 3 days (weekend) to get here, and not customs charge … nice.
Since we are off on holiday to Paris next month, I wanted a new video camera to use there, when I read this one also took 8MP photos, I was hooked, plus the pistol grip style and small format, it was a winning combination.
But I had to wait 2 months for it, as it was announced on january, but just released a week or so ago
Preliminary tests show the quality is amazing, I was a bit afraid of the lack of Optical Stabilization, but the digital stabilizer seems to do a good job, so I will stop worrying about it and just enjoy the camera.
Also saved 150 quid over the UK price 
(not that you can buy it in the UK yet)
There is a small eatery next to the office that does the best L&B ever.. Dirt cheap too, me and Everaldo have lunch there almost daily.
I’m in the train going back to London for another week of work.
I can’t believe a week has passes already since I last posted on tweeter the same thing.
Time sure flies, I take solisse in the knowing I have Brazilian feijoada waiting for me in London … Yummy !!!
Last night must have fallen about a foot of snow in London, and unfortunately, on a country not used to such levels, it meant everything grinded to a halt.
I had to walk about 2 miles to work since the DLR broke down, on a normal day it would have been ok, but on ice and mushy slippery snow, it was murder .. dont they have snow plows in London ?
One of my favorite eateries here in London is this pizza place chain called “Pizza Express”.
While it’s a chain, their quality is excellent, and the price is OK, me and Everaldo got hooked to their Achovies Pizza, so tonight we braved the mild weather outside on a 15 minute wait for a table
… It’s worthed
I’m soo in the mood for cheap out of a styrophome cup noodles… No idea why
So let’s see if it tastes as good as I remember
