When you grow up on an island with just over 120k people (140k now I believe), measuring around 30 miles across, by less that 10 miles wide, the sea is all around you, plus with a moderate temperature year round, you can basically swim 365 days a year.

The reason for this trip t the past was that I found a picture of the old “Sao Pedro” pool, this is where I learned how to swim, and probably spent all my free time from the age of 6 to 12.

On the bottom right you can see somebody carrying one of the numbered hangers they would give you to put your clothes and shoes, you would then be handed a bracelet with the matching number to pick it up later.

The pool was demolished about 20 years ago to make wave for the expansion of the main avenue, on it’s place a newer, bigger, more modern pool was built, but for those people of my age and older, it will always lack the nostalgia of this old small pool

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

A Chrome Mercedes McLaren !!

I never though a chrome car would look good, but this one sure did, one word .. Sweet

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

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)

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 !!!

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 ?

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