Not only the prerogative of Obama.
My socks get holes, I change them.
My underpants lose their elastic, I change them.
My coffee gets too damned expensive, I change it.
I am not talking about fancy civet shit coffee, that costs oodles; I am talking about a good Brazilian coffee.
I have always preferred Pilão, but over the last four years that has slowly increased in price and arrived at R$8/500gms (US$4/1lb+ or -). That may not be expensive from your perspective, but it is here. One supermarket has it at R$10. I have taken to lesser brands, Caanan and Bom Dia, but now they too have reached the nearly R$8 mark. I wait in hope for specials on all these brands, in the meantime, I am trying Sul de Minas, which is R$6 at the normal price.
It was recommended to me, but after two days, I find it is weaker than the others; requireing 6 heaped spoons as opposed to 5, which in turn means instead of 8 servings from a packet, I get 6.8… So is it cheaper?
Life is so fraught with problems.
Brazil has lost an up and coming footballer to the professionalism of European soccer. Neymar has been signed up with Barcelona.
Last team Santos whose performance will suffer without him.
So Santos is Neymarless.
Rained most of the day, Lixo arrives to eat, sleep, then off he goes meowing for his latest flame.
Between rains, I wandered to the gate to see what was happening in the world. I watched a pigeon having an opportune drink from a puddle in the street.
It struck me how similar pigeons are to humans.
Here was this girl having a quiet drink at the pigeon bar while a healthy young male was determined to have his wicked way with her.
Isn’t that just like a human; pestering a girl alone at the bar.
While I was searching for a pigeon piccy, I found the nicest pigeon photo I have ever seen.
I am not a pigeon fancier, but I took a fancy to that photo, impressive.
That’s it, making like the pigeons and flocking off…
Later.
Good action shot!
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>manchester, of the pigeon, awesome.
AV
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oh coffee, I was just reading about coffee over at Green Door Hospitality. Brazilian coffee.
http://greendoorhospitality.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/cocktail-corner-iced-irish-cream-coffee/
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>OAiC, yum yum, iced coffee.
AV
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AV,
I wonder if Neymar will be able to conform to the Barcelona system…he is such a brilliant footballer. I do think he is better off with Barcelona than with any of the Premier League teams. As a ManU fan I am just glad he didn’t end up with Man City.
Here in the US the govt. taxes our cigarettes and alcohol beyond reason…if coffee becomes too expensive there may finally be a popular revolt to reclaim our right to have affordable vices.
Ron
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>Ronald, it will be interesting to follow his progress. His home team Santos suffered a defeat in their first game sans Neymar; this does not bode well for the future.
The revolt is coming, sooner than expected, by all accounts that I have read. Some are particularly pessimistic.
AV
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