Noah CooperI live in the city of Curitiba in the state of Paraná in the south of Brazil. It is a relatively prosperous city and also quite organised. In the last 30 years the city has expanded at a phenomenal rate which initially saw the city expanding...
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” Carl Sagan Destination: Imagination (Wikipedia) One of the joys of being a parent (and there has to some sort of valid reason for putting up with...
Jacques Rudolph cover drive (Wikipedia) “And Head of the Heard plays a glorious cover drive to reach his maiden century. Surely there are many more ahead of him in what promises to be a glittering career…” I am a cricket fan and...
Sneaking up on them doesn’t work either (satakieli) We’ve all done it. Who doesn’t like to chase birds? When you’re walking through a park or a town square you see a group of likely looking birds and you can’t resist...
I gave up studying physics at school when I was 14. It was just too difficult and I was much more interested in humanities to bother with all those formulas and everything. Today, I think it was one of the worst decisions of my life as I love...
Brazilian Dishes by Liana Leão and Luciana Patrícia de Morais Exotic Foods: Yucky or Yummy? Desserts Straight from Seventh Heaven. The Fruit that Cries: Acai. Weird Foods with Funny Names. These are some of the titles from a book I was recently...
Never touched him, ref! (Wikipedia) If Mr. T were ever to be a good footballer he would be able to choose on of 3 countries to play for. If he were very good, he could choose to play for Brazil because that is where he was born. If he were average...
The Ashes Urn (Wikipedia) I am rejoicing. It is quite a strange feeling for me, but British sport seems to have developed a backbone and started to win stuff. Following on from the successful Olympics last year the British and Irish (though mainly...
Could have been taken in Brazil (Wikipedia) It was cold here in Curitiba a couple of weeks ago. And I mean really cold. On one night it got down to -3! And it snowed! That’s how cold it was. It hasn’t snowed here since 1975. Ok, if...
Blatantly underground (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There are lots of things that make us happy. I am at my happiest just after Mr. T has gone to bed and I can get a beer and my wife can have a glass of wine (or two). But that doesn’t really...