February 8, 2010 – 2:03 PM
Many of you already know the story of Penfold & Tango (you can read most of it from Tango’s perspective starting from about here). If you remember, it began as Operation Beige-Free.
When Penfold asked me to live with him in the hills of Central Portugal and I agreed, most everyone I knew thought I was crazy. [...]
January 5, 2010 – 3:35 PM
It’s raining. I’m knitting. It’s pouring. I’m knitting.
The sky is grey and the ground is sopping wet. The Christmas decorations have come down and the holiday festivities have come to a screeching halt. A momentous decade ended and we slipped into 2010 with a small but slushy thud.
This is winter in Central Portugal and even though [...]
November 19, 2009 – 1:12 PM
I’m thrilled to announce the tangoNovemberbravo Winter Collection. Spurred on by a motivational boost when I sold out of these fingerless gloves, I decided to make an even better version and came up with these and these. According to Penfold they rock (I think so, too). Add some kick ass socks, felted nesting bowls, hats and legwarmers and [...]
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October 5, 2009 – 7:57 PM
When we moved to Cabril it was a shock to discover that our Internet connection was slower than molasses. Skype is out of the question and waiting for any graphics-heavy page to load is excruciating. YouTube is now verboten. My frustration soon grew to new levels and I began to avoid my “vintage” computer altogether.
Then suddenly [...]
Furniture has been polished, food has been relocated to the swishy new fridge, carpets have been unrolled and vacuumed, satellites have been realigned, computers have been plugged in.
We’re surrounded by boxes of stuff that have absolutely no purpose but we’re finally home and we couldn’t be happier.
Only the Internet is slightly beyond our reach …
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Cheers [...]
So the date has been set.
Ready or not, we will be moving into Cabril in just a few days – huzzah! The bathroom has (almost) been tiled, the walls have (almost) been painted, the kitchen parts have (almost) been delivered and (almost) all of the windows are scheduled to be installed on Monday. The heat [...]
Since the first time I left home I’ve dreamed of colour. I’ve dreamed of choosing from an open palette and painting the walls that surround me. To be energized or soothed by a room’s walls rather than feel confined by them. Instead, every place I’ve lived has been swathed in landlord white (apart from one [...]
It’s been a cruel and unusual wait since I wrote my Accounting Theory exam in March. The results were released today. I held my breath waiting for the news … and exhaled with a huge sigh of relief. I passed! Yippee! Huzzah! Woohoo!
So that’s eighteen exams behind me. Phew. With the luxury of 20/20 hindsight, [...]
Today is Dia do Trabalhador (Labour Day) in Portugal, a day to reflect on how we work and why.
In a country where time pressures are virtually non-existent it’s easy to get confused about work ethics. As I’ve been struggling to learn Portuguese over the last few months I’ve discovered a few hidden translation secrets. For [...]
