Oct-2015

 

This is pure waffle, to send to family and maybe friends interested in what are doing.  I don’t find talking on the phone very easy, and even then it is only to one person.  I was thinking of phoning Julie to keep her up-to-date, but to give a broad, and I think interesting, flavor of life here, I thought it would be better to write it down.  It takes (me particularly) time, but that is what I have plenty of.  I thought of getting you to actually say whether you wanted any more episodes, but that would not be fair.  Getting you to actually say not to send any more would also be unfair.  So just junk it if you like, I quite understand.  I showed this to Amber, and she said it would be reasonably well received.  And you know Amber, if she thought it was rather naff she would say so.  So here it is.  Not important stuff, but just stuff that comes into my head at the time.

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Last Friday, as I was eating lunch, a tooth at the top right came loose, for no particular reason.  Oh bugger it I thought.  It wasn’t actually a tooth, but a white tooth-like bit with metal underneath and a long metal spike at the bottom.  Couldn’t work it back in.  After worrying about which dentist to go to, I chose a local one from the web, and went there with my buggy at lunchtime.  Tiny little room off the pavement, with rather dated looking kit, but a very nice young lady dentist.  She did the business in about 20 minutes, and now it is fine.  She charged 100 pesos, which is about £4!

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On the way back we nosed into a doorway which we knew was a Japanese cultural centre, and found a restaurant there, not sign-posted or advertised.  Amber went in to get their card, and it was full of people eating sushi etc.  So we will have to go there soon.  BA is like that, you never know what is going on in places.  They don’t do street signs to say there is a restaurant or whatever there.

Went shopping on the way back.  Our local supermarket, which is Chinese-run, is about 4 aisles, full of stuff.  There is one or two like this on every block.  Got some wine, champagne, gnocci, fruit-juice oranges, etc.  Everything costs so much more than it did a year ago.  I asked the girl at the till why it was so much, and she said it was because we had two bottles of rather expensive wine.  They were 80 pesos each, or £3.50!

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Cass is currently at 36 for a few days, and so in cousin John, who is going to do the floor in the dining room and downstairs loo with his friend Malik (who is heavily Rasta, but is actually Nigerian).

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Quite a lot of interest in the Australia-Argentina rugby semi-final, the lads done good,  But rather like in UK, it will be all forgotten about next week by the general public, who only care about football.

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The presidential elections went off rather smoothly and calmly, of which they are rather proud.   Scioli (Peronist) was only 38% vs 36% for Macri, the Buenos Aires mayor who got all our pavements (they were in a terribly state) re-done.  So there will be a run-off next month.

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This is turning out to be rather verbose.  Still, you can always junk it.  Or send a critique, if you dare.

Besos y abrazos, A & G