First Published 10 September 2018 Last updated 04 April 2022 Songs grouped by theme, to help me remember them!!! Sand & Water playlist Na beira do mar Beira mar iôiô Beira mar iáiá Eu não vou no mar (Mestre Zé Baiano) Sobrado de mamãe é debaixo d’água (Mestre Marrom) Ô…
Learning the guitar – 4 Years of progress in one page!
Learning the guitar – 3 Years of progress in one page! 12 January 2018 I learned classical guitar for about 6 months when I was 15 years old, back in Brasilia. Long enough to develop callouses (which have long faded away) and to get frustrated because I wasn’t learning any…
Protected: Capoeira and Sexual Assault
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Calories per minute – some data analysis
20th of September 2021 I got an early birthday present for my 50th birthday, a new watch, back in June. I wanted not to have to take my phone with me to track my activities/listen to music and that’s what my dear husband got me: A Garmin Vívoactive 4S. On…
Capoeira: Afro-Brazilian Dance of Freedom Podcast
17th of September, 2021 Today Puma Camillê came to visit us @ Dance Attic!!! We had a very intense, unique and fun Capoeira/Vogue class and then a roda. 17th of April, 2021 I heard this podcast and it brought home the things that make me love Capoeira so much: the…
Twelve Covid-19 Capoeira Sequences
Twelve Covid-19 Capoeira Sequences 22 August 2020 I’ve been filming myself doing some of the sequences from Mestre Poncianinho’s online class during lockdown so that I can study and practice them regularly, and have a few sequences in my body that I can easily access at the right time during…
Lockdown YouTube Fitness Videos
First published 24th of September 2020 Last update: 20 March 2021 Lockdown YouTube Fitness Videos I’ve done a few fitness DVDs over the years: T25, Insanity, Ashtanga Yoga with David Swenson, Rodney Yee, Zumba… and I am a fan of them. No need to go to a gym and, once…
Three new albums by Carlo Alexandre
Listen while you read… I got message from Carlo Alexandre (Kabula) on my Facebook Messenger this morning, here’s an extract: ” […] I am very happy to say that I have 3 newly released albums on Bandcamp, two in February 2020 and another one on this month. Have a listen:…
Injuries Timeline
First published: 02 March 2018 Main Injuries Timeline I Started jogging 13 Sept 2008 then up to 4km by Jan 2009. Mostly doing 5km twice a week during 2009 and then started longer jogs of 6-7km twice a week from Feb 2010. First hip injury was caused by it, or…
COVID-19
London 26 March 2020 London has been on lock down since Monday 23rd of March 2020 due to the coronavirus, a particularly virulent strain, named COVID-19. As I type this schools are closed, supermarket shelves are empty, people are working from home, not working at all or are otherwise overworking…