Can someone explain to me the need for four hundred Euro trainers? Not limited edition collectibles, not one of a kind prototypes, not highly engineered and specifically manufactured sports shoes for particular disciplines in their top tier, not thirty year old rarities: just swanky shiny trainers, manufactured in China in the tens or hundreds of […]

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Inês’ latest little giggle is to throw the brake lever on the pram, particularly when we are crossing a busy road, which sends the three of us lurching forwards like a bunch of idiots caught unaware on an escalator when some comedian presses the emergency stop. I’d also find it hilarious if it wasn’t for […]

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One of the idiosyncrasies of Hispanic culture is how verbal communication is universally restricted to two levels of volume: one..or eleven. Level one is none of our concern as understandably it is the domain of whispered secrets between lovers, the passing over of a bit of verbal smut between work colleagues or the exchange of […]

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