Author: Ms Editor

London 04/01/1990 Thursday Yesterday the papers arrived. Then I realised it was a trap. They pay £4.02 for 210 papers+publicity leaflets, and there were 4 streets to deliver them to: Rosa Alba, Northolme (mine), Aurdilan and Sotheby. 210 houses. I started at 10:30 on Rosa Alba, when I was walking down Aurdilan I bumped into…

London 01/01/1990 2:32 am Happy New Year! Tonight I was enchanted by the British! My mum and I went to Carmen’s flat (Angela is staying there while Carmen is away) and we stayed there. Estela, Zulene, Maira, Angela and her ex-husband, Angela’s sister and Angela’s other daughter were there. Me, Maira, Zu and Estela were…

London 30/12/1989 Saturday – Bad uncle Today is my bastard uncle’s birthday. I can talk about it now. One night, in Rio, when just me, my aunt and uncle were in the flat (my pregnant cousin and little Gabriel had moved to Friburgo) something awful happened. I was sleeping on my back, and woke up…

London 25/12/1989 Monday Crazy dream after crazy dream last night, I dreamt with everyone from year 8… At one point I got a lift with Renata’s mum and asked her who, after all, had won the elections… She looked at me and said to this day she didn’t know! Sometimes I ask myself why I…

London 21/12/1989 Thursday My mum got home last night and called the gas company. After that we had an argument. Not because of the gas. But because I don’t agree with anything she says. She’s a stubborn radical and a pain in the backside. She keeps reminding me she holds the purse strings and because…