Author: Ms Editor

London 14/11/1989 Tuesday Tomorrow is a very historic day for my country! I’d give a year of my life (or more) to be there. My God, how am I missing out on this crucial episode of my country’s history? How I wish I could be there. Yesterday I saw fog for the first time in…

London 12/11/1989 Sunday Yesterday, after going out for a walk in the park nearby (Clissold Park), with my mum, and some shopping, I did a massive spring clean of the flat. It must have been quite something as I’ve lost 2kg from Friday to Saturday! The Brazilians who live upstairs are Marco and Heloisa. The…

London 11/11/1989 Saturday Carmen arrived last night, bringing news, hot from the press, Veja, Casseta, JB, O Globo… The election has become the joke of the century! Sarney, wanting to topple Collor, asked Silvio Santos to put himself forward as a candidate. The idiot accepted it! The PMB candidate sold his ‘sigla’ (acronym) to Silvio…

London 09/11/1989 Thursday We have a place to live and we start moving tomorrow. Carmen is due to arrive tomorrow too. My mum went to see it on her own, so I don’t know what I’ll be moving into. All I know is that it’s one-bedroom, split level, on the Piccadilly Line, near Arsenal Station.…

London 07/11/1989 Tuesday Diva leaves this evening. On Sunday the three of us went to Spitalfields Market where they sell everything, very cheaply. It was incredibly busy, hard work walking around. We then went to Pizza Hut (I had called on Saturday night and Patricia spoke to a manager who told me to go there)…