Oddbean

Here's a strange thing, for the first time ever, we've just gone down to one car in the family. My Wifes' lease Tesla just got returned and rather than buy a new car, which is what we were going to do this time, we decided to stack sats. We live in the country, so public transport is very limited here.

Yeah, same, but you just make do. One of the reasons I don't grocery-shop discounts at 5 different stores every single day, like Germans usually do, is because I hardly ever have a car and I'm buying for 4 adults, so I just drive to the closest store and back.

can't even get delivery here in madeira, it was so weird after living in UK and on the continent still, riding 10km round trip to pick stuff up 2-3 times a week isn't that onerous, i just wish there was some decent beef i still have a heap of goat chops in the freezer, probably starting to get too old by now though, but i really don't like the 9 month old, still too stringy and pink for my taste

on the island? it's hard to say... I think the northeast region is the nicest, out past seixal and towards calheta in the higher altitude parts around there... most of the high altitude areas of this island are declared reserves, here in Sao Vicente, for example, there is basically no residences above about 500m above sea level in the case of disaster, the north side is where you want to be because it is naturally high rainfall and a lot of water, whereas if there is disaster, it will hurt the densest populated areas, which is ribeira brava/camara dos lobos/funchal and caniso, roughly speaking, where probably more than 2/3 of the population is located, and is entirely dependent on the levadas that bring water from the northern side and the big wilderness areas of the two main peaks of the island, east and west (the tallest one is 1.8km) honestly, i don't think it's the greatest place for natural disaster but for simple WW3 and other similar nazi germany style situation anywhere here is probably great

Oma and Opa are the german and dutch words for grandmother and grandfather, my father's parents were always known to me as Oma and Opa, almost never used their names Beatrix and Johannes... their siblings, i don't remember the word for uncle but for great aunty, "Tanta" or something like this i remember at the age of 4 years old when we would visit them (for a time we lived in an adjacent property) there would always be kisses for both Oma and Opa at greeting, one on each cheek

When our trusty Hyundai finally gasped it's final wheeze, I suggested we just not replace it, and Hubby thought I was nuts, but we've both gotten used to it. Just have to plan a bit more. 🤷‍♀️

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