Jose, the Brazilian cameraman just sent me an email saying that it rained, oh how it rained. But he managed to shoot the entire event and made a nice plastic raincoat for the camera.
Marlete's brother helped orient him.
Lacerda was ill and Genis ad Lacerda went to the pyramid later, which is a massive structure by the river.
It was all over by 7am and I am very curious to see how it looked.
Was it meant to be, or not? Will I use the footage? We will see. I will not be able to see the tapes for two weeks when someone will bring it back to the UK as Sedex Courier from there is mighty slow.
Well, documentaries are real life and that is what really happened.
We see.
As an aside, more people speak Portuguese who walk past my window in London, than any other language. Sometimes it has the sssshhhhh noise of Portugal and others the nasal singing of Brazilians, but for sure, there are squillions of them.

Today spring sprung and it was divine and I did a few tapes, looking at every nook and cranny and wondering how we will tell this story. I have not contacted the cameraman who shot yesterday. I am too nervous in case he says that it all went horribly wrong and some local Brazilian crooks made off with our rental camera at 4am.

So I did my window boxes and tidied out little front garden and the gnomes are out and happy and defending the realm. I love them. So many gnomes are very creepy looking. Mine are cute, playing musical instruments, and one is carrying a basket  - full of magical and endearing things no doubt.