Last night I went to a meeting of a book club run by my friend Lola — she is American and her real name is Dee, but Lola is her tango name so that’s what I call her!

Anyway, there were some really interesting women there and the conversation was fast flowing and varied. People read poetry, including one by the iconic Argentine writer Jose Luis Borges, which was challenging even in English!

Here’s a photo of us all except Venetia, who took the photo, and the next photo has her smiling face in it too. On the left is Jeanette, who is from Australia. When she divorced and her children left home, she took out a bank loan, sold her house and embarked on half a year of travel around the world! And now, six months later, she’s at it again and that’s how she found herself in Buenos Aires. Now that’s badassery!

I expect to attend a lot of events with this lovely group in 2019.