Last man standing
By Skip Bandele To the legions of football fans glued to their television screens everywhere in the world but Manchester itself, the sprawling city in the north west of England
It was all worthwhile…
By Jenny Grainer “I can’t complain that my life has ever been boring. I don’t ask for things to happen to me they just do.” These words are quoted at
Fifty shades of blue
By Skip Bandele Before I ‘unwrap’ this month’s topic, here’s a brief epitaph to my last “Sauerkraut, cod and Brussel sprouts” xenophobic, anti-Merkel rant in January: Although a comic novel
Teenage molesters
By Jenny Grainer When the whole Jimmy Savile exposé hit the newspaper, headlines and our television screens were full of his image – I’m sure I was not the only
Sauerkraut, Cod and Brussel Sprouts
By Skip Bandele Welcome to the 13th year of the 21st century. December passed pretty much without any major upheavals; the so-called end of the world contained within prophecies related
I’m dreaming of Christmas… just like the ones I used to know
By Richard Bailey How many of us have a dream of Christmas, as we used to know it, beginning around December 1 or even as early as Halloween and thereon
Life is never boring
I wrote a book about my life in Portugal and in the forward are two lines: ‘I can’t complain that my life has ever been boring. I don’t ask for
Shocked by news on British TV viewing
Dear Editor Having read your article in the December 7 issue regarding UK TV, we too on Tuesday December 4 discovered that Channel 5 was not transmitting. We talked to
Spanish-speaking doctors
Dear Editor, I know a lot of people complain about the Spanish-speaking doctors working at local health centres and how difficult it can be to understand them. A friend of
The horror of another senseless slaughter of innocent children
As an American in the Algarve I am sensitive to the profound difference between: murder by gunshot in America and murder by gunshot at almost any other place on Earth