London weekends, Algarve skies
By: Paul McKay Contact: mckay@portugalresident.com THIS WEEK, London basked in an Algarvean spring. The sun emerged early in the morning, shone brightly for most of the day, offering blue skies
Friday the 13th
By: Skip Bandele skip.bandele@portugalresident.com EXACTLY 44 years ago, I opened my big, blue eyes for the very first time in a maternity ward in Lagos. Hold on, before you start
News update
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Plane curse
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com NORTHWEST AIRLINES, in the US, cancelled a flight after the pilot cursed at a passenger. The pilot was confronted after he had been swearing loudly in
Record breaker
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com ELSIE MCLEAN has become the oldest golfer to make a hole-in-one on a regulation course. The 102-year-old thought that she had lost her ball on a
Snake search
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com ONE OF the leading search engines, Google, had their fair share of trouble when they could not find a three-foot python called Kaiser, after it escaped
Lent is a time for reflection
By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com READING THROUGH our copy of the Daily Telegraph last week, with its innumerable supplements, I came across several pages on “What to do at Easter”. Among
Paw delight
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com A WOMAN in the US is lucky to be alive, after a piece of apple became lodged in her throat and she began to choke. Despite
Welcome sweet springtime
By: Margaret Brown
The seeds of hope
By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com DURING THE 40 days of Lent, the Luz Bay end of St.Vincent’s parish has been offering a York Course entitled, Can we build a better World?