Putting Eggs in one basket
By: PAUL McKAY features@algarveresident.com Teacher, Paul McKay, left London to live a self-sufficient existence in the Monchique hills with his partner Martyn. He keeps an assortment of animals and grows
Trigger unhappy
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com AN ELDERLY man in the US injured himself when he attempted to loosen a stiff wheel nut by shooting it with his gun. He had been
A lesson in democracy
By MIKE JOHNSON features@algarveresident.com Mike Johnson is a freelance journalist who worked in the Algarve for more than 20 years. He now lives in Plymouth in the UK and comments
Mechanical malfunctions
By PAUL MCKAY features@algarveresident.com Teacher, Paul McKay, left London to live a self-sufficient existence in the Monchique hills with his partner Martyn. He keeps an assortment of animals and grows
The edge of paranoia
By MARGARET BROWN features@algarveresident.com Margaret Brown is one of the Algarve Resident’s longest standing contributors and has lived in the Algarve for more than 20 years. Having complained this year
Blind man’s hole in one
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A BLIND elderly man in the US has achieved a dream of a lifetime by sinking a hole in one at a golf course in Florida.
Courgettes, marrows and summer squash
By: PAUL McKAY features@algarveresident.com Teacher, Paul Mckay, left London to live a self-sufficient existence in the Monchique hills with his partner Martyn. He keeps an assortment of animals and grows
Nazi stamps
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com GERMAN postal Company Deutsche Post has inadvertently issued stamps bearing the image of Adolf Hitler’s former deputy, Rudolf Hess. A company spokesman said that 20 stamps
Remote control
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com POLICE IN Australia declared a state of emergency when an inebriated man threatened to blow up half a city with his television remote control last May.
Space junk
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com A FARMER in Australia’s remote northern outback claims to have found what he believes is space junk from a rocket used to launch communications satellites. James