Building repairs are child’s play
German artist Jan Vormann has taken an unusual step in making voluntary repair works to buildings in New York using children’s building blocks instead of conventional building materials. Exposed brick
Nature has its ways …
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. Everything has a life
Stuff for the memory store
By JENNY GRAINER features@algarveresident.com Jenny Grainer arrived in the Algarve to live, work and raise a family in 1968. She is a freelance writer and her book ‘Portugal and the
What a load of bull
An irate artist from Brazil has launched his own protest against the travelling Cow Parade exhibition currently on display in São Paulo by including his own randy bulls in the
Safety in Portugal
Dear Editor, We have lived in the Algarve for about a year now and we are really enjoying the country and its lovely people. This place is perfect in many
A sudden child
Belinda Waite, from Bampton, Devon, had been into her local hospital numerous times in the past nine months and says she was told she had a severe case of Irritable
Mother’s milk cheese
Daniel Angerer, co-owner with his wife, Lori, of Klee Brasserie in Manhattan, decided to make cheese from his wife’s breast milk, after their small home freezer ran out of space
Recycled bras for poor women
Hertsmere Borough Council collected 17,913 bras weighing over a tonne, which can now be reused by women in poorer countries. Councillor Jean Heywood, Environment Portfolio Holder, thanked everyone who had
The Motorhomers polemic Letter 2
Dear Editor, There has been much in the Algarve Resident about illegal camping by motorised caravans. It is important to stress that camping outside campsites IS illegal. It is also
The Motorhomers polemic Letter 1
Dear Editor, Correspondents Cindy Thomson and Rayner Otter wrote very convincingly in defence of the Snowgeese’s complaints (Algarve Resident edition February 12). They might well ponder, though, on the locals’