Boats and barnacles
By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com TWO WEEKS ago I wrote about the demolition and building works being carried out on the road to Lagos Marina. The old Palácio das Conservas, otherwise
Spring in the ‘Allgarve’
By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com THE TROUBLE with spring is that everything looks on the tatty side: clothes, house and kitchen cupboards, as well as what passes for a lawn (where
Algarve Animal Associations
LAGOS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY Monte Ruivo, Odiáxere, Lagos Tel 282 687 334 or email laps@sapo.pt Contact: Bridget Hicks In 1980, they were the first animal sanctuary to be established in
Welcome sweet springtime
By: Margaret Brown
Temptations over the Easter period
By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com WITH SUNDAY, April 8, still two weeks away and Easter eggs in glorious technicolour whichever way you turn, those who have foresworn chocolate during the 40
Bugs and Bernard Matthews
By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com THE SPEED with which the Bernard Matthews turkey enterprise was given an all clear after mass culling and disinfection has no equal where notifiable livestock diseases
Church is for all people everywhere
By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com ANY INSTITUTION comes in for criticism, senior executives make the decisions and the rest of us must work within those boundaries. So it is with the
Flares and frogs
By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com AS A diversion for the geriatric remnant, holidaying down Lagos way during January, the câmara laid on a firework display from Meia Praia, which attracted quite
Searching for winter warmth
By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com WHILE TODAY has been as warm as an English summer: that is – as it used to be 20 years ago – I doubt that our
Climate change and cuckoos
By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com THREE YEARS ago, we had to evacuate our home during the terrible fires that swept through the Algarve. Flames towered above the boundary wall, drowning out