Like peas in a pod
By: PAUL McKAY features@algarveresident.com LAST WEEKEND I visited a friend’s house near Salir and was inspired by his greenhouse (sad, I know). For many years we have been intending to
Monkey mourned
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com THE FIRST chimpanzee to learn sign language has died at the age of 42 of natural causes at research institute in Washington, US, where she lived.
Nut allergies
features@algarveresident.com A report has warned that pregnant women who do not eat nuts could leave their child susceptible to allergies. The report suggests that Britain’s allergy epidemic is being fuelled
Quality wine produced in Leiria prison
By: MAURICE LEE Cellar Master features@algarveresident.com LEIRIA PRISON inmates want to produce quality wine and sell it nationally as a branded product. The wine-making project is part of an ambitious
Speedy detour
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com AN ELDERLY woman on her way to a cemetery in Nuremberg, Germany, in her electric wheelchair decided to take a shortcut on the highway. To make
Survival of the fittest
By: MARGARET BROWN features@algarveresident.com TWO WEEKS ago, when a British Airways 747 clipped wing tips with a Sri Lankan Airbus 340 while taxiing fully loaded at Heathrow, my sympathy was
The importance of being oak
By: MAURICE LEE Cellar Master features@algarveresident.com IT WAS not my intention to write on oak this month. However, I received a few emails regarding my article on “Misleading notes that
The wonder of garlic
By: PAUL McKAY features@algarveresident.com MORE THAN almost any other vegetable, garlic can be regarded as one of nature’s wonders. It is said to be able to inhibit and kill bacteria,
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
About teenagers
By DR MICHAEL LOWRY features@algarveresident.com Dr Michael Lowry is an experienced parent and educator, who regularly visits his Algarve home in Tavira. His work over many years in universities has