Making the most of your tomatoes
By: PAUL McKAY features@algarveresident.com AUGUST IS traditionally the time of glut. No crop is better at producing more than we can cope with than the tomato bush. If grown well,
Monkey business
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com THE HUNT was on for a mischievous monkey who managed to sneak past security into New Delhi international airport in India. It forced staff to close
Nuisance neighbour
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A disorientated drunk in Holland could not understand why the key to his house would not work and when he managed to break in, he realised
Passionate kiss
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com A SELF-professed art lover stood trial on Tuesday accused of damaging a two million dollar painting in Marseille, France, by kissing it while wearing red lipstick.
Special delivery
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com WHEN CUSTOMS officers opened a package from Hong Kong marked “personal clothing”, they were shocked to find around 300 live scorpions and spiders. The insects, which
Sunday sacrilege
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com VANDALS ATTEMPTED to put a stop to Sunday church service across Philadelphia, US, by pouring glue into, and breaking off the keys inside, the locks. At
Cold feet could be costly
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com PEOPLE IN Mexico who walk out on their wedding day will have to pay their jilted partner compensation, if a local congressman’s proposal is passed. Jose
Lesbos lesbians
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com ISLANDERS FROM Lesbos are seeking to ban Greek gay rights groups from using the word lesbian in their names because they believe they are insulting their
Mr Rude
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com MR MEN, a popular British cartoon and television series, has a new character called Mr Rude, who speaks in a bad French accent. A source from
The bubbly side of life
By: MAURICE LEE features@algarveresident.com Maurice P Lee has lived in the Algarve for five years and has been visiting the region for 20 years. He is a retired Cellar Master

