let’s get cooking
By: ROSEMARY LADLE AFTER THE culinary excesses of the festive season and countless resolutions to lose a pound or three, it may not be the best time of year to
The angel and the star
When I was a child, Twelfth Night always came too soon, although by then the tree was losing its needles and some glass baubles had been broken. Wax candles clipped
Trust in the future
By: BILL BLEVINS Financial Correspondent, Blevins Franks financial@portugalresident.com TRUSTS HAVE been a favourite vehicle in financial planning and asset protection for centuries. Tax mitigation is often the key element in
Century old Christmas card received
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A CHRISTMAS card that was sent 93 years ago has finally arrived at its destination in the town of Oberlin, Kansas, in the US. The card,
Not so fat Santa
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A SANTA in Edinburgh, Scotland, has refused to stuff his suit with a pillow because it may promote childhood obesity. The thin Santa said that children
Tree blunder
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com RESIDENTS IN Latvia were given permission to cut their own Christmas trees down for free but forest rangers soon chased them away to protect the protected
Peace and tolerance
By: MARGARET BROWN margaret@portugalresident.com WITH THE release of Gillian Gibbons from a Sudanese jail having served eight days of a short sentence for allowing a school teddy bear to be
No ho ho ho
A SANTA Claus in an Australian shopping centre was allegedly fired last week for saying “ho ho ho”, after employment company Westaff, had asked its Santas to say “ha ha
Footie manager gets Foot in Mouth
SACKED ENGLAND football manager, Steve McClaren, fought off tough competition from other nominees including US President George W Bush to win the Foot in Mouth award on Tuesday from the
Toilet trauma
A MAN spent nearly four days trapped inside a men’s toilet with no food or mobile phone at a lawn bowling club near the Scottish city of Aberdeen. When the