Recycling the human body
By: JENNY GRAINER jenny@portugalresident.com I’M RATHER proud of Portugal’s stance on recycling. Long gone are the days when we left kitchen refuse outside in buckets or, worse, in thin plastic
Real people make the best stories
By: JENNY GRAINER istjustme@portugalresident.com ONE OF my favourite pastimes is studying people. It’s a perfectly normal pastime for writers because people provide most of the inspiration they need to write.
The great divide
By: SKIP BANDELE skip@portugalresident.com LOOKING OUT of the window in June, one might very well have become concerned with climate change issues. Far from baking in the early summer sunshine,
Cheers! Make mine a vinho tinto, please
By: JENNY GRAINER jenny@portugalresident.com FREQUENTLY, I really do thank my Maker – especially allowing me to live in the beautiful Algarve where a Nanny State doesn’t try to control my
At home and abroad
By: Skip Bandele skip@portugalresident.com LAST MONTH, I tried to highlight the positive aspects of the annual interaction, between holidaymakers and the residents of the corresponding host country, but it won’t
U Turn on HRT
By: Jenny Grainer jenny@portugalresident.com The front page headline of The Daily Mail on Monday, April 9, of U-TURN ON THE RISKS OF HRT, caught my immediate attention and demanded I
Friday the 13th
By: Skip Bandele skip.bandele@portugalresident.com EXACTLY 44 years ago, I opened my big, blue eyes for the very first time in a maternity ward in Lagos. Hold on, before you start
Skinny lizzy or fat boy slim
By: Jenny Grainer jenny@portugalresident.com THERE SEEM’S to be a great deal of concern at the moment over young girls being too thin. Fashion houses have been asked to vet their
Gentlemen prefer blondes
By: Skip Bandele skip.bandele@portugalresident.com DO GENTLEMEN really prefer blondes? Let us have a look at that old cliché and the issue of age gaps – and I am not talking
What a corker!
By: Skip Bandele skip.bandele@portugalresident.com PORTUGAL – when you think about Europe’s south-westerly most country, holidays spring to mind – after all, Praia da Rocha in the Algarve was one of