Is It Just Me?

By: Jenny Grainer jenny.grainer@portugalresident.com WHATEVER HAPPENED to dressing tables? They seemed to have disappeared from our bedrooms. Do women have to do everything in the bathroom these days? I will

BY: Skip Bandele Email: skip.bandele@portugalresident.com HAPPY CHRISTMAS! Yes, we have done it again, reached that time of year, scoffed at decorations going up for sale in shops and supermarkets at

By Jenny Grainer THE NEW hypermarket across the road from me is rapidly drawing toward its opening day and men and machines are working all out. No doubt there is

By JENNY GRAINER WE RECENTLY joined the satellite club and can now surf the ‘free to air’ channels. It isn’t our first foray into the system – when we lived

Skip Bandele reflects on life and his world — as he sees it I THINK I will wear a balaclava the next time I visit my bank – it seems

By Jenny Grainer MAYBE IT’S my age, but after over 35 years of living here, I honestly do feel it has been the longest and hottest summer I can ever

Skip Bandele reflects on life and his world – as he sees it SHORTLY AFTER I was born, John F Kennedy was felled by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas, and

Skip Bandele reflects on life and his world – as he sees it. LAST MONTH, the oldest person in the world died at the age of 116. Maria Esther de

Skip Bandele reflects on life and his world — as he sees it SHE IS called Didi, the Arabic word for ‘girl from the country’. I have known her since

Skip Bandele reflects on life and his world – as he sees it: WHY DO some girls insist on going out in the evening wearing off-the-shoulder tops, only to spend