Desperately seeking dressing tables
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
Spreading the news
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
A bridge too far
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
Free to air
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
Beyond the evil
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
It’s been a hot one
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
It’s a mad, bad, world
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
When I’m 64
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
Man’s best friend
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
Summer loving and the art of hangover management
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