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
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
A pilgrimage of churches
By: MARGARET BROWN margaret@portugalresident.com HAVING JUST returned from a rural odyssey covering an area south from Monsaraz and never far from the Spanish border to visit old churches, we concluded
Christmas at St Vincent’s Church of England Chaplaincy
Lessons and Carols: Dec 16 – St. Luke’s, Monte Palhagueira at 6.30pm; Dec 22 Hotel Paraiso, Albuferia Christingle Service for Children: Dec 18 – Praia da Luz at 4pm Midnight
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
Time of the Gypsies party
By: PAULO SILVESTRE
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
Opening the church doors
By: MARGARET BROWN margaret@portugalresident.com A mixed group of interested people has been offered an introduction to basic Theology by Reverend Haynes Hubbard to meet on Thursday mornings either at the
UK animal protection group in Algarve for neutering project
BRITISH-BASED animal protection group Kismet Account recently carried out its largest stray animal neutering project in the Algarve. A group of unpaid, voluntary, self funding vets, nurses and animal welfare
Annoyed and embarrassed
By: FR HAYNES HUBBARD Annoyed and embarrassed We have been in Portugal six months now and I have just returned from the post office with my baby son Caspian, where