It's 3:00 a.m. on a Friday night in Faro, Portugal. If you happen to awake at this hour there are two things you might hear. First a sound that can be heard just about anywhere you might live, the sound of barking dogs.
Construction has already started on a 30m 5G Cell Phone Tower on Cerro de Alfeicao, East of Loule transforming the landscape and causing great concern to residents.
This bronze scultpture was stolen from the sculptors Atelier in the Algarve in the 1990's - does anyone recognise it, or seen it in recent years?
The Italian film director Frederico Fellini, when asked about his work, said "Don't tell me what I'm doing, I don't want to know!" Which neatly sums up adolescence, or in some cases, most of our lives.
A reader writes, "I am writing to share a deeply emotional and troubling incident that occurred on January 17th, 2025, in Aljezur. A stork's nest, along with the platform that supported it, was removed, leaving the storks that have called this place home for years without their cherished nesting spot.
As things to say just before you breathe your last, it is difficult to think of a more appropriate valediction than Bing Crosby's when he died on a golf course: "That was a great game of golf, fellas." His doctor had advised him to play only 9 holes, the doc obviously wasn't a fan of lengthy tee parties.
We must presume, or I must anyway, I am often accused of being presumptuous, that job opportunities were limited in the past. Before fire was discovered in the Early Stone Age, there weren't any firefighters, only people throwing the first stones. And before wheels started rolling off production lines, no cars travelled along non-existent roads, so becoming a driving instructor was a doomed ambition.
There is a sinister saying in Scotland, "I could murder a fish supper," and an even worse one, "I would kill for a battered fish and chips." Neither of these is meant to express anything other than a keen desire to tuck in to a hearty meal of which you approve. (Post-Brexit it is apparently illegal to use the words 'French fries' without getting your fingers burned.)
