Tag Archives: Portugal

A PICTURE [OR TWO] IS BETTER ……ETC ETC ETC ………

If you look South from our apartment in Portugal you might see something like this.

If you go out of the front door and turn right and walk for about five minutes you might come across something like this.

The second picture is more representative of the weather.
We rent out the apartment if we aren’t there.
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MAGIC

Magic is wherever you want to find it.

White magic at the marina in Lagos, Portugal.

Black magic on the road to Sesmarias, Portugal.

Black and white magic at the marina in Lagos, Portugal.

The result of magic? Cabril, Portugal.
(Peabrain! I’ve never seen you look so handsome. Lo,TG Ed)
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THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY ……..

I had such a lovely time at Penfold’s and Tango’s mountain hideaway eating open sandwiches, mending the kitchen and encouraging a grass mowing ethic, that I nearly forget why I was there – the pursuit of the Wild Gingernut.
I wandered far and wide in my search carrying a knotted hankie tied to a stick ………. [...]

I’M NOT TOTALLY CONVINCED …….

……. about the efficacy of withdrawal from the Interweave.

As Lo, she is a terrible Goddess will confirm, this is a true likeness of me after several days of being pampered by Tango in the house that Penfold built, with little or no contact with Interweave World. Oh well, I had assumed that there was some [...]

EXCITING NEWS!

When the vicious Gingernut Cox was introduced to this country by a thoughtless tourist early in the last century

not only did thumbs suffer but the humble Wild Gingernut was driven to extinction. The interloper will stop at nothing to get at the food it craves.
However, Archie informed me yesterday that gingernuts still live in the [...]

BE VERY WARY OF THE CASSOWARY

A few years ago the TG and I visited a small zoo, just outside Figueira da Foz in Portugal.
I don’t really like zoos, but this was quite nice – plenty of space for most of the animals, and a large proportion of the inhabitants was bird life – flying around and swimming on ponds. [...]

GET KNITTING

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Normally at this time of year, Lo the terrible Goddess and I go to southern Portugal to escape the British winter. Unfortunately there’s too much going on to be able to manage it this year.

So, can you please all start knitting me stuff so that I don’t freeze to death – thanks. [Please let 70’s [...]

SHOES

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I have a favourite pair of shoes. I bought them in Portugal several years ago and wear them nearly everyday.

For some reason beyond me, Lo, she is a terrible Goddess insists that they live outside the door to the apartment. Of course I comply with this absurd dictate, as I am a true acolyte.
What amazes [...]