My Goals for 2022
Happy New Year! Okay, it’s January the 17th already … Paul Young’s birthday; it’s amazing that I learned that fact about him when I was a teenager and still remember it. I wish... Read More
The Vila Mea Presepio
I was going to include this in my round up post but decided it deserved a post to itself! Towards the end of November some members of a community group in my village started building a ‘presepio... Read More
Rounding Up 2021: November and December
November NaNoWriMo The main thing going on in November was that I took part in – and won – NaNoWriMo. National Novel Writing Month – when you writing a 50,000 word novel during the 3... Read More
Rounding Up 2021: September and October
September September kicked off with a trip over the mountains to see my friend Andrea (the owner of the farm where I lived when I first moved to Portugal). It was an eventful trip as the car overheate... Read More
Rounding up 2021: July and August
I really must start doing better at this blogging lark …. after all the excitement of moving to Portugal and blogging about this new life a few times a month, it’s a pretty poor show to ha... Read More
A Kind of Rambling Roundup
I just felt the urge to blog today. Not sure what about, or why, but I found myself opening the blog site and typing … how strange! So life here carries on much the same as it has for the last y... Read More
Springtime in Portugal
Having lived here two years now – can you believe that? – I think I can safely say that spring is my favourite season in Portugal. Winter here isn’t as barren as in the UK – af... Read More
Surviving Lockdown #2
Two months into 2021, and I realised I hadn’t written anything about this year yet! The trouble is, after being lucky enough to get to the UK for Christmas, I came home to a Portugal plunged into di... Read More
Catching Up, part two: Days Out
So here is my second post to catch up on everything I did from June 2020 onwards!!! Once lockdown eased here in May I was keen to get out and explore the local area a bit, so this post will look at a ... Read More
Catching up, part one: The Animals
It’s been a long time since I wrote a blog post here … five months, to be precise. I’ve kept meaning to but somehow never found the time or had the inclination. It’s been a funny old time, in ... Read More
How a morning routine sorted my head out
In my last post I talked about how I’d finally decided I needed a routine to give my days some structure and help me feel like I am actually achieving something in life. And do you know what ... Read More
Monday morning, fresh start, new beginning
Warning – this is a long-winded, self-indulgent post about me me me, rather than about life in Portugal. You have my blessing to ignore it! I’ve blathered on here many times about how, despite lov... Read More
Taking things day by day
And so the lockdown continues … Nearly a month since I last wrote a blog post and nothing has changed, really. Here in Portugal we are into the third 15-day period of lockdown and it’s... Read More