Category: General / Misc.
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: 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
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
A new home in a locked down world
Gosh, how things can change in the space of a fortnight. Last time I wrote on my blog, I was preparing to move to my new home in Carregal do Sal. And indeed, that move has happened, and my new house i... Read More
Portuguese Blues
I was planning on writing a long post about Christmas back in the UK, and then another one on my first couple of weeks back in Portugal – but I’ve suddenly realised we are nearly at the end of Jan... Read More
Before Christmas
Gosh, it’s been six weeks since I last wrote in this blog! Lots to catch up on then …. This is the first of three blogs to bring you up to speed on my bizarre/crazy/dull (delete as applicable) lif... Read More
10 things I’ve learned from Pickle
The rain has stopped, the sun has come out and I’ve been able to take a couple of lovely long walks up on the mountain paths with Pickle this week. And while I was walking today I realised just ... Read More
From the heart
I’ve written lots on this blog about things I’ve been doing, people I meet, places I’ve visited, funny animal stories and so on. I’ve been trying to write about my mental health and well-being... Read More
Vignettes of life in Portugal
A funny thing happened yesterday. I’d had a very lazy morning, reading in bed, and had barely bothered to get dressed – grubby jeans, an even grubbier cardigan, Crocs and unbrushed hair. I was out... Read More
Just call me … The Cliffhanger!
As I don’t have a TV here, I spend my evenings (and occasional lunch breaks) either reading, watching stuff I’ve downloaded on Netflix or listening to podcasts. One of my favourite podcast... Read More