The living room this morning, with the new dining table, made to order...

 

  One day later, and somebody said, "Let there be light!" Charlie working on the medicine cupboard in the main room, with the hall...

 Remember our post of Nov 15?  Well, we are progressing with our acres:  ...

It's a surfer's paradise with Guiness Book of Records surf. It was fairly quiet today, although the waves still topped four meters o...

Our friend Maud sends this:  

 This is where we live since three weeks:

...with Charlie and Michael walking on the boardwalk of Nazaré :  

 ...what with all the money trouble we were in. Instead we got a big villa with acres of oak hardwood floor: ...

  [Verse 1] Feel my heartbeat It's the same old feeling coming over me tonight Me tonight Feel it buzzing ...

  So, we are now in place since 11 days, and there's a lot of progress.  One observation: the locals are very special, and the more...

The south-easterly view from our bedroom on a rainy Sunday morning Chang and our new friend Charlie in the off-kitchen area (still on Sun...

Yes, we finally did it--did it precipitously, since Chang feared that the Lusitanians wouldn't let us back in, what with the excessive F...

Yes, we know, it won’t happen, it’s unimaginable--in the same way that his win over Hillary was unimaginable... ...but wouldn’t it be nice i...

 

Our friend Glenn sends this: Donald Trump tried to go after former McCain Campaign Strategist Steve Schmidt, the head of The Lincoln Project...

  (Look it up if you don't get it, "Trump's losses")

Brother, or sister, if you care: we've finished the house hunt, and are targeting a place atop a hill in Alcobaça, which is 6 km from th...

"Les temps modernes" --named after Charlie Chaplin's film -- was a magazine founded by Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul S...

We've been at it for quite a while, Plato's "Symposium." But now we've hooked up with David Cantero , the famous comic...