We are no friends of CO2, but we aren't friends of Victorian excesses either, (Queen Victoria, remember, the patron saint of the Victori...

A Stanford U. research group has calculated how clean, renewable energy could replace dirty energy worldwide (links below). The gist: - The ...

  This is a picture from the Congress hearing with Cassidy Hutchinson yesterday, the former White House aid: Judging by the ties of the peop...

 You haven't heard from us in a while--for various reasons, obviously, such as slosh, long covid, more slosh induced by long covid, plus...

Einstein here with his beloved granddaughter Evelyn  

Nobody is talking about this, for there's a touching touch of political incorrectness. Ahem...did you observe that the wait...

Lunch is prepared in the garden  

.   And here is what Andrew McGregor has to say about this (scroll down for the lyrics): Musical notes...

  This afternoon We were on our habitual afternoon walk which gets us downtown and back in an hour. Note the December flowers on the right. ...

Yes, we are still bedridden -- did we fail to mention that Michael and his partner Chang caught Covid (?) -- so we are cutting our way throu...

We've had a wave alert for the Praia do Norte yesterday, with estimated breakers of 10 meters. The sheep were characteristically unimpre...

 

 

Alcobaça holds a weekly market on Saturday. It's in walking distance, so we walked the pitoresco walk to the venue along the Alcoa, the ...

(Clip by our friend Charlie:) There were raindrops, that's why everybody huddles under the pergola. The evening became very ...

September was a bit rainy, but the summer is back. October is the season for big waves... ...which has started now (the season...

  Note the bamboo on the deck to the left of the gate (click on the pic for enlargement)

The newly acquired Tesla MODEL Y (one of the first delivered to Europe) in front of the Alcobaça monastery. Lunch at "Meat"...

Lava from the active volcano dripping into an irrigation pool on La Palma