
no frills are the best frills
First meal out in a weekend full of treating ourselves because we are both a year older within a few days of each other. We

A note about The English
When you live in forrin, i.e. somewhere that is not the British Isles, and somebody inevitably notices that you are British when you open your

At the zoo
This is a note about the whole tourism thing.I’m in the middle of a (hopefully huge) set of cartoons (see the post before this one)

Caricaturas Portuguesas (e outras) nos Anos do Turismo
In the 1970s, cartoonist, illustrator and artist, João Abel Manta, drew a series of cartoons called Caricaturas Portuguesas dos Anos do Salazar (Portuguese Caricatures from

where did the bata go?
If, in the very olden days, you ever read my blog, even just once, you’d know I was fixated on the bata, the sleeveless housecoat

Twitter, twitter, twitter…
Once upon a time, twitter was a teensy widget where bloggers had jolly, silly conversations on the sidebar of our jolly, silly blogs. It was

Optimism? Pah!
Moments of optimism in a pessimist’s life are just exceptions for us to prove the rule that pessimism is the only way to live. When

Cataloguing ugly shoes
About a hundred years ago, I had a blog, which I kept up until the Special Operation on the Blogosphere by the United Federation of