Mixed Messaging
We’re staring at a huge environmental crisis, we are told every day by the media. If we don’t reduce carbon emissions drastically, the world is
Anyone else?
Every time I see people proclaiming that there’s no such thing as cancel culture I feel like losing my shit quite loudly at them. But
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