2017-06-28 17:31
18 000 kms away, I’m woken up by a call from my sister to tell me a friend in Portugal says I should check on my house because it’s in the path of huge fires. It’s 10.30am… Read More
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Building a house in Portugal. Trials and tribulations of living the dream in a foreign country. Enjoy this blog about food, Portugal, building works and cats and dogs.
2015-05-28 03:49
I always wanted a chihuahua that I could call chewy, as in chewbacca. A big name for a small dog. But when my neighbours turned up on my doorstep one morning carrying a hairy little two-tone… Read More
2015-05-16 08:05
I often get asked to rustle up an itinerary for bright people who have chosen Portugal as their holiday destination, as many expats do I’m sure. It’s like puttin… Read More
2015-04-30 08:52
How much you have to spend will be the main driver on this question, because naturally, the more you have the more choice there is. I’m certainly not saying that you want to live where… Read More
2015-04-16 06:02
Kevin McCloud said, at the end of Man Made Home.
Inevitably this blog would have something to say on the subject of Kevin McCloud, Grand Designs and Man Made Homes.
I only vaguely… Read More
2013-09-25 10:25
You know how when you’ve decided to buy a new car then the old one starts falling apart? Like it’s pissed off and seeking attention? That’s what’s happening in our ki… Read More
2013-09-17 13:27
Luxury and Portugal didn’t seem to me like very compatible bedfellows, but I was wrong. What bliss there is to be discovered here! Luxury; discreet, surprising, original, charming.
Her… Read More
2013-08-27 20:47
I know, I know. It’s been a long time. Life gets in the way sometimes.
At the end of the last series, Emma was in Australia, working, recovering from back injury and suffering from the… Read More
2013-05-21 12:51
I didn’t expect that a visit to “Little Portugal”, Petersham, Sydney would mean so much to me.
I must have been infected by the condition of the Portuguese diaspora &ndash&helli…Read More
2013-01-03 11:41
The One is here on holiday! We have been houseminding in a delightfully forgotten corner of Sydney, which despite owning a perfect little beach has up until recently remained unmolested by p… Read More
2012-12-28 00:19
You can take your snow and pretty lights, your Glühwein and hot puddings and you can stick it. Really, I’ve tried your northern hemisphere christmas and I’m not convinced.
A… Read More
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