… in every mans life when he has to leave the shelter of his parents wing and fly into the wilderness to find his own worms. Over the last few years I’ve been camping in my parents house in the hills in Portugal – acting as part time janitor, surly estate agent and general loitering [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
What are the chances…
March 24, 2008 – 9:23 am
…of meeting the ‘woman of your dreams’ in the blogiverse? An interesting and challenging question to which there is no simple answer – but if a mathematical solution was attempted by my calculations it would go something like this….. If x is the possibility then x=1x(fmb section rating)x(average technorati authority)x(average daily new visitors)/(number of blogs [...]
Portuguese highway code – lesson 1
March 19, 2008 – 9:11 am
Lesson 1 – Indicators These should generally be used with hesitancy and caution usually to display a recent action (ie to be used just after making a turn or overtaking another vehicle). They can also be used to indicate a state of impatience and frustration on motorways – normally associated with large imported German cars [...]
It’s either really close…
March 15, 2008 – 12:32 pm
…or really really big. For those of you who frequent my flickr pages you’ll probably know that I have a fascination with wind turbines. The windmills on the ridge of hills above my house are a recent addition to the landscape and as far as I am concerned are extremely welcome… These however are the [...]
Snogging all over the world…
March 13, 2008 – 10:25 pm
…not content with bold and fearless *PDAs across continental Europe the fabulous blogging duo Penfold and Tango have decided to wrangle the Tamil Tigers and canoodle their way across Ceylon. Armed only with a small china teacup and a slightly dented blue surfboard they plan to loaf, lounge and lay about in various hammocks across [...]
Can you guess what it is competition…?
March 10, 2008 – 12:26 pm
…please send your answers to thisisthehubofawindmillpropeller@annoydaddypapersurfer.com I didn’t surf today. Still snogging…
Stranger than fiction…
March 7, 2008 – 7:26 pm
…it’s been a strange week – I’ve eaten a Francesinha in a cobbled side street in Lisbon, I’ve drank Irish cider and listened to lilting Gaelic strings in the bustling bars of Dublin and I’ve walked beneath the rugged red cliffs of the Algarve next to the sparkling blue water of the Atlantic. Now I’m [...]