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BBQ’d Piglet on Market Day
Market day in Portugal is always an interesting and colourful experience… Beginning to feel faint from the intense heat I paused in the shade of a large tree to people-watch. I smiled as tourists,...
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Telling Porkies
When my son and fiancée moved to their new home in the UK they inherited a neglected, but nevertheless healthy rhubarb plant which had masses of thick juicy stalks. I was green with envy as the plant...
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Portugal: Growing Fruit and Vegetables – September
August passed with a blink of an eye and before I realised, it was September. Unfortunately, I failed in my personal challenge to record my “August” gardening “ups and downs” along with photographic...
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White insects in soil…what are they?
There is never a dull moment on Piglet’s Plot. I’ve discovered yet another bug has taken up residence in my gourmet garden so I need some help from my gardening buddies please! While emptying the soil...
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Is Social Media and the Latest Technology “Gizmo” Driving YOU Crazy?
When I bought my Blackberry, I thought about the 30-year business I ran with 1800 employees, all without a cell phone that plays music, takes videos, pictures and communicates with Facebook and...
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Portugal: Growing Fruit and Vegetables – October
Orange peppers are still growing in October! Here we are hurtling towards the end of October enjoying the sun when autumn arrived quite suddenly. One minute we are swimming in the sea and enjoying...
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Creative Writing Course in the Algarve
Holiday Inn, Armação de Pêra The NaNoWriMo participants are now under “starters orders” as they eagerly await, or not, the first of November to arrive when the challenges begins. I am not feeling quite...
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A Visit to the Dentist – I’m SUCH a Coward!
A third molar. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A few weeks ago I broke one of my back molars on some crusty Portuguese bread. For the uninitiated the crusts are rock hard so lethal if you have crowns, false...
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Portugal: Growing Fruit and Vegetables – November
My passion for gardening has taken a back seat during November due to my trip to France, illness and of course the National Novel Writing 30 day challenge. However, much to my surprise everything, bar...
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Farófias com Leite Creme –À la Piglet
This traditional Portuguese recipe is courtesy of Fernanda I’m always keen to try Portuguese recipes so when Fernanda kindly shared this recipe I thought I would experiment. I tried to discover what...
View ArticlePortugal: Growing Fruit and Vegetables in Containers – July
My container gardening diary continues... The temperatures in July, after scorching winds, soared into the 30Cs and certainly tested my tenacity and ability to grow fruit and vegetables in containers....
View ArticleSilves Medieval Fair 2012 – Feira Medieval Silves
The Medieval Fair held in the historic town of Silves is our favourite event of the year. In fact, we enjoy it so much it's always the first social event flagged, in advance, on our Calender. If you...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit
The theme for this week's WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is"Free Spirit" Sitting on the shoreline Looking out to sea. Body boarding or fishing The challenge sets me free A free spirit in the water At...
View ArticleA Simple Way to Propagate Hibiscus
Hibiscus are my favourite plants (shrubs) because they are SO easy to grow and reward me with an abundance of beautiful flowers throughout the year. Unable to grow them in England I was naturally...
View ArticleEveryday Life in the Algarve
But not as we know it! Perhaps looking at this photograph you would be forgiven for thinking the shot was taken in the heart of the country, and not in a small town in the Western Algarve. When I...
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