Stop Putting Words in My Mouth!

STOP PUTTING WORDS IN MY MOUTH!Somewhere in England, there is a ventriloquist buried with his puppet.  I'm not sure of the exact location, and obviously neither of them is going to tell me now.  Do they still speak to one another, I wonder?

Will Prince Charming Be Welcome?

WILL PRINCE CHARMING BE WELCOME?A famous man... I'll be forgetting my own name next... once said, "I can stand anything except a succession of indistinguishable days."  Sounds like he wouldn't cope well with lockdowns.   

I'll Stick to my Grandfather Clock

I'LL STICK TO MY GRANDFATHER CLOCKOn the edge of a black hole in space, time stops.  If we move away after a few minutes, a million years might have elapsed in the rest of the universe.  I know what you're thinking, and it sounds crazy to me as well.  There must be lots of mad scientists roaming around avoiding captivity.

There's Trouble in Store

THERE'S TROUBLE IN STOREWorking in a large organisation must be quite depressing at times.  Just think - whenever a famous person dies, someone at Wikipedia has to change all the verbs into the past tense.  While fighting back tears, if they admired the deceased. Is there such a publication as Who Was Who?

There's Still a Lot of Coffee in Brazil

THERE'S STILL A LOT OF COFFEE IN BRAZILI once ate dinner in a restaurant called Chez David - where else? - in a market town in southern France called Castelnaudary, famous for a rich slow-cooked casserole known as cassoulet, of which it claims to be the world capital. 

Can you Paint a Pandemic?

CAN YOU PAINT A PANDEMIC?Someone once gave me a useful piece of advice about art.  "When you see a Picasso painting of a woman with eyes on both sides of her nose, you know it's a fake."  

Dancing to the Music of Time

DANCING TO THE MUSIC OF TIMEIt was a young woman who started it.  She began to dance 'fervently' in a street in Strasbourg in France, and before anyone knew it, a group of other young women had joined in. 

Religious Tourism – Part 3, Islamites

MertolaPart 3. In my books on tourism potentials in the Algarve and the whole of Portugal, I mentioned religious tourism as something with great profit, to come. In the book RESSURGIR, on my chapter about the FUTURE OF TOURISM, I repeated it.