AT least once a year the horses have their full VOT – that’s Vet On T’job to us Tykes.
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HOW many people’s dream life would be to spend the day fishing in the ocean off Barbados while converting a beach house into a bar and restaurant?
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WELL, IT’S getting a lot hotter now up here in the Alentejo and the afternoon breeze is very welcome.
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JUST our luck that four of our guests should turn up as a team of builders was creating havoc on our approach road.
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WE’VE had our first guests in the downstairs apartment.
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IT’S all go on the farms and vegetable plots out here, with the spring ‘harvest’ coming to the fore.
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IT IS hard to guess how many young Englishwomen settled overseas after the last world war. It must be many thousands.
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THERE isn’t a great deal of new employment in the Alentejo other than in building and in allied trades.
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Life in Portugal: Heavy planting
WE’RE in the midst of springtime, with wild flowers coming up everywhere around the place.more
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Ex-pats: I’m missing good Yorkshire humour
TIGHTS, Marks and Spencer and a good Tyke laugh are what Anne Ratcliffe misses most about England.more
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MIKE Ward has been away from Huddersfield for more than 30 years now, but his memories of the area are undiminished.
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I KNOW I’ve banged on about the country seclusion we have out here – peace and quiet and all things natural.
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WITH the coming of this warmer weather there is much activity among the birds out here.
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IT’S always lovely to hear from readers in far-off lands and Burton, South Australia, fits the ‘far-off land’ bill perfectly.
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ONCE again the reach of the Daily Examiner is demonstrated to know no bounds!
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Ex-pat GRAHAM DENBY continues his tales as he and wife Ruth forge a new life in Portugal. Today: Grooming the horses
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AFTER 30 years at Almondbury Junior School, John Birkett went into semi-retirement from teaching two years ago and had little or no idea of what lay ahead.
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HAVING just watched on TV the weather problems in your region, it would be nice to bring in a little cheer from the Costa del Sol.
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Ex-pat GRAHAM DENBY continues his series on how he and his wife Ruth have forged a new life for themselves in Portugal. Today: the shopping experience
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Ex-pat GRAHAM DENBY continues his series on creating a new life in sunny Portugal. Today: the big move
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