On Day 3, I attended a mix bag of sessions. The first session celebrated the poems of Drummond. In the next session Stephen Greenblatt and James Shapiro, shared their love of Shakespeare. Later in the day, Granta provided the space for two British writers to reflect on what being British means. Two Middle Eastern writers…
On day two, I covered some new Brazilian writers, who use death as their underlying theme, some interviews, in particular Liz Calder, President of the Paraty Festival, James Shapiro, Shakespearean scholar and the author Jonathan Franzen. Granta magazine in Brazil also announced the winners of their new writer’s competition. The day finished with a large…
New year’s eve is a strange night. On the one hand you think of past new year’s when you have been out and about – the fun you had and what you may promised yourself. This year, I did not want to move from the sofa. The memory of last year’s fireworks on the old…
Mrs Silva found the owl in August 2011. It was lying on a road in the Tavira area. It had been hit by a car and had a broken wing. At first it seemed the owl would never fly again. She carefully picked up the owl which was just a little bigger than her small…
As part of the Tavira Limitada movement, an event was organised on the 9th June 2011, to officially open a multilingual shelf in the children’s library in Tavira. The shelf is for children to find a place where they can find books in their native language. Some books were contributed by Liz Beaupied from the…
When I was growing up in Birmingham UK, my only sanctuary seemed to be books and Kings Heath library. I now live in Tavira, Portugal and still have my love of books and reading. I have had a little wake up call this week after visiting the children’s library in Tavira. Its a wonderful, colourful…
Over the years, I have often been glad to see the end of difficult years and the start of a new year. This last year, however, has been so good in so many ways, I feel as though a few more days would not go amiss. I spent three hours this morning potting up tomatoes, peppers, cauliflowers,…
I read in The Resident this week that this area is 50% down on rain levels. Its bizzarre looking at the floods in the UK and wishing for rain here. http://www.algarveresident.com/story.asp?XID=33997