Wednesday Algarve Geriatric Strollers The 2020's

  Bubbles in the Rain     You have all seen this, but perhaps never questioned why the bubbles form from some rain drops and not from others!  I have noticed that more often than not, the bubbles form on asphalt, such as used in roads and playgrounds. Not so much on flat concrete.  Sometimes on mud and low grass.  My grandfather, who was a bit of a savant used to say, "bubbles in the puddles it will rain all day".  But then where he lived, in England, it used to rain all day quite a lot.              Now I researched this and came up with some probable reasons from apparently learned professors:          Bubbles consist of a gas trapped by a liquid, where the liquid has a surface tension high enough to encapsulate the gas. This gives bubbles three ingredients: the liquid, the gas, and surface tension. The first ingredient, the liquid, is obviously  the rainwater . The second ingredie...

  Not Strictly Come WAGS, but the Lagos Bubble plus Mike and Jill meet for coffee every Saturday after market, at either Aqui Ha Gato or Delicias, as these fit the criteria of having not only decent TM's and coffee at local prices, but also have space and a terrace.     Myriam wanted to post this curiosity in the WAGS blog post for this week, but, I feel that there may be sensitive readers who might be appalled at the thought of having an animal on the table that is not prepared for consumption. Therefore a separate bloglet that will not be published officially, but left to the enlightened to discover for themselves.     While grouped in our separate tables of 3 and 3, to conform to the current legislation, and aware of the impending lockdown curfew, Myriam noticed a man at a nearby table with his pet Guinea pig ON THE TABLE, alive, and sitting on a towel, but placid. Of course she had to engage the man in conversation and photograph the fortunate creature. Fort...

  My Favourite Bubble Third week of Bubbles and we are going from strength to strength!  I hope this will be one of the last dissertations on various types of 'Bubble' by me, not just because I am running out of ideas - I'm not - but because hopefully the Lagos Bubble won't need quite so much padding to make it a decent read, now that we have completed the inaugural 4 person Bubble Walk. I am hoping Peter will be able to make it the regulation 5 at some stage, as to be fair, we are nor really burning up the countryside, nor troubling the many hills in the area unduly. Now here I may have to stray into APAPS Territory, so apologies in advance to John for Treading on his Eggshells. Above, the best Bubble I know, - short for Bubble and Squeak and to be found advertised on the chalk menu boards or on scraps of paper stuck in the windows, with cellotape, of the finest Greasy Spoons remaining in UK. Not for them the American and McDonald's driven 'Hash Browns' whi...