Wednesday Algarve Geriatric Strollers The 2020's

  Two contributors to this week´s Silves composition; first of all, the leader Rod´s report, and then a little story from Yves. Here is Rod. WAGS WALK 9/12/2020 “ A modest report partly because it was a fairly modest walk and partly because it is the time of year when I am hijacked into doing Christmas Cards, the whole process of which seems to have been delayed this year. We gathered and set off from the Bensafrim Market Square Cafe in the hope that the Silves Bubble might be augmented by some representation from the Lagos or other Bubble. A forlorn hope it was however since the Lagos Bubble had elected to hold their Christmas Lunch on that same day and felt unable to walk, so a mere 4: John & Hazel, Yves and self, having accepted their kind invitation to join them for the lunch, set off at more or less the appropriate hour. The day was a bit damp but Hazel had forgotten to bring any rainwear and so it was that, after she had made a fruitless dash into the Bensafrim shop...

  Well I am really coming to the limits of my imagination when it comes to the theme of the last few weeks, 'Bubbles'. And all because Boris decided to name the small Covid-Proof groups we are permitted to gather in as such.  I believe according to nearby sources that in Portuguese the small allowable groups are called rather boringly - 'nucleo'!  Be that as it may, I will rely on someone with rather more linguistic skills than myself to argue for the Portuguese language terminology.     Unfortunately - and if you are of a sensitive disposition -read no further - I find myself forced into examining 'bubble(s)' as applied to human anatomy.      I asked John for inspiration for this week's Blog title, and he came up with 'Suds' being a collection of bubbles. My thoughts immediately descended to bubble-baths, and the opportunity to load some gratuitous photos showing naked flesh thinly veiled by bubbles, but I didn't want to encourage a 500+ wor...