One of the rules of blogging that I read once was, and I paraphrase, “never say that you’ve been away for a while.”

I’m going to have to break that rule because I have been away, and the changes have been pretty major.

For a start we’re no longer in Portugal, an opportunity arose in the UK that had to be taken, so this blog is more about life in the UK now. But we’ll still try to cover what is happening in both the UK and back home (nice that I consider Portugal ‘home’ even though it didn’t do us any favours).

One of the major stories of course is the Crise, or the Credit Crunch as it became known in the UK. Clearly now it appears that the economic downturn has been a long-term thing, and the poorer European countries were suffering effects long before the richer ones.

We can also take a look at crime (swap robberies for knife crime), technology, jobs and opportunities, politics (of course), football, photography and the weather. So there’s still plenty to talk about.

Don’t worry, it won’t all be doom and gloom, there’s plenty to smile about, even in the depths of a global recession.