Editor, Kevin Bagley is right, we do not want visitors spreading the highly contagious Delta variant. Sky news did a in depth report from Brazil where Covid-19 is out of control, raising the point that a new mutation (they do not, unlike the UK have the expertise to study new potential variants,) seemed to be killing pregnant women. Neither Portugal or UK wants that possible variant.
Also In your article “Anyone fancy a climber?”, Bougainvillea will not really grow up here, in the Algarve´s third level, serra but we do have a wonderful Russian vine which has beautiful white flowers, adored by bees, all summer at least. But it needs room.
D Taylor-Smith,
By email