MY Irish grandfather was an international referee so my mum caught the football bug early on and Match of the Day featured heavily in our household. She was a fierce Liverpool and
I RECENTLY moved to the centre of Fuengirola. I have really enjoyed the long walks along the paseo, visiting the castle, discovering new little streets, and the hustle and bustle of this
I DON’T advocate violence in any form but Mike Tyson has a point when he said ‘social media made you all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in
By Lisa Burgess I HAVE just left Malaga’s Materno Hospital after breast reconstruction surgery. It was a unique experience. The Head of Surgery, Doctor Torres Corpas and his team performed the surgery.
AN old proverb says ‘a wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it’. This pandemic has been an enormous struggle for every business. Some
By Lisa Burgess GLADSTONE said ‘justice delayed is justice denied’. I say this because I have heard of so many stories of injustice recently British residents being sent back from Spain without
CANCER can be a lonely business and I would not have got through it without my friends. I am a lucky girl indeed to have such wonderful people standing by me during
I WAS apprehensive attending La Cala medical clinic for vital blood tests and arrived in full PPE, imagining I would be entering a scene from Contagion. I need not have worried, everything
MY weight has always gone up and down – much like Elizabeth Taylor except she was much more beautiful and had more husbands than me. In my late teens, I weighed in
MENTAL health is often neglected in these dire times so to keep the brain firing on all cylinders I do frequent Zoom quizzes in Dulwich with my British, Irish & French friends.
I SAW with awe the sheer will and determination that 100-year-old Colonel Tom Moore showed when he began his 100 laps of the garden for the NHS. I glanced at my tiny
GREETINGS readers! Lisa Burgess here, newly minted restaurateur and now Olive Press columnist. Just to recap, in case you missed me on TV this year, I opened Joffrey’s French restaurant with my
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