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So anyway, while the picture may not be up to much, it does at least have the double merit of having actually been taken today (a bit of a novelty there, then), and being a fair and accurate representation of the things that I have spent the day in front of... my little laptop and my trusty Dicionário Português-Inglês, that I bought second-hand for 2,500 escudos (about £10) in February 1996 from the Livraria Trinidade on Lisbon's Rua da Trinidade - this little book has helped me earn thousands of pounds during the intervening years, and probably paid for my camera. So, for that alone, it deserves to be featured here.

Last year I reminisced about my first trip to Lisbon and paid a tribute to Bruce Berrien