Renaissance Man

We go past Mourão's gallery on the way from church to the Adega, and go in whenever there's a new exhibition - the one there today was of about forty wooden busts, carved and pyrographed, of famous people from antiquity to modern Portuguese fado singers - done by a man who lives in Amareleja, José Pepo, who appears to be a real renaissance man - family doctor, economist, sociologist, accordion player, expert in Italian language and culture, director of a philarmonic band, rector of the Uni in Reguengos, medical journalist, public speaker, has a small mixed farm, is dedicated to carpentry, as well as having "the habit of daily reading on various themes" - or so says the accompanying leaflet.

Wonder if he's married?

Gratefuls:
- our traditional Sunday breakfast of grapefruit (from our own tree) and croissants, sitting outside
- cooler weather, we actually walked to town and back in the middle of the day, and it was bearable
- Sr Valente being in the Adega and getting folk singing loads of Cante (examples on my WhatsApp status)