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The first paragraph to the first subheading, First encounters with Lisbon, considers that "Over the last three years we have developed family connections with Portugal, as my eldest son, Andrew, married a Portuguese woman and I now have a grandchild with Portuguese nationality."

In what country do your daughter-in-law and your granddaughter hold their citizenship?

Thank you!

Online sources correlate "levitate" with ascending without physical support to float in, move through air.

Did the spell checker, ;-{ without your consent or knowledge ;-{, displace your perhaps intended "levirate"?

English Wikipedia gives "levirate" the meaning of a man marrying his brother's widow.

Thank you!

The first paragraph to the first subheading, The display, advises us that "Take a look at the picture of the display, and you will see a butterfly made from tomatoes, bits of cauliflower, beans, potatoes and tomatoes, floral art using vegetables, quite simple really, but it required some delicacy of touch. My role? Well, this time I helped make the display. An artistic work!"

The entire display, especially the butterfly, appeals to me.

Does the butterfly ensure from a fanciful or from a real species?

baseball-cap, seems sturdy and more for formal wear
bucket-hat, nearly any occasion, from casual to formal.
dad-hat , is a flimsier cotton and word all the time,
trucker headwear casual gatherings, outdoor events, or running errands but most advice says "Don't wear a trucker hat to formal events like weddings, funerals, or business meetings".
Personally I wear a dad hat just about all the time.
What do you wear?

Your RedBubble product lines suggest a full wardrobe, with something for every body, something for every occasion:

Apron for all below-listed options;
Baseball cap, dad hat for all below-listed informal options;
Bucket hat for all below-listed options;
Leggings for formal A-line dress or chiffon-top options or for informal baseball-sleeved t-shirt, hoodie, sweatshirt, t-shirt, t-shirt dress options;
Mini-skirt with formal chiffon-top options or for informal baseball-sleeved t-shirt, hoodie, sweatshirt, t-shirt options;
Socks for mini skirt, t-shirt dress options.

What would be the difference between baseball-cap, bucket-hat, dad-hat and trucker headwear?

The Geni site has the Richard Whittington genealogy from his father backward paternally 10 generations:

William Whittington V (1310-1359)
William Whittington IV (1280-1332)
William Whittington III (1260-1280), relocated from Warwick to Newent, Gloucestershire, England
William Whittington II (1235-1283)
William de Whitynton (1210-?)
Guy de Witinton III (1180-?)
Guy de Vyteinsen II (1150-?), relocated from northern France to Warwick, Warwickshire, England
Guy de Vyteinsen (1120-?)
Richard de Vyteinsen (1090-?)
Guy de Vyteinsen (1060-?).

Jason Scott Wills, as manager of the Whittington information, identifies the first Guy de Vyteinsen (born 1060) as immigrating to England with William the Conqueror and as in The Doomsday Book. He identifies Vyteinsen as an ancient family name in northern France.

Vyteinsen looks Norse to me, as a Norse descendant and as an admirer of Icelandic author Ragnar Jónasson.

So Richard Whittington ultimately might have descended from Rollo (835?/870?-928?/933), Danish or Norwegian Viking-born ducal ancestor of William the Conqueror.

Might you have watched the 2022 television series Vikings? The character Rollo was part of the aforementioned plot.

They drunkn weĺl water, but privately carried on drinking alevand cider.

Maybe, but the task is more than my engineering skills, so I mustbsay that it would be hard.

The standard British classification of roads appliesvto all roads in mainland MAINLAND Britain.

We only had a00 few days. We saw what we could, but There was much to see.

The genealogies are not considered reliable, as possibly a levitate marriagevwasvinvolvedvsomewhere in one of the bloodlines.

As far as I know all fish parts are nutritionally the same.o

I have been looking at ArtsCow. There is more interior decor with products such as bed sheets.
It is a more intriket system. I'll leave it for the article.

The second paragraph to the first subheading, Who took over?, considers that "Drinking alcohol could not be avoided, as ale was safer than water, but many alehouses were closed down."

Did the English not drink water in the city and in the country?

Or might running-stream water have been deemed safe?

The second paragraph to the first subheading, The destruction of Hallsands, considers that "The villagers' forebears had chosen the site well. Situated at the foot of a sloping sandstone cliff it was separated from the sea by a ninety yard shingle beach which ensured that waves broke nearly three hundred feet from the village. Moreover, the shingle took the force of the waves and safely absorbed it. But in the 1890s in came the government. The shingle was excavated to provide concrete for a naval dockyard. The villagers' protests were in vain, the beach was stripped of much, though not all shingle, and though officialdom eventually decided to call a halt, the villagers knew that they were living on borrowed time."

Is it not possible re-shingle a de-shingled beach?