

Venetian Times
Although I left you last week with the four of us enjoying aperitivi on the terrazzo at Totò, after two weeks or so of fine and sunny...


Sitting pretty
A week of bits and pieces, partly because that is what seems to happen around this time of year as things outside start demanding some...


Walk it off
After the tilling of the soil last week, I’m pleased to be able to say that the new plants rooted therein seem to be thriving, or at...


Working the land
While there has not been anything of great significance in the past week, there has been progress on a number of fronts. One thing, in...


Loud and clear
After the previous mammoth entry we are back to normal this week as we don’t actually seem to have made a mess of anything during the...


East, west...
It may be Easter Sunday, but the fact that it is also All Fools’ is ironically appropriate given some of the events of this past week,...


Still on the line...?
This week started off very promisingly, with several signs suggesting that spring, as they say, had definitely sprung. Not only were...


Morning coffee
Whilst Bella and Harry enjoyed last Sunday morning on the terrazzo, it was two or three days before things started becoming a bit more...


Stick it out
After what is about the closest we get in these pages to a cliff-hanger at the end of last week’s blog, I can now confirm that the Comune...


Give us a break
You may or may not take comfort from the knowledge that the weather forecast I mentioned last time was pretty accurate and the rain has...





























