

Gather round
I will, at the outset, apologise to both my devoted readers for the paucity of today’s offering. After last week’s blog equivalent of...


Fresh air and fun
Those of you who have been with me since the outset may recall that one of the stipulations we made ourselves when starting the hunt for...


Cutting crew
Despite the thunderstorms continuing to keep us on our toes earlier in the week, I’m pleased to say that finally we have been blessed...


Ain't no stopping us now
Like the weather, this has been a week of peaks, troughs and various stages in between. While you might think this prevents our daily...


Mixing it up
After last week’s exciting escapades, this week has proved, thankfully, to be a little more humdrum. Maybe not that humdrum, though, as...


The Life Aquatic
After a fairly routine start to the week on Monday, things took an unexpectedly dramatic turn on Tuesday. It wasn’t the one-off lesson I...


Summer Knights
It’s been a week of do-si-doing: a few steps forward, a few back and quite a bit of spinning around, and one that started and finished...


A walk on the wild side
This was to be the week then, when our residency at La Casa dei Due Baffi was finally to be settled. After two visits to the Comune,...


A song and dance
Of the two pieces of unfinished business last week – namely the elusive painter and the enigmatic Comune - one, I am pleased to say, has...


There's no place like home
After a rather uneventful time last week, these past seven days have been brim full of action – well, almost. The painter is still awol;...





























