Set fair...
We have a kitchen! Not one that works yet, but everything is in its place (apart from the lights, extractor and tap which, like the oven,...
Not in Italy, Annie...
After the unmitigated excitement of Ferragosto, things have calmed down a little on the holiday front though there has been some...
Hooray! hooray! it's a holi-holiday
Yesterday was Ferragosto, one of the important holidays of the year in Italy, so like any self-respecting Brit on a bank holiday, we...
Sofa so good
Another couple of days of fairly routine activity, with the odd jaunt here and there to break the predictability. I always find it...
There is such a thing as society...
Things seem to be picking up pace on the house front, with significant steps forward – even if not an awful lot is to show for them. If...
A change is as good as a rest
Yes, a whole week since the last post so what can have caused the hiatus? The short and very far from interesting answer is that the past...
Dreams are made of this
Today has been a quiet, stay at home day, which is just as well after the action filled social whirl of yesterday - so where to begin? I...
Make mine a half
It has been a significant couple of days, perhaps not so much for us but certainly for the civic life of Monte San Pietrangeli and...
Sure and steady
The three days since our lunch at the beach have been ones of new students, house stuff and the amazing disappearing tortoise. Before we...
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside
After the double whammy of la carta d’identica and the car, what could possibly match up to those highpoints of our life in MSP? The...
