“When the wife’s away, the mice will play”, or something like that. And she is indeed away, accompanying our daughter and a mountain of baggage to her first term at university abroad. A very exciting moment, the start of a new era in which I will have just the two stroppy teenagers at home rather […]
Archives for September 2018
“There are so many words I don’t know.”
Buondì. My, it’s been such a busy week, I’ve barely had time to squeeze in my own language studies! Which is a problem, as I’ve signed up for the A2 Swedish exam in Milan on Sat. 15th and so REALLY need to sort out my grammar. I’m probably beyond hope, though. While I’ve been studying […]
‘Sindrome da rientro’ and a new ‘Book of the Week’
I had a dreadful night last night. Pain in my ‘lower torso’ lead to a recurring dream in which I was searching for a toilet in my daughter’s new university but was unable to find one. Or if I could, it was in use, or it was wet and dirty, or there was no paper. […]
