Buondì. Since yesterday, and for goodnesss knows how long, we’re on perpetual weekend here in Bologna. My wife has donned overalls, covered the furniture in plastic sheets, and is right now rollering the walls of our living room with white paint (they were, I admit, in a terrible state…) With two extremely-frustrated adult children at […]
Archives for March 2020
Women’s Day-themed half-price ‘Book of the Week’
Buondì. Hope you had a pleasant weekend! But if not, at least that you, your family and friends, and the community you live in are corona virus-free. Here in Bologna we’re keeping calm and carrying on. There are infections, and there have been deaths, but we’re not amongst the unfortunate zones in northern Italy that […]
Why you should trash your rules
Buondì. I’m writing this with a strict time limit, as I have my fifth thirty-minute Spanish conversation lesson in less than two hours and I haven’t done any preparation for it. Obviously, it’s good practice to read through any notes the teacher makes, and ideally listen again to the audio recording of the lesson, if […]
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Buondì. Well, things are a little gloomy in Italy right now. Unless you’re a teenager, that is. In which case you have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to roam the streets until midnight each evening then sleep until lunchtime the next day (school’s out, due the virus worries…) But unfortunately, I’m not having such a great time […]
What is it with people and cats? Your views solicited.
Buondì. Gotta be brief today – the world’s ending and I have to get out and watch. However, there’s just time to meditate a little on the topic of cats, the courtyard where I live being full of them. As well as of cat people (and no, it’s not just ‘ladies’, there are ‘cat guys’, […]