Archives for December 2021

On Monday, my normally very reliable, elderly German motorbike refused to start. Probably the cold had got to the battery, I thought, while rushing to catch a passing bus – mask and Green Pass both now obligatory. I got to my hospital appointment on time, but the bus had been heated and I was overdressed […]

Buondì. I write a hundred and fifty-six articles for OnlineItalianClub.com each year, and apart from the quarterly sales and the ‘free trial lesson offers in November and February, when I resuse copy to save time, they’re almost all original – at least a hundred articles a year, anyway. Obviously, there’s repetition – approaches to language […]

Buondì. I don’t know about you, but I’ve realised that I don’t handle stress at all well (I’m having problems with banks…) I wake up at four a.m. worrying, then can’t get to sleep again. During the day, I get physical symptoms – tingling, trembling, ‘fight or flight’ responses, that sort of thing. It’s not […]

Buondì. I’m desperately busy today, as it’s the first of the month (which is always heavy), as well as being an important day in a big reorganisation project (the various things that we do are moving to their own legal entities from today, rather than being all together in one company). Plus I have to […]