Buondì. I think it’s fair to say that most people who know me would describe me as an industrious person, usually busy doing something, not prone to sitting around. Vegetating, for example in front of the TV, is not really my thing. I like to be achieving something! And yet, lately… perhaps because of the […]

Buondì. I have a new smartphone. I expect you know what a hassle that can be: transferring apps, signing into things with long-fogotten usernames and passwords, etc. It’s taken me several days to get things back to ‘normal’, so I can read my newspapers, listen to my favourite radio stations, and easily check, no matter […]

Buondì. Done with last week’s Free Trial Lesson Offer (it’s over, so don’t bother emailing to plead that you missed it because…), this week I have an ‘eBook of the week’ for you! It’s all ‘sell, sell, sell’ around here, isn’t it? Well not really… Last week I was giving something away, and this week […]

Buondì. I don’t usually email on Sundays, as I’m too busy in the kitchen: washing the dishes, preparing lunch, and making the dough for tonight’s pizza. However, needs must! So here’s a quick reminder – the Free Trial Online Language Lesson offer ends TONIGHT!! Get a 30-minute, one-to-one, online lesson with a native-speaker teacher of […]

(This article, or something extremely like it, was first published during our ‘FREE Trial Online Italian Lesson’ offer back in February 2020. But what I wrote then is still true now, so here it is once more! Things will be back to normal next week.) Buondì. Time’s running out to book your free online Italian […]

Buondì. (N.b. this rant is not directed at anyone in particular, and certainly not at any of the 128 people who wrote to me yesterday with their ebook issues.) British club members will likely remember the sitcom ‘Allo ‘Allo!, which ran for nine series from 1982 to 1992. For the rest of you, this was […]

(The articles I’ll be publishing this week are similar to those published in November 2020, at the time of our previous Free Trial Lesson Offer. They worked well then, so I’ll be taking a break and catching up on other work. Things’ll be back to normal on Monday 15th February.) Buondì. As mentioned on Friday, […]

Buondì. My Italian brother-in-law runs a pizzeria, and two other successful restaurants, in the seaside town of Rimini (the Romans called it Ariminum.) Which is to be found on Italy’s Adriatic coast, about two thirds of the way up the Italian ‘leg’, just about where the curve starts around towards the east, next stop Venice, […]

Buondì. One step forward, two steps back. Ever get that feeling? I bet you do! It was also the title of a book by Lenin, apparently. Though he was writing about vexing divisions in the Communist party, thirteen or fourteen years before the 1917-18 revolution. That’s by the by, of course. The more I know […]

Buondì. It’s been a week or two since I updated you about my progress improving my chess game. The lessons available for paid users of the Chess.com app are excellent. Sadly, with the free version you can only do one a week, but because I shelled out for a year’s subscription, I’m able to do […]