I have received another e mail from the Italian journalist saying it was all a mistake and she was doing a piece on the mine,(they mine talcum powder) anyway she says there was no charge for the inclusion and it was all a misunderstanding ,strangely enough I saved the e mail asking for payment,so my friend Piero will sort it out in Turin,peacefully of course,I have included a photo of the portrait I painted of him, rum looking cove isn't he?
I was looking at apartments in Liguria around La Spezia,where we took Gina and Dino when they were young,they are still very expensive,it was ever thus in Italy,though I have yet to see scenery to rival Tuscany,and the alpine valleys of chisone and others in the area near Turin,where incidently the "talc" mine is located,and you will also find the Juventus training ground in the valley along with the palatial residence of the Agnelli family,the founders of Fiat cars.
The weather here at the moment has little to recommend it,raining on and off,though le blade and me were harking back to last summer and concluded that it was pretty good for an English summer,I think it may have been the cider fuelled bike rides that clinched it,notice none of that time trialling rubbish that Montana Mike indulges in in Kansas ,le blade being something of an amateur historian,he is knowlegable about the area,and likes to visit churches and such,which I consider monuments to outdated superstition but he is less judgemental and looks on them as historical monuments,in one small churchyard we noticed a small number of star of david stones
which must be a lesson in co existance/non existance!
Sheila has gone to the hairdressers she is currently giving a trial ,so I am home alone ,until this afternoon when along with le blade I shall be disrupting proceedings at the village hall bowling.
,or as Mr. Broccoli calls it "old mens marbles",very disrespectful of him.
Still no winter holiday in sight so maybe it will be cancelled this year.
I was looking at apartments in Liguria around La Spezia,where we took Gina and Dino when they were young,they are still very expensive,it was ever thus in Italy,though I have yet to see scenery to rival Tuscany,and the alpine valleys of chisone and others in the area near Turin,where incidently the "talc" mine is located,and you will also find the Juventus training ground in the valley along with the palatial residence of the Agnelli family,the founders of Fiat cars.
The weather here at the moment has little to recommend it,raining on and off,though le blade and me were harking back to last summer and concluded that it was pretty good for an English summer,I think it may have been the cider fuelled bike rides that clinched it,notice none of that time trialling rubbish that Montana Mike indulges in in Kansas ,le blade being something of an amateur historian,he is knowlegable about the area,and likes to visit churches and such,which I consider monuments to outdated superstition but he is less judgemental and looks on them as historical monuments,in one small churchyard we noticed a small number of star of david stones
which must be a lesson in co existance/non existance!
Sheila has gone to the hairdressers she is currently giving a trial ,so I am home alone ,until this afternoon when along with le blade I shall be disrupting proceedings at the village hall bowling.
,or as Mr. Broccoli calls it "old mens marbles",very disrespectful of him.
Still no winter holiday in sight so maybe it will be cancelled this year.
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