Tanguy

This is just a quick entry about a French comedy called 'Tanguy'. It's about this guy who just will not leave home and how his parents try just about everything to get him out of their house.Some Italian friends of ours recommended it and we loved it! So much that we bought a copy. … [Read more...]

Vampires upstairs

My other half has just shouted 'basta' from the bedroom, again. 'Basta' means 'enough' or in this case 'cut it out'. Why did she shout this? Were you to blame?Don't worry, I'll be getting to the answers to these questions in a little while. First, dear reader, you need to know something about … [Read more...]

Looking inwards and around

OK, things do seem to be a little bleak at the moment for me, what with baby being ill often and this leading to not enough time to do as much as I would like, but it's easy to be negative. There are lots of positive things going on in my life and living in Italy is one of them. Another good thing … [Read more...]

Marty

Seeing as a reader of this blog, Christian Ventrello, has now become a dad and we had an agreement that if he posted a photo of his new addition, I would do the same, here are some photos of our little one Marty. They were all taken around Christmas 2004. He was having a 'swolleneye' episode … [Read more...]

Wi-Fi – not.

I have a rather neat wireless connection to the www. Well, correction, I did have a rather neat wireless connection until today. I switched on the PC, waited for a few hours while it booted up. Then I tried to check my mail. A no connection to the server message came up. Ah ha! The server is down. … [Read more...]