E-book experience

Eee by gum, as they have been known to utter in deepest darkest Yorkshire, I've been exploring the infinite expanse that is the e-book market (got carried away a little - the e-market is far from expansive), having installed a thing called Mobipocket reader on my trusty Pocket PC. I also … [Read more...]

Popular demand

After having been advised, very nicely, that my blog looks better but seems to be rather pallid, I fired up my sophisticated css editor program and used its colour picker to select a new wallpaper colour. This sledgehammer-nut approach has left my blog posts with a subtle shade of green under … [Read more...]

Messing around

You may have noticed that I've been playing with a new template for this blog, with varying degrees of success. I now seem to have got the commenting system sorted out and will be adding back some old bits and pieces over the next few days or so.The reason for the change? Well, the new … [Read more...]

Don’t go to the post office today

Don't even think about going to the post office today. Our local post office is under attack. There is a queue of currently not-so-legal immigrants waiting to hand in, I think, their 'regularisation kits' so they can become legal residents in Italy.There are so many hopefuls that … [Read more...]

A chocolate drink

Our wondeful neighbour brought round some Chocolate liquer for us to try. Boy was it good! Dangerously good. I could happily drink glasses of the stuff - I did in fact manage to drink three glasses and felt a wee bit wobbly as a result.Wonderful stuff! 'Made in Italy' at its best! … [Read more...]