Man of Roma

Man of Roma writes a thoughtful blog. And he writes it very well, in my not so humble (see previous post) opinion. I wish I could write in Italian as well as he writes in English. One day, one day.He even knew Montezemolo and says he is a good chap. This is interesting because it goes some … [Read more...]

Supercilious Git

One of my commenters accused me of being pretentious, and she may have a point. But I wonder how many other people think that I'm a bit of a supercilious git? Probably quite a few. I have a slight suspicion that I may sometimes come across as being so, so if my writing evokes such a thought, … [Read more...]

800 Posts!

I started off this blog back in January 2005 - this is the first ever post, and I've just noticed that my previous post was the eight hundredth. Sounds quite a large number.I'm quite surprised that I've managed to keep this thing going for so long! Who knows when I will run out of steam.Oh … [Read more...]

DIESEL

DIESEL

Nope, I'm not going to waffle on about eco friendly fuels, but in my continuing micro-attempt to raise the feel-good factor for Italy in these troubled times, I'm going to have a look at an Italian brand, which, at first, for quite a few years, I did not know was Italian. Not a surprise; I did not … [Read more...]

New Fields

This is interesting. Well, it is for me. I'm putting together a short English course which will revolve around the theme of sports management. This is a new 'field' for me, but through the magic of the world wide web, I'm starting to get an angle on this quite specialist management discipline, … [Read more...]