Italian Rogue of the Week: Silvio Berlusconi

Well, dear Silvio Berlusconi really had to be the one who was awarded Italy Chronicles Italian Rogue of the Week booby prize after throwing Italy, Europe and the rest of the world into total and utter turmoil by causing Italy's caretaker Prime Minister Mario Monti to throw in the towel rather sooner … [Read more...]

SOLENOID INDUSTRY JOB OPPORTUNITY – Spam/scam

I almost love some scam emails.  If they weren't such a pest, they would make me laugh.  The title of this post refers to one such amusing, almost, piece of spam I recently received.  I mean, 'Solenoid Industry'?!  It almost shows imagination. I guess that by referring to a specific sector they … [Read more...]

I wanna job!

In order to fund camera equipment purchases I'd quite like to find a part-time writing job.  So, if you like my style and you think I can be of use, email me at al.p.roe [@]  gmail dot com and let me know. Stands back and waits to be showered with emails, er, hopefully.......... … [Read more...]

Are you zaskachu?

Apparently I'm not, yet, according to one of the odd comments left by what must have been quite a clever spam script.  It even managed to include my url in the comment. The  question is, 'Do I really want to be zaskachu?'.  I can't answer that, I don't know what the blazes the word means.  … [Read more...]

Interesting

I was a wee bit miffed that I could not email a post to my Wordpress hosted blog. Well, guess what? I don't need to email, because I can login and post directly from my wifi pocket pc. Wonderful! Now all I miss is the direct access to the html/css template, but I can do quite a lot of what I … [Read more...]

Apologies

Not been blogging enough due to other commitments (and an over energetic two year old!) - but I have not forgotten about this blog, however my future posts will be much shorter (and sweeter?!) from no on. Just like this one in actual fact. … [Read more...]

Proud to announce…..

.....that, finally, a real, and Milan based, Italian has left a comment on my blog. This is great - I really wanted some Italians to react in some way to my blatherings. This real Italian has a blog, here, and goes by the name of 'bread stick' - OK so he uses the Italian name which is 'grissino', … [Read more...]

How could it happen?

It's boiling hot here. Putting on a suit for work is a torture. The simple act of putting up three shelves caused yours truly to break out in sweat. So how the blazes can I have ended up with a sort of summer flu? Aches and pains, snotty and coughy. I'm feeling pretty groggy. I just don't understand … [Read more...]

Storms

The April storms have arrived a little late this year. Last night a heavy downpour was preceded by a spectacular lightening show. This evening the shy has been lighting up quite often as more lightening bolts do their thing. The storms here are quite drammatic and I rarely saw anything like them … [Read more...]

Paying for past vices

I used to love playing my music at rather loud levels - much to the disgust of my neighbours. My stereo back in the UK was seriously powerful - so powerful that when the neighbours started hammering on the front door, I used to think it was just part of the music. Well, I was young, free and, let's … [Read more...]

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