Almost an hour and over 10 signatures later I find myself with a shiney new bank account for business purposes. I have noted that both accounts are accessible via the same home banking log-on, which is a mixed blessing – they both have the same name, so I’ll just have to be careful that I don’t do something with one account when I should use the other. Fiddly. Still it should keep me a little more organised, which is a good thing.

Stop reading, start speaking
Stop translating in your head and start speaking Italian for real with the only audio course that prompt you to speak.
I could not believe the number of forms I had to sign, often twice or three times and the resulting amount of documentation was impressive. Roll on bio-metric signatures. At least they should mean that everything can be done electronically, in theory.
Right, now I can get down to some work, finally.