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Italy from the Inside

Whilst hunting about on Technorati, I came across this blog – Italy from the Inside, and there is some interesting stuff there. It’s also written by an Italian Microsoft employee, in English. Yet more proof that a) Italian’s go places and b) they certainly can, and do, learn English. I shall be pointing my Media […]

Italian Paragraphs

I don’t know if others have noticed this, and I imagine they have, but many Italian writers construct some of the longest paragraphs I have ever seen. These paragraphs, which are seemingly never ending walls of text, tend to put me off reading Italian newspapers and books.

I’m a Virtual MEP

A week or so ago I got an email through this blog from a certain Jonty who, I think, goes to Shrewsbury school.  Shrewsbury school, if you did not know, and those outside of the UK probably will not know, is one of England’s oldest public schools.  I should perhaps explain that ‘public’ schools in […]

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 […]

Writing to Ambassadors, Consuls and the like

Once people know that you are English and that you speak Italian, you often end up with some interesting requests for assistance.  Indeed, the other day, someone asked me to help her write a letter of invitation to the ambassador and the consul of a certain large country, which happens to be the origin of […]

Just a little more

I think I’m coming to the point where I need to sleep on the rest of my little story.  It’s developing quite well and I’m taking it just about where I want it to go.  I don’t think I’ll finish this evening, but I do think I will finish it in time for my ‘client’.  […]

Still writing

The young one is still in the land of nod, and it’s even starting to cool down a little.  I’m still scribbling away and the ideas are starting to flow quite nicely now.  I’ve even had an idea as to how to bring my short tale to an end.  It’s not a bad ending, one […]

I’m writing

My other half has gone out to dinner with some of her work colleagues, to celebrate a birthday, so I’m at home on babysitting duty.  Only, said baby collapsed on the sofa after a hard day at the nursery.  Leaving me with no baby to sit for.  A rare moments peace and quiet.  Even our […]

A plug, again

This is a plug for the next enthralling (uneditied, warts and all) installment of my most probably never to be published/finished novel which you can find here. There is also a rather hopeful link sitting under the good reads list of links on this blog. You never know. If you have a (quite a) few […]