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Showing posts with label Good Things in Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Good Things in Italy. Show all posts
Saturday, August 19, 2017

Routine

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So, Annamaria has very kindly offered to help me rototill the entire Big Dry Patch. I'm going to do it in beds around the trees so they...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Strength and virtue - a good place to start again

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DAY-um! I knew I sort of liked this guy. (And no, not for the obvious reasons.) He's actually a lot like many of the people I grew ...
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Saturday, March 14, 2015

Bonfire Night

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It just occurred to me that I never got around to posting the photos of Bonfire Night. In England, they commemorate the night of the Gunpo...
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Successful experiment

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In the photo of my sitting room below, you will see that in the hearth there is a grill for cooking meat. This is apparently still a very...
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Saturday, January 03, 2015

A stranger place than I thought...

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It turns out that Norcia and the Sibillini mountains are a much, much stranger place than I had thought at first. I've spent way too ...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Nope, no vocations crisis over here...

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There are a lot of reasons I live here and not in Angloland. One of which is the superabundance of monasteries, and the fact that the Itali...
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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Found some new nuns

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So, I've been feeling the urge for a while now. Been looking around locally for some nice Benedictines to go visit and I've found th...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Oh crap!

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Italy in a nutshell I'm almost out of booze! The local supermarket has started selling Lambrusco and it's so good, I have to a...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Broccoli

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The other day I was overjoyed to see that the wonderful Fibonacci broccoli is back in the shops. Italy's food production is determine...
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Sunday, December 09, 2012

Weird, removed from reality and spooky; indeed, slightly creepy

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I've figured it out: Venice is Miss Havisham. Indeed, if there ever were a place hiding a mad old woman living in a crumbling palace,...
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Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Venice!!!

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I'm having a "Yay, I didn't die of cancer!" celebratory holiday in Venice. When I was too sick to move off the sofa wit...
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Monday, November 19, 2012

Real nuns!

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Doing real nun-work! Who knew? I suspect there are actually quite a few real nuns left in Italy, quietly and un-glamorously doing the Mas...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

I missed this year's Gardone conference

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...for chemo For frick-ing CHEMO!! Am I mad? Am I annoyed by this? Why yes. Yes, I am. The lectures. At most conferences, the lecture period...
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Sunday, July 10, 2011

Elf n' Safety?

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Went for an evening stroll last night to the beach promenade. They have a sort of market there on summer weekends where you can buy things l...
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Monday, December 06, 2010

Almost finished another one this weekend

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A study by Michelangelo for one of his ignudi for the Sistine Chapel. I've solved the problem of finding inexpensive prints of the great...
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Monday, October 18, 2010

See Italy's treasures

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Art Tuesdays (issue no. 129/2010 / October 7, 2010) New initiatives launched by MiBAC How to attract new visitors to Italy's state museu...

Passel of new blogs

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Huh. Turns out there's a whole world of Italian Trad Catholic bloggers out there. Who knew? Here's one on vocations that looks prett...
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Friday, October 15, 2010

I'm so dumb

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This wasn't for grinding grain... It's an olive press. I wrote, "The big round things were for grinding grain. You put a wooden...

And I bet it's LOUD!

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That thing has to be made with a whole sheep.

The Restoration

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Giotto Crucifix Restored. (ANSA) - Florence, October 14 - A five-year restoration of a crucifix from the Florence church of Ognissanti (All ...