We are mourning our dead brothers and sisters ...

We will never forget this Good Friday. 287 victims up to now. Many white coffins with children, a 6 months old baby with his mum....Our hearts are bleeding...Jesus, where were you then? We are suffering on the Cross with you now...

I'm still here...

Dear Friends,

I'm writing from a very old laptop via a very slow Internet connection. So I'll be brief. Thanks for all your concerned messages. I'm alive and well. So are my family and friends. Abruzzo is many miles away from my home town which is in the North of Italy, so we have been unaffected by the earthquake, physically at least! We are all shocked and we suffer with Abruzzo, a lovely region of natural and historical beauty and great people. The earthquake was a terrible disaster, as you have surely seen on the news, over 250 people have been found dead among the rubbles, many of them children and young people. Over 1000 casualties and thousands and thousands of people have lost all their possessions, including their homes. After three days of searching I've managed to get hold of a friend of mine who lives in L'Aquila. He, his wife and children are safe, but they've lost everything. They're left with their pyjamas and live under a tent provided by the Italian firefighters. But they are alive. Live is so short, let's live it properly day by day. These catastrophes teach us that and more. Bless you all.

Going Home ...

In a few hours I will be jetting off to Italy where I will spend the next two weeks visiting my family, friends, relaxing (hope so!) and enjoying the sunshine (fingers crossed!). I’m not sure I will be able to blog or even connect to the Internet from there as I’ve got a new laptop I cannot use yet! So if you don’t hear from me and I don’t visit your journals, please do not think I’ve deserted you but that the technology has deserted ME!
Have a wonderful Easter and enjoy the few days of holidays
CIAO!

George Clooney NAKED!!!!!!!!!

APRIL'S FOOL !!!!!

(What were you thinking of, naughty girls??)

Mutton dressed as Lamb?

Last Friday in a moment of absolutely madness I bought myself a leather jacket (see above, although it looks much better "live" than in the picture!). I’ve wanted a leather jacket for quite a long time but never got one. I’m not very good at buying clothes for myself, mainly because I don’t have much time to shop around and therefore I end up with nice items but not matching together. I’m also very susceptible to my family’s opinions so to be sure I wear rather “normal” (not to say plain clothes). Also working from home does not encourage me to get “tarted up” (as my son says) unless I go out for an interpreting job or for an evening out. To cut a long story short, I’m here looking at my new leather jacket and I’m in a dilemma: Am I too old for it? Shall I return it to the shop? It’s lovely and soft and beautifully cut but all in all it looks like a biker’s jacket and maybe it’s a bit too “young” for me. As notSupermum would say, I’m on the wrong side of 40 and I wonder if I could run the risk of being the so called “mutton dressed as lamb”.

Do you think there is an age limit for wearing leather jackets?

Earth Hour

The lovely Kia of http://www.italiancozycorner.be/Blog.html has just reminded me of

Earth Hour.

Tonight March 28th 2009, at 8.30 pm (wherever you are), WWF is encouraging us all to turn our lights off for an Earth Hour (so 20:30 to 21:30), in protest against the inaction of governments on the issue of climate change. And to show how easy it is to do something about it.

Around 50 million people took part last year. In 2009, WWF want this to be 1 billion.

Just ONE small thing can make a BIG difference.

See http://www.earthhour.org/home

Let’s try it, shall we?

See what happens if you sleep around !!

It's ALWAYS the kids that suffer!!

Her Name is Debra!

Better than Zonkey, I suppose…