Italy Holiday: Day 11

It’s my last night in Italy tonight. This time tomorrow I’ll be back in London, where I’m staying till Thursday. On Thur it’s back to my beloved Edinburgh and back to wrk on Friday.
Summary of holidays:

I must remember that it’s very relaxing out here - just like some expensive type of therapy. To remind myself [...]

Italy Holiday: Day 10

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Today was yet another slow one, to the point of being confronted with myself. Help
I went for a walk, thinking of the Cure - song, ‘The Top’
this top is the place where nobody goes
I walked up a hill and really was all by myself. Taking my journal (the one I had [...]

Italy Holiday: Day 09

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Today I took my mum and her hubby back to the airport - they should be back home by now.
This means I’m entering the final phase of my holiday - the three phases are thus:

Brief holiday with BF (last Fri-Sun)
Mix of work and family time (last Sun-today, i.e. Sat)
Time by myself to think&read [...]

Italy Holiday: Day 08

I’m now relaxed to the point of being horizontal, and slow, and calm. I’ve been in Italy for a week now, and haven’t been at work (in the office) since last Wednesday.
I don’t think I could get to the same degree of relaxation elsewhere. When I’m in Edinburgh, no matter what, I’ve always got [...]

Italy Holiday: Day 07

Today the weather was quite shit (again!). Fancy being in Italy and the weather is shit…
I had a geologist at the house today to look at the slope, and to see whether it’s so bad that it requires some kind of ‘fix’. A ‘fix’ in the form of strengthening of the foundations would of course [...]

Italy Holiday: Day 06

Today the weather was really shit. I did some work on the computer (wee new job that I’m doing, rubbishy disorganised agency, relatively shite pay, big huge brand = sole reason for doing it) and then just sat around doing nothing much at all (a bit of mopping the floor, tiny bit of tidying, etc.).
Tomorrow [...]

Italy Holiday: Day 04

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We cut the grass today with the shiny new strimmer. My mum’s husband was quite good at it - he just wouldn’t stop till the job was finished (great pleasure to work with. Why on earth is he a fucking fork-lift driver on a low wage? He’s got the drive and motivation to [...]

Italy Holiday: Day 03

Today I picked up my mum and her husband from the airport. We bought a petrol strimmer (for €€€ ) and tomorrow we’re going to start work.
The hot water is working now, but we’ve discovered a leak and a dead bird behind the door. The Internet is slow as fuck and unreliable.
Tomorrow, we’ll be [...]

Italy Holiday: Day 02

Today, on the second day of my holiday, I made the mistake of checking my work email.
Background info: Last week, I asked for the webmail URL for our email accounts, so that I could at least get on top of my inbox (by dealing with them from home) before going away.
Big mistake! When checking today, [...]

Italy Holiday: Day 01

We’ve safely arrived in Italy and got the hire car out, then went to LIDL to do some food shopping and, after popping in to two second-hand shops, drove up to the house.
It’s all good apart from:

there is a water leak
the hot water boiler won’t come on

The latter is especially annoying, as I’ve got my [...]