In the shed

Great Grandma's 85th birthday cake!

GG, TT and AA

Siena

Siena

Siena

New old desk for TT

Typical TT

Fiery Friend - awaiting installation

homework on the new old desk

I have finally succumbed to working in the shed again as my laptop is a bugger and won't upload images which is a real pain in the neck... any ideas as to why it won't upload are most welcome.


This last week has been chaotic to say the least, with children visiting friends, work meetings, hospital appointments, helping people move house and re-arranging our home to accommodate lots of lovely unwanted bits and bobs including an ancient sewing machine with foot tread (pics to come).  On the home front things are coming together slowly, the house is wonderfully messy and in need of a serious clean but the children are full of autumnal excitement, Halloween seems to be a big thing for a 10 year old!  We are hopeful that more work is coming our way here in Italy as this is where I really want to be,. not flitting to the UK every month.


The week ahead looks like this:   Olive picking, Olive picking, Olive picking, making Halloween biscuits, tidying, cleaning, working, Olive picking, Olive picking, working.


Big plans..........the jam jar embargo.. I have about 100 empty jars waiting to be filled with Passata however our tomatoes were a disaster this year and my jam jar stock is out of control.  I therefore plan to hide them from Gary so he thinks the problem has simply vanished!!  then magically I will feel them with yummy things at regular intervals such as jam, fruit in syrup, dried herbs etc.  I desperately need to get my pantry/kitchen cupboards inline as they are currently a miss mash of disordered clutter.


Big News... The wood burner is here and waiting the approval from our landlord, a long term loan from a friend this fiery friend will transform our lives, we just need the landylord to install it (not a simple task).


Big Dreams.. We may have found some land to share with friends where we can build a 'recycled' home here in the hills of Tuscany.


Here are few recent pics of our life here in Italy x