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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, already it's the 14th of December...how on earth did that happen?!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Summer seems like only yesterday, I was planning another swim over in the Cinque Terre!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The year has flown, but I expect you are all saying the same.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I haven't even finished making my Lavender bags, some of which need to be posted very soon and the Christmas cake only just in the oven!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And before you queen bakers out there tell me...I know it's late!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had a hitch with the base of my cake tin..... I can't find it!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Called by to see Laura this morning and got delayed, well actually I was enticed to stay for lunch.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It's like this, Laura asks if I would like to stay, I spend a second or two politely saying, "oh no I couldn't possibly", the next thing is I am sitting at their kitchen table tucking into their home grown borlotti beans served with the best olive oil I have ever tasted and lemon chicken!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Saying, "no" to Laura is something you just don't do and anyway, turning down her delicious food is pretty impossible!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We talked about the wonderful olive harvest, as well as Christmas amongst other topics.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">How shall we organise ourselves this year?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">They must come to ours to eat, give my favourite lady a rest.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I told them about my cake tin saga and how I had driven into town only to find a 20"or 28" tin, not the 23" I was after.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Laura disappeared to rummage in the kitchen above, returning with a brand new 26" tin!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So I have used that and for some strange reason, my mixture totally filled it!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Alberto asked if it is the fruit and nut cake with the icing I made last year, (he loves it), but of course, I will be giving some to them.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Thought about making two smaller cakes this year but somehow there is something rather nice about sharing one cake cut in half.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">The initials are surrounded with chain stitch decorated with a flower and leaves...exquisite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">My Nana loved sewing too always had something pretty on the go, a new dress for one of the little girls in the family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So here we are Hargs and me peacefully creating something new ever continuing to improve our surroundings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sit back, take pleasure from our day, enjoy a sip of one of Hargs best G&T's and a little something to nibble!</span></div>
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<br />Karen Hargadon-Feeneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01105245266265799053noreply@blogger.com0Tuscany, Italy43.7710513 11.24862080000002640.8155433 6.0850468000000264 46.726559300000005 16.412194800000027tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031057132663597373.post-45345428632744964652015-03-23T05:54:00.000-07:002016-05-13T05:18:39.288-07:00Louis XV1 ..will turn in his grave!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Following my introduction to the fabulous Swedish and French Decorating page, and the amazing subsequent flurry of 'likers' and decorators interested enough in commenting, (to the tune of 190!), on the two bedside tables I purchased, (very reasonably!), from a local antique market,........... I have decided to paint them! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I should take this opportunity to thank Diane Llewellen Grover so very much for suggesting I join the group in the first place and Meranda Devan who started it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fabulous to be part of a sensational community of inspiring women and men!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I spotted these two at Filetto Antique Market one is slightly taller has a marble top and shelf inside and the other is smaller but both seem related by numbered information on the back of the furniture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The fact was I didn't know anything about them until one of the ladies on the decorating page, (who used to import furniture), very kindly gave me the run down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They are apparently French, Louis XV1 style late 19th to first quarter of the 20thCentury and to quote my expert, a "beautiful find"!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well what transpired was me falling into a quandary as to what to do next...should I paint them as I had first been inspired to do using Annie Sloan's fab paint or leave them be, as a few of the Swedish and French Decorating group almost pleaded me to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or should I sell them, one or two had expressed a great desire to buy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I deliberated for some time at one stage deciding I should leave them as they are, however, I kept coming back to the fact that when I first clapped eyes on them, I saw them Annie Sloaned!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My dear friend Laura arrived in the meantime with her man Paul, having driven over from England with pots of precious Annie Sloan Provence paint for our kitchen walls and a couple of tins of the fab Country Grey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Laura agreed I should go with what I had intended and what's more, they are the perfect, maximum size Harg's and I can fit either side of our bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, last week I got down to it!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Setting myself up on our Roof Garden I stirred up the Original Chalk Paint for my base coat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whilst that coat dried I basked under the Tuscan sun, tapping away on my laptop filled with a terrific sense that I had, in fact done the right thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The most wonderful paint to work with, it was soon dry enough for me to put on my top coat of the beautiful Country Grey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I took photographs of the various stages becoming more and more excited as I worked!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sun warmed my back!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The next stage was to start sanding using fine sand paper, although I have to say, I had no real idea of what I was doing, it seemed instinctive but this was to be my very first piece of furniture... so very much an experiment, anything could happen!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I Loved the freedom of using the sand paper it allowed me to be creative deciding which part of the furniture would suit best....how hard should I press how much paint should I remove.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Homer, our cockerel was voicing his excitement too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whilst the ladies just sat watching him, "we have heard it all before" they clucked!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I have an idea......</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My signature on all the furniture I paint will have a message somewhere!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am working on this piece for my husband, Hargs who is patiently waiting for somewhere to put his cuppa in the morning!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I could hear the sheep in the land adjoining ours and the birds were singing, I really did feel like I was in Seventh Heaven!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Continuing with the sand paper I accidentally on purposely hit the handle, wow that improved with a rub as well!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And...finished!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It had been a full on day, hands were in desperate need of some hand cream, hair needed washing, it was sticking out with dust at a rather eccentric angle, but boy was I haPPy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I need to have another piece of marble cut for the inside shelf, it's too marked and beyond for my liking, but hey ho Hargs has a place to put his plectrums, leads, his Minnie Mouse,(as I call it), and a cuppa!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of you will of course think I have committed sacrilege using paint in the first place,and Louis XV1 will turn in his grave, but I have created exactly what I originally planned, with a big helping hand from Annie of course,... and had the best fun along the way!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My thanks go to Annie Sloan, what an amazingly inspiring woman who has designed the best paint ever & created the most fabulous community of like minded women. To my dearest friend Laura Lawrence for driving from England to Italy with a car load of paint and to her man Paul for putting up with it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ps...For those of you inspired to have a go yourselves, a little pinch of advice, don't get as carried away as I did painting the entire cabinet.......the drawers have no leeway and will not open smoothly!!! </span></div>
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For me it feels like a celebration, being able to buy fresh lemons picked straight from the tree, vegetables, hand-made sausages from local reared meat, honey and eggs to top up our own when our hens aren't laying so well at this time of year...and a delicious selection of cheeses including Ricotta and Pecorino.</div>
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She insisted on giving them to me, wouldn't take a cent bless her, so I kissed her on both cheeks and will look out for her next week to buy some of her other produce!</div>
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I am informed by the locals it's good for your system to eat some of the lemon skin as well, no nasties sprayed on them........organic just how nature intended!</div>
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<br />Karen Hargadon-Feeneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01105245266265799053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031057132663597373.post-79400305110301382432015-01-21T10:42:00.000-08:002016-05-13T12:55:21.461-07:00Writers Retreat<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The month of October is, in my opinion, the best time of year, light is always superb with mist hugging the mountains, woodland colours all beginning to change to the golds reds and browns of Autumn.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">An inspiring time to welcome our writers to our first Writing Retreat!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thrilled to work, for the first time with my dear friend, Edana Minghella, who led the retreat and the lovely, Vincent O'Connell who took the Master Class.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our four interesting ladies arrived with great enthusiasm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I loved nipping down to our village to source local produce ready to prepare our lunch and dinner. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Edana also happens to be a terrific jazz singer, one of her many talents, so we were also spoilt with her wonderful voice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think perhaps he had seen our ladies arriving and curiosity got the better of him!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our first writing retreat was a huge success, amazing how everyone really bonded, new friendships were made and our group left with a sense of new inspiration excited to return to their corners of the world and do what they loVe best.......write. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our Spring Writing Retreat is being held at Settimo Cielo from, 25th April~2nd May 2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Karen Hargadon-Feeneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01105245266265799053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031057132663597373.post-31127312636528124342014-11-05T00:08:00.001-08:002016-05-16T05:26:41.040-07:00Andare a Piedi ~<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can't tell you how happy I feel right now, at this very point in time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sitting here in the piazza, sun beating down, last day of October 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I feel it swathing, hugging my entire body ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This small embracing piazza, the centre of where I have sat, (now live), for more than ten years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I sit at a small table for three, the Italians being so superstitious would not place chairs for two or four!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Umbrella shaped trees flank either side of the large Comune door in big antique stone pots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Step into the entrance hall and you will see the stone staircase running to the top of this huge building, linking all the floors and rooms, one of which houses our Sindaco, (Mayor), Enzo Manenti.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A man close to my heart...... having agreed to help me obtain planning permission for the land we had bought, all those years earlier, from criminal English estate agents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How many times had I ran up to his office for a fragment of news, sometimes to offer additional information, over the course of months, more than a year........the tears that were shed and final joy, elation when he announced to Jim and I that indeed he had obtained the necessary documentation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He closed the huge shutters and wiped across his brow, phew! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We had done it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He could so easily have turned me away at the beginning, after all, I am English he didn't have to help me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A moment so deeply touching, never to be forgotten ~ now etched within me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Come la vita", (how is life), Bugelli announced as he walked past me towards the entrance to the bar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Bello", beautiful I reply, thinking, we all have our worries and gosh mine are deep at times, but I choose to live each day and notice all the little things in life that make me so very happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I do what I can for others and remain positive with a glad and thankful heart, conscious too that life is a very fine line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are here to help one another to be more tolerant, must be glad for all the things we have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I count my blessings daily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The castle standing proud, opposite the Comune building takes up almost the width of the piazza.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">D</span><span style="font-size: large;">ating back to the 12th Century I admire the heavy chestnut doors and try and imagine how many rooms inside.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Bugelli reappears, lights a cigarette and sits at my table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Noticing the small branch, awkwardly stuck through my jute bag, he tells me the name in dialect, Peti.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had picked it up as I walked down the hill into the village, with the idea of placing it decoratively across the top of the glass cabinet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He knew all about this tree and it's healing qualities of the fruit with a nut in the centre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Good for the intestines apparently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bugelli is a well known and loved musician, also sings, and a great friend of Zucchero.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When mentioning Zucchero, I replied asking if he is at home at the moment or on tour, at home apparently, which is very close to here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bugelli proceeds to tell me that he has also sang about Peti, he sings Blues, Rock and Folk music.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Apparently you eat them in the evening, after dinner before going to bed, amazing healing properties, he was bought up on these beautiful shaped fruits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We talked some more about the importance of natural medicine, a subject I strongly believe in, far better than pills and potions, he agreed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He informed me of another plant, La Malva, a great one for tooth ache.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mauro has some growing in his orto, he tells me, so I will ask him to show me the plant next time I am passing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bugelli is one of life's wonderful characters, a colourful individual who sports his own unique style.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I felt privileged to be sitting here chatting in Italian with him in the glorious sunshine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He had a lot to do that morning he told me as he got up, proceeded to give me information about the children singing with him on Tuesday in the piazza at 11am. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On that note he tipped his hat, took my hands in his, drew them towards his lips, gently kissing them and wished me a good day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My attention was slowly drawn back to the piazza and all the life coming and going, voices chattering, friends, neighbours greeting, hugging kissing one another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the place where everyone meets, people who were born here, families who have lived in this village for generations, a community living side by side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A community supporting one another, when a member passes on to the next life, the same announcement is posted around the immediate area, a different name and age, the same public notice because everyone will attend the funeral and when the church is full to the gunnels they will stand outside to pay their last respects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many of them share the same beliefs, linked by the Catholic Church, everyone has, more or less, the same service at their funeral.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Voices chattering people laughing, all seem content to pass the time of day interspersed, of course, with the traditional kissing of each cheek or hugging whilst patting a firm hand across the back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's warm, very warm in every sense with a gentle breeze occasionally stroking my cheeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Someone calls across the piazza to me, feeling blessed feeling I belong, that we too are part of this caring community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My mind winds back to earlier this morning, when I climbed out of bed, then realising I needed a few provisions and still no car.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even so the weather beckoned and I needed the exercise!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I pulled on my very old Timberland boots, not one for labels, I bought these because they were, still, are incredibly comfy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They had become a bit shabby around the uppers, so I found a lovely lady with a sewing machine in a street in China, a few years ago, bought a strip of fabric and asked her to restitch over the top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They looked terrific, she made a fantastic job and no other pair in the world!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stepping out in the fresh morning air, I had started walking with a skip in my heel eager to meet the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Minutes later I saw Mauro at his orto busy clearing out the little rustic kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An invitation ~ he asked that we should join him and Carla, together with Laura, Luciano and Alberto, his sister-in-law Angela the following day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How wonderfully unexpected, Saturday and Sunday are festa days, All Saints and All Souls where they all honour their loved ones by taking flowers to the cemetery and light candles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lovely that we should be asked to spend time with them on such a family day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Feeling thrilled, I continued along the track, inhaling the earthy woodland smells, fir cones, leaves, interwoven with wafts of honey, wild mint and sweet clover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think of the festival day each year during September when prayers and thanks are made for the chestnuts and other fruits provided within the woodland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Karen Hargadon-Feeneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01105245266265799053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031057132663597373.post-14294357485468742762014-09-30T12:44:00.001-07:002014-09-30T12:44:14.759-07:00The Painting ~<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Sitting in the orto on my old bench, naked feet gently pressed in Thyme, releasing the most divine scent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Occasionally I glance at my dear Italian friend, Michelina as she paints on canvas........our house!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bees dip into the vibrant blue Borage flowers, colourful butterflies flutter from flower to flower.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bells chime the mid~day hour from the church along the lane....a gentle breeze in the air, sun warms our backs......love this place.............I am lost in time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Allowing the breeze to carry away any stresses I have, gradually I relax more enjoying the presence, the energy of now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Revelling the sweet moment connecting with nature, the smell the aroma of herbs and vegetables growing, surrounding us......my friend paints with all her heart and soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am so very touched, it's for me, my special place, this tranquil haven......I want only to share with other creative souls and free spirits, and of course, my husband!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She lights a cigarette, like one of those actresses from an age gone by, elegant and glamorous.....full pink lips and broad smile, she laughs from within.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A pic~nic lunch, fresh pear, in season, ruccola, walnuts, parmigiano a little olive oil, the one Karen and Al bought all the way from Australia....undeniably made from olives they had picked!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I clear our plates, my friend reaches back towards the canvas.....love the smell of the paint, lost in the gentle warmth of being and in the company of one who feels as I do, that this is Settimo Cielo!</span></div>
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Have you ever experienced collecting an egg from a henhouse…………. still warm?</div>
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You haven't lived until you have!</div>
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LoVe peering in the box to see if one of our 'ladies' has left us a gift, such joy to find……even more of a thrill to hold the beautiful smooth, brown, sometimes speckly egg in hand so fresh and warm.</div>
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"If you have an egg, you have a meal"my Nana Beach used to say!</div>
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You must write it on your 'bucket list'!</div>
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The first a delightful carnival float with a group of young girls, " The Belles of St. Mary's" depicting a piano, sheets of music and those bell shaped paper lanterns swinging above their heads!</div>
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Thank you from the bottom of my heart my darling, the most wonderful thoughtful gift.XXX</div>
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<br />Karen Hargadon-Feeneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01105245266265799053noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031057132663597373.post-35849333600182515102014-01-10T19:55:00.001-08:002014-01-10T19:55:39.584-08:00An Apology…...If you are sitting somewhere in the world, (in one of the many countries I see listed in my statistics), reading this, then………... thank you!<br />
I owe you an apology, I feel I have neglected you.<br />
This posting has been a long time coming, the last, half written was holding me back I fear.<br />
With such an interlude encompassing another season it made it so difficult deciding what should be noted and what should be omitted…so much has happened and I found other things pressing.<br />
I promise you it won't happen again!<br />
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How important to collect all the fallen olives, for this was food, soon to become Olive Oil….. so intrinsically beneficial for our health.</div>
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Regular intake reduces the risk of heart disease, decreases blood pressure and helps to prevent certain cancers, acts as an anti-inflammatory amongst many other things……it's good stuff!</div>
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Before I go……..looking back briefly over last year, I felt the most inspiring story I would like to share with you was that of Antoine, the lovely young Frenchman who arrived on his bicycle from Rome!</div>
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For those of you who don't already know the story.......Antoine was sleeping down by the church at the end of our lane when Genevieve, one of our lovely HelpX guests came across him.........our dogs disturbed Antoine so Genevieve invited him to meet us. I had just cleared a small table under the Wisteria ready to settle into some writing when I became aware of a bicycle being pushed into view and voices!</div>
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He cycled in the direction his fancy took him.......such a wonderful sense of freedom!</div>
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Rome is five hours from us, it took Antoine five days!</div>
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A lady who engaged in conversation as impressed as I, offered that he could stay with her and her husband over night!</div>
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Another interesting liaison of which I am sure there will be more to discover very soon!</div>
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For a long time now, I have thought how lovely it would be to base the way we live our lives, in a more sharing way.<br />
That is to say, on an exchange basis rather than monetary.<br />
How wonderful if we could provide the environment, a comfortable bed, good fresh, home prepared food, an occasional glass of wine and laughter in return for help we need with various projects.<br />
Materials provided by us of course!<br />
However, my husband has always had his doubts!<br />
"How could we expect people to work without being paid," he always argued!<br />
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A few years ago in fact someone informed me, during a similar conversation, that indeed such a scheme already exists............ it is called HelpX.<br />
I talked again with my husband, who still couldn't grasp the fact that there are people more than happy to offer their skills in return for a place to stay and eat, enabling them to see something more of the world!<br />
So I shelved my thoughts until earlier this year.<br />
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If I am honest, our situation here is more than difficult at times, with Jim constantly away working long hours in different parts of the world, providing for our life here in this wonderful haven that we can only share fleetingly for a number of weeks in the year.<br />
We have desperately needed to make improvements, finish outstanding work to the house and enhance the land with planting further, providing a vegetable garden............ a place for everyone to enjoy the serenity of this very special place ......constantly to a huge financial outlay and emotional cost.<br />
Still encountering a fair amount of challenges on the way!<br />
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Our last project was to plaster the apartment in the lower part of the property to make it a habitable area.<br />
Sealing against the elements during the very cold winter months.<br />
This vital work was carried out last year but again, at a huge cost.<br />
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So, back I went to the HelpX website, this time reading very carefully through a great many profiles and reviews that had been written about Helpers.<br />
This wasn't just for transient individuals looking for a place to stay for a night, happy to do a bit of weeding or cook a meal perhaps, all fine but,........... here was a wonderful melting pot of individuals, couples and friends offering terrific skills and trades, a colourful group of artisans of all ages and backgrounds from all around the world enthusiastically offering their time, in order to travel...........planning routes around the planet for longer periods of time!<br />
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Nothing, not even my lovely Jim could stop me now......this was far too exciting for words, we had to give it a go!!!<br />
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So, here we are.............. our first HelpXer arrived in May!<br />
Benjamin came to us for a week, he painted a couple of rooms for us very well and rescued one of our hens when she managed to get stuck under the henhouse!<br />
He even cooked supper one evening!<br />
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The exchange worked so well on both sides, encouraging me to trawl further through the thousands of Helpers finding some more.<br />
Some directly approached me, offering their help and skills.<br />
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Since Benjamin, we have enjoyed the company of Helen and Rodney, an Australian couple who arrived in their motor home, stopping by to build a decking area,(which Jim also managed to get home for!),........followed by a lovely girl, Charlene, from an island called Reunion.<br />
Charlie came to weed the lavender garden, but also painted hens and ducks around the henhouse and cooked a tasty Creole dish for us!<br />
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I wanted Morag to come and teach me how to take cuttings and carry plants over to the following year, build a compost heap and prune.<br />
Morag was everything I imagined she would be and more! We immediately warmed to one another and, as it turned out, shared a great many interests.......as well as laughs!!!<br />
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Then off came the sheets, on with the fresh in time for our sweet Taiwanese girl, Fina who helped with work inside the house....ended up being the best window cleaner cleaning every window and mirror in sight!<br />
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Our last helper, Genevieve, 22 from New Zealand also came to help in the garden clearing the driveway of weeds.<br />
Her help extended beyond, ever mindful of what was needed in the kitchen Genevieve always offered help where it was needed most with a good heart.<br />
We shared interesting conversation and Genevieve passed on some of the sustainable living ideas she had picked up in Spain.<br />
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In fair exchange we always gave our best, a warm welcome into our happy household jointly with our three dogs, 2 cats, and hens better known as the 'ladies'!<br />
Everyone was offered a comfy bed with scrummy white cotton sheets, en suite shower room and delicious home cooked locally sourced food.<br />
A seat at our table where stories are passed on, a glass of Prosseco or a cold beer and much laughter!<br />
We genuinely are interested in where in the world these lovely people have sprung from, their ideals experiences and what has motivated them to travel.<br />
We have strived to provide a true taste of the real Italy and life here and give them a memory or two to take away, as they indeed leave us with their own.<br />
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So enamoured have I felt that I have experienced an overwhelming sense of wishing them to leave a footprint of themselves.<br />
This place, for me has always felt like it should be shared......a special place of tranquility I have wanted others to benefit from.............. this magical aura on Torre Di Monte Vignale.<br />
With this in mind I have encouraged helpers to create something......painting, sculpture......whatever they feel they want to leave behind, something from their imagination.<br />
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As you will already know from previous postings, sharing of food is high on my list of priority for life.<br />
I have also encouraged helpers to cook and enter their recipes in our kitchen journal!<br />
Everyone seems to have loved this and we have certainly enjoyed tasting dishes from around the world!<br />
Food is to be shared and good recipes passed on in my mind!<br />
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Beyond this, the HelpX experience has taken me along another route entirely, one I have always wished for, a sharing of skills and exchange route, I now feel has materialised.<br />
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In experiencing another journey for living, I am questioning so much more ever more mindful of paring life down to the minimum, going back to basics for a life far richer than money can ever offer.<br />
Getting rid of unnecessary frills being more thoughtful of what we are doing to Mother Earth and indeed, each other!<br />
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It is possible to lead a life with the greatest simplicity, with an emphasis on sharing.<br />
Simplicity in running our own lives, growing our own food, going back to some of the old fashioned ways, sharing what we have and spending more time with those we love who are important to us.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Em and I arrived at Vittorino's small holding last Saturday morning for what we understood was going to be a day of watching him show his Pastore Apuano dogs rounding up the sheep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In fact it was far more than that, Zeus, Em's lovely boy, now around 5 months old, whom she got from Vittorino, was about to be put through tests and introduced to sheep along with a few others! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Being a youngster, Zeus had a blood test taken to check for certain that in fact he was one of this ancient breed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The blood would be sent to the University to check the DNA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Vittorino is obviously a man passionate about animals, reflected in the fabulous area he has created for ducks, geese, donkeys, sheep, goats and dogs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The dogs are Pastore Apuano from this area of northern Tuscany known as Lunigiana.....an ancient breed going back to Roman times. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The vet had a little trouble taking blood from Zeus, so Vittorino stepped in to steady our feller!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have been stopping by for a year or more, watching the place take shape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have wanted to build animal enclosures for our piece of land from natural available materials for some time......I am inspired by this enclosure!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The animals are all well kept and cared for......wonderful to see!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Carolina, to the right of her Dad, came along to support him and with her great English, explain anything not understood by me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Following a delicious lunch he kindly treated us all to a glass of Prosecco!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is Em saying "goodbye" to lovely Carolina.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whilst waiting for the paperwork and to hear how Zeus fared, Em was shown the skull of a wolf a ranger friend of Vittorino's had found up in the mountains!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She has found a few herself whilst out walking the dogs!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here you can see the difference between a dog on the left and the wolf!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A fascinating gentle man who trained dogs professionally including police dogs, as a living before his retirement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He now divides his time between his family in Milan and here with his other passion....his dogs and other animals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He has created a wonderful haven and we are delighted to have met him and his family and be fortunate to have the privilege to learn from his experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Emily is delighted to have the chance to give Zeus this opportunity, to carry out work with sheep as his ancestors before him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A wonderful day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but his reaction to the loud noise tests were excellent....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All the promise of a bright new day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Upon my return, I prepared and drank my fresh squeezed lemon in boiling water, followed by a hearty bowl of porridge with a handful of blueberries thrown in.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I contemplated how I should spend the morning....the sun had announced the day, it wasn't raining anymore, so I thought I would tackle the builders hut, full of snow and water damaged items stored whilst we carried out work on the apartment.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The last snowfall was so immense, the weight caused the tin roof to buckle rendering it wide open to the elements.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had a rotten time of dragging lifting and bagging up all kinds of things.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Difficult due to a large number of framed photographs I had kept from the days when I had my studio, pictures of clients and their children......now ruined.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Not quite my life works but the emotion felt on a par!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Eventually, after a good hour or two, I decided I had had enough, time for a break, only so much a girl can take in one hit!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It wasn't long before my mind turned to food.....what to have for lunch, well I do live in Italy!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"I know......the broad beans"!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was so unbelievably hot in the sun, (why do we say that? it's obviously not going to be hot in the shade!). </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I took my bag of beans together with a beautiful blue bowl......(selecting just the right utensil gives me enormous additional pleasure, I am like it when selecting a cup!!!),...... out into the sun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sun was beating down warming my face filling me with absolute joy when all of a sudden I heard the familiar voice of a bird of prey.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Looking up I was rewarded by the beautiful graceful bird gliding on the thermals, ( I think that is what you call the warm air, I sometimes get muddled, I know I have been wearing thermals all winter!....).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Isn't language a funny thing?!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It circled above me, I marvel at how acute their eyesight is, to be so high and then suddenly spot a little field mouse in the undergrowth!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I drew a deep breathe, inhaling the fresh air.....my goodness, it's great to be alive.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It's always the small things in life that offer the greatest pleasure......sometimes we allow ourselves to get so bogged down with the bigger issues, we miss the very things that fill and enrich us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First lunch of the year outside, I can hardly believe it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once they are almost cooked, add spaghetti or in this case, I used fresh Troccoli Pugliesi............ thought you would like that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whilst that is cooking away, and not for long particularly if you use fresh pasta, chop a little fresh mint, mmmm love it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Grate some Parmigiano and get your lemon cut in half and a good bottle of olive oil on the ready.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once cooked, drain, place back in the pan adding a good squooze of lemon, ( as Margaret used to say!), a dash of olive oil and the chopped mint, oh and don't forget..... black pepper.....finally throw in a small handful of Parmigiano!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Voila....a quick tasty lunch!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A short siesta...... forty winks later, I decided it was high time I started preparing our raised beds down in the Orto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, just when I didn't think my day could get any better, Laura turned up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Feeling rather proud of myself to be digging when she arrived, I called up to her,"I'm in the Orto"!!! But in Italian of course!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everyone has been talking about the rain, moaning about the fact that we cannot get our vegetable gardens ready for planting!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, here I was, actually quite exhausted as I hadn't done such physical work in a while, I wiped my brow on my sleeve and dug the spade hard into the ground as if I was an old hand at this game!!! Haha!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We met with the usual firm kisses planting them on each others cheeks and a big hug, I love Laura.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She is so warm, generous hearted, well only with the few she likes that is, God help the rest of them! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The plaque on Laura's electronic gates reads, " it's not the dogs, it's the owner you need worry about", or words to that effect!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Laura is quite unique, she is incredibly funny, even though I don't always understand the dialect!.......very forthright and down to earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her life has been a hard one, she doesn't suffer fools gladly, she is wise and has great knowledge about foraging for food and cooking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, and she swears and tells jokes and funny stories!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I always manage to select the worst possible word, asking it's meaning...Laura roars with laughter and tells Emily not to tell her Mum!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So here she was, with a bag of fresh eggs from her hens, her knife she keeps in her pocket and a big stick to help her walk through the woods up to our house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She had come for a walk, to get out of the house after all the rain, but also to show me some of the food we already have in the garden!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wash them thoroughly, place them in boiling water with a little salt, as you would cook spinach, so not for long!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Eat as they are as a vegetable or place in a pan with thinly sliced pancetta and a small glug of the good stuff......olive oil!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can also eat the very young leaves in the centre of the plant as you would salad leaves.......so much tastier and interesting, and incredibly good for you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">More on this subject in the future...soooo interesting and it's free!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh and guess what, we found tender young carrots hiding from last years sowing and beetroot!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mimosa.........March 8th and it's Festa della Donna......</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Traditionally on this day men present the women in their lives with a bunch of Mimosa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It has a particular scent, not to everyone's liking as Em and I witnessed at a locals restaurant, when the owner turned to us pulling a face whilst shaking her head!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, it's vivid colour is enough to brighten everyone's day and it's a wonderful gesture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were lucky enough to be presented with a bunch by Alice at our local bar, so sweet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As you may already be aware, I love hunting around in junk shops and antique markets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had forgotten to mention this wonderful box, a birthday present from my Dad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">During the last visit I made with my parents to Stamford, we found it in the place where we go for a good old rootle around!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I only just managed to get it back to Italy as hand luggage...a box within a bag!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love old boxes, this one looks great filled with oranges, I have another 101 uses for it, so you may see it featured again sometime!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks Dad, the best present!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can be forgiven for thinking it's Pancake Day....although I guess it is...........unofficially!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mauro makes delicious pancakes using home made flour from chestnuts gathered in our woods, during the month of October.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's something all the contadini, take part in, another important time to gather a source of food from the woods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I take enormous pleasure in learning more and more about the foods that can be found growing wild all around us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mauro is adding aqua frizzante to the flour, nothing else......it needs to be a fairly thick mixture, thicker than our batter we would use. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once the fire is hot enough and the irons heated, he pours a spoonful of the mixture into the centre, before closing them back over the fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, nearly forgot to mention the lard he rubs over the irons heating it before spooning the pancake mix......lard without salt added!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Looking tired but enjoying fresh natural pancakes.....no nasty additives in this neck of the woods!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had already had a long lunch session at our other neighbours.....just happened to be passing with the dogs and Mauro decided to show us how he makes pancakes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The fire irons, (not sure of the proper name), are old ones been in the family since way back when they used to live in this sweet little house. These days Mauro uses the place to make a coffee or pancakes whilst tending his Orto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The really crispy pancakes would be fantastic quartered and stuck in gelato instead of a wafer.....in my opinion!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday we hosted the Saturday Club....something I have only done once before but it went really well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was partly as a thank you to Segio, Mauro and Laura's cousin who had so kindly fitted us up with his generator when we had a big problem with the electrics recently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everyone rallies for each other here, a great feeling of whatever is needed we will sort it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Antonio's mortadella which is a softer salami made from pork, focaccia from a neighbouring village.....kind of want to make my own with fresh herbs from the garden but working up to it!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Always much laughter and loud chatter......I love that, no sitting quietly around the table in Italy!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everyone helps themselves.....part of the family, no sitting waiting to be served. If you want something you take it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We must have sat for four hours, and when they decided to leave....it took another hour out in the garden!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sergio has offered help with driving a digger to move earth before we lay some turf around the immediate area of the house....."an English garden," they all say!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jim and I managed a return trip to Gullane, (situated on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth in East Lothian on the east coast of Scotland), during our whirlwind annual visit to Edinburgh.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You may remember my posting around the same time last year, we try to return to plant something new on Jim's parents grave. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Walking along the beach, particularly at this time of year always feels very special.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Love feeling the wind through my hair, inhaling sea air and returning to a place where Jim spent some of his childhood....building sand castles on the beach.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">More than ever before, I am in awe of time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Especially in this place, where, if you could wind back the 'film', you would see Jim as a child playing with his brother...his parents keeping the boys safe....enjoying a paddle!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Playing with his cousins.....uncle Andrew keeping an eye on them all.... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Around the age of 7, (when I was born!), James also came to Gullane on a school trip.....all children were brought here from miles around.......still arrive by the coach load apparently!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> His Mum had also attended the same school......a young Mary Hargadon also expressed her excitement on Gullane Bents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She and James even had the same teacher!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All this history.............. fascinates me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We came, (my first jaunt), with Mary and Pat and the girls, Lauren and Em when they were children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was chilly then, early in the year, I remember we were all wrapped up against the wind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And now.......it's the second year of our return since Mary's passing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I always love to collect shells.....I have never before seen the huge ones I find at Gullane......</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Were you here before, all those years ago, when the little boy James played in the sand?....were you lying next to him buried deep?".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A wonderful find, full of her very own designs using Handwoven Harris Tweed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can honestly say.....I have never experienced walking in to a bag shop and being so excited in all my life!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Spoilt for choice I managed to spend my little savings on a small shoulder bag, the "Cuillin" and "Glenfinnan" a bag for my laptop!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stylish, beautifully designed using the best materials, combined with Lynne's passion and eye for what works and is......just right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love the shoulder bag which I wear across my body.....it sits in the right place, on my hip and moves with me, it doesn't fly around!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The compartment at the back has a beautiful, solid brass popper, I can easily slip my passport and other travel documents inside...ID, Driving License etc..</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is so perfect in every way that I shall never use anything else unless, of course, I am carrying my laptop, leads and 'dinosaur' as I call it.......carrying all my thousands of photographs,(can't remember it's proper name but then that's me...a language of my own!!!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then......well there is the whole wonderful Harris Tweed story, which I will leave you to discover, but it is the only cloth in the world governed and protected by an Act of Parliament, the Harris Tweed Act of 1993, and only genuine Harris Tweed bears the Orb symbol.</span></div>
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T<span style="font-size: large;">hese beautiful flowers were recently laid here in memory of a man from the village who had recently passed away.</span></div>
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The destruction within our woods is unbelievable!</div>
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The enemy arrived almost unseen and began to take down the trees...trees that have seen history, trees that provided important habitation for birds and wildlife.....trees we loved.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have been so lucky with our weather this winter.....little rain and none of the beastly cold we had come to expect at this time of year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Magliano nestles up on the other side of the mountains........ a beautiful winding journey where Olive Trees line the road and the view is spectacular. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We met Dina,(to the left of the photograph), or Nonna as I affectionately call her, and Gabriella around 9 years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The restaurant is appropriately named "Apuane"......obvious once you have arrived!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh and they make the very best ravioli!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I remember when Jim and I first stumbled across the place, a very full Sunday lunch time and they were heaving at the seams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We loved it because it was full of Italians....lots of chatter and laughter, everyone enjoying their meal!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you ever fancy going on a Sunday, make sure you don't eat breakfast.....the meal is set, costs 20 Euros a head, includes as much wine and bottled water as you like, and there are many courses, a mountain of the most delicious home cooked food!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When we returned we sat in the bar, I remember how they encouraged me with my Italian, all sitting in a circle around me waiting patiently for the 2 or 3 words I managed to cobble together "Brava" they all chanted cheered and clapped!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I was probably saying something very boring like "it's a lovely day"............er probably not as many words haha!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You know when you have been accepted when a local brings you his highly recommended home reared and made sausages!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My second birthday treat came just over a week later when Laura insisted on baking a BOMBA!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This apparently, is a local dish specifically from Lunigiana...my Italian friend Giusi also knew of it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Four and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie" rather sprang to my mind when I discovered that Mauro had supplied a few birds, Laura had thrown in one of her pigeons,(not the kind to be found in Trafalgar Square I may add!), a perfectly clean country bird!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A little pork had also gone into the wonderful tomato sauce and local fungi...it was quite something!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You may think we are always eating at Laura's.....you are probably right! Haha!.... but they do enjoy coming to our house when I deliberately cook good old English dish's such as Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding.....they loved that so much, I also made Toad in the Hole.....try and explain that one!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He is an ancient 2000 year old breed, Pastore Apuan we stumbled across at a beautiful little small holding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Vittorino has created a fine sanctuary with sheep dogs he trains and shows as well as ducks, sheep and donkeys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not all fun and games, I suffered trauma on the drive trying to get the car up to the house using ash, old sack cloth and even car mats.....to no avail!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks for the suggestions from my Nordic friend Susanne and Vonnie, and Cameron!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Noticing signs of a more significant change in season, I had the feeling I had missed out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was too late to experience the swirling fluttering leaves in the wind, falling like bronze and gold confetti. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cameron had returned whilst I was away, unable to settle back in England, he truly has the Italian Bug!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Chopping is one of Cameron's skills...once we had bought a better, long handled axe he really came into his own chopping piles of kindling in various sizes...love that boy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Laura treated us to one of her delicious roasted wild boar lunches served with Polenta...which you may already know can be eaten</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Polenta is cornmeal made from dried ground maize and provides a staple dish in Northern Italy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mixed with water we enjoyed ours cooked creamy and thick, but it's also good once set and sliced or fried the following day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is served instead of pasta, rice or potatoes and, in its dried form can be used to coat chicken or fish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were also treated to wild mushrooms fried in a light batter.. delicious!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like all that is on offer at Laura's table, they were gathered from her land.....eating all that is grown, produced and reared in this area fills me with the deepest satisfaction. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well I eventually had to get down to the Christmas preparations, starting with the cake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had made a Christmas cake the year before which was a huge hit, a little daunted in case it didn't quite man up this year I cautiously put the first stages into place heating the fruit ready to soak overnight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This recipe was originally one of Jamie's, although I take great delight in adding my own selection of fruit and nuts, also a great way of using up odd bits from the pantry! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We all love a real Christmas Tree..... this time I found one with proper roots......the idea being we would never have to buy one again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hung on to that thought as Cameron and I struggled to get it out of the boot of the car!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We heaved and heaved, so heavy and awkward but eventually we balanced it on the wheel barrow and Cameron wheeled it through the front door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once dressed and swathed in tiny white lights we both stood back and admired our work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once again I started to eye up Mauro's holly tree laden with bright red berries mmmm they would make a fitting table decoration!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">An interlude of mountain shots I would like to share with you......I must have thousands of shots all of the same view but all different...changing light and colour...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enjoyed making mincemeat for the mince pies......this time I looked up a Delia recipe to see how she made it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have to say, not crazy about her...not certain why either, sorry to all you Delia fans of which I am certain there are many!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everyone gets dragged in to contribute with the feast....so look out if you ever decide to stay with us at Christmas!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cameron re-created dates with prosciutto he had sampled one year in Portugal......very impressed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As midnight approached we gathered in our bathroom to watch the array of fireworks across the valley!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before they all left, we planned a train journey to Monterosso at the Cinque Terre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love doing this trip, little distance and upon arrival you step off the train....and there right ahead of you is the beautiful Mediterranean Sea!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Surrounded by vineyards and dry stone walls, winding pathways and enchanting beaches, the five villages with beautiful colour washed houses make this an amazing place to visit!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Breathtaking views, beautiful churches and castle as well as great little restaurants for sampling delicious sea food....they say the best anchovies come from Monterosso!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 4th of January.....we could not believe how hot it was when we arrived, having left early on a cold foggy morning!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Layered up good and proper!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't know who she is, but the heat of the sun and sea air brings out the best in people!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This giant intrigues me every time I come to Monterosso......who is he? why is he there?......more importantly, who was the amazing sculptor who created him?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A great way to finish a very enjoyable day...dinner at our neighbours, in true Italian style, other members of our family were welcomed around the table.... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Packing my case for a return trip to England created a good deal of worry recently.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">An EasyJet flight meant restrictions and I had Christmas presents to take back for my family!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And what I wasn't prepared for, was the pre allocated seats they now issue.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It's so much more stressful flying these days, even more so when the seats are apart from those you are travelling with!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Em isn't keen on flying at the best of times, so you can imagine how delighted she was when I realised the only seats free happened to fall across the aisle, next to where I was wedged between a rather large couple!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">At last I could relax, bags through and a reasonable seat with my daughter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our luck continued when we picked up our little bog standard hire car, realising it was a beautiful little pale blue Cinquecento!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A couple of nights with my sister in Sussex before collecting my eldest daughter, Lauren and heading for the Midlands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am always delighted to return to the place I grew up, as much as I couldn't wait to leave all those years ago in a plight to see something more of the world!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Basing myself with my parents meant I could help with stacking their wood delivery, something I have become a dab hand at having lived in rural Italy for so long!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">As well as visiting dear old school chums and my other family from my first marriage, people whom I still hold close to my heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We all had a terrific week-end as by chance two of my nephews arrived and my sis which made quite a party together with family friends Daniele and Michael.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Daniele promised to send me a copy of her mother's Tarte Tatin recipe so I was thrilled, ever hungry for new recipes especially those passed down within a family!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">She also told me not to worry when I make it for the first time because the original Tatin sisters, who ran a hotel restaurant in Lamotte-Beuvron at the beginning of the century, apparently dropped the tart hence it ended up upside down which made them and it famous!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I always enjoy time with Daniele.... she is great company.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The house is full of very fond memories....nights of camping out at the bottom of the garden, carrying down piping hot jacket potatoes with lashings of butter and salt and the home where we frequently dipped our jam jars into the pond under the beautiful gigantic Weeping Willow, or so it seemed then.</span></div>
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I was recently lucky enough to meet the great team, behind the most amazing food produced at our favourite restaurant Sofra Ocakbasi in Izmit.<br />
The cheeriest bunch of Turks you could wish to meet!<br />
We love sitting out on the street where we can really be a part of the atmosphere.<br />
Just when you think the place is full....another party arrives so, an extra table is borrowed from next door..... wonderful.......no restrictions!!!<br />
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Vibrant fascinating life in the place we always go eat, drink and study!</div>
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The 22nd of September, marked the day of the September Equinox. </div>
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The time when the sun shines directly on the equator, when the length of day and night is almost equal. </div>
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For me, this always feels exciting. </div>
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From my photographic eye, the light is always more beautiful, mist gradually begins to appear adding another dimension to my mountain photographs and the cooler air is more comfortable for walking. </div>
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Not one to wish time away, I have fully embraced the summer celebrating with good old friends, people I grew up with.</div>
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Hidden behind imposing Renaissance walls, Lucca is one of my favourite places, so it was natural to want to share it with my chums. </div>
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We wandered the streets eventually stopping for lunch in a great little restaurant Jules spotted,(had to mention that!!!), called Paris Boheme in Piazza Cittadella, right next to the seated statue of Puccini.</div>
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It could not have been better,(alright Ju we know you discovered it!!!), organic food, fresh tasty and beautifully presented.</div>
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Our owner/waiter, Luis is a great flamboyant character, who, in my opinion pitched it just right and could not fail to put a smile on our faces! </div>
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Not surprisingly, apart from working in the best hotels in major European capitals, Luis attended dance courses at Pineapple Dance Studios in Covent Garden, having studied classical dance in Italy.</div>
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Right up my street I started with the Erotic Salad, delicious fruits, seeds and salad leaves followed by Tortelli Lucchesi............I fully recommend! </div>
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We were almost lost in time sitting in that wonderful place with the sun on our backs, eating sharing stories...watching the world go by!</div>
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A definite must if you ever have the good fortune to find yourself in Lucca....we will definitely return!</div>
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Den seemed to enjoy cooking for our party of eight one evening, I promised not to print the photograph of him dressed in one of our pinnies!!!</div>
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Michelle adorned our lavender beds, helping with my battle with the weeds!</div>
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The end of the most wonderful week with my girlfriends.....so easy, so natural, I love them to bits.....come back next year!</div>
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Forty minutes later and for just six Euros return....a step from the station and you arrive here at the Cinque Terre in Monterosso....wow! </div>
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Worth mentioning, my Danish friend Susanne, rents her beautiful Tuscan house throughout Spring and Summer.... www.serrapiana.dk have a look if you fancy somewhere chilled and comfortable with spectacular views!</div>
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I was drawn to looking up and around at the windows of apartments......a beautiful girl with long dark hair sat looking across the piazza.......a man held his baby up towards him encouraging him to laugh, two women sat holding their heads in their hands, elbows on the windowsill with just enough space to sit side by side, an elderly lady watched from a window behind the stage...... quite funny, once the concert had began and it was dark, her light could be seen going on and off.........she wore her nightie, in the light you could see a large wooden cross on the wall and her bed!</div>
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Jose Carreras, one of TheThree Tenors has played in some amazing venues and here we were in this, intimate medieval village looking up at the bedroom window of an elderly lady going to bed!!!</div>
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The girls went to the same little village school, growing up together.</div>
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Every day brings new light and colour, the mountains are the first view I see when I awake, I am always so thankful.</div>
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The tiny Fig Tree bought just a couple of years ago has grown enormously......and the flowers bloomed!</div>
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The lane through the woods took us to Laura and Luciano's..... a walk to lunch!<br />
Our lovely neighbours wanted to see Lauren before she left for England.<br />
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Feasting on home made pasta with a duck sauce, pasta with a scrumdiddly sauce,(the only word to describe it!!!), made from mushrooms Laura had found that morning in the woods, followed by torte vedure, scabei, roasted duck,(their own of course!), tiny home grown roasted potatoes and freshly picked salad leaves, followed by ice cream and coffee!<br />
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For us, a walk to Laura's is always an occasion.<br />
The welcome we receive from the family is the warmest, and somehow all the effort of gathering and preparing food gives us a deep feeling of being loved!<br />
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Coffee was taken outside in glorious sunshine!<br />
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FoFo, the goose wandered through to see us!......<br />
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He hasn't been the same since his partner was eaten by a fox poor chap.........now he sees Laura as his amore!!!<br />
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We chatted the afternoon away learning more of how terrible it was during the German occupation.<br />
Laura's uncle could see the German's arriving down by the cemetery, he quickly killed a pig hiding it in a hole until he could return!<br />
The enemy set fire to the house, destroying the home where Laura was born.<br />
Her family fled to the woods living in an old stone building....... they lived on what ever they could get their hands on, even lizards!<br />
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The young Doctor was killed, a relative of the present owners of the Torre.<br />
We must find the place of remembrance dedicated to him somewhere within this woodland.<br />
It's hard to imagine the terror that once reigned in this place of tranquility and beauty.<br />
How lucky we are to have freedom and peace, my wish for everyone.<br />
Freedom from war, starvation, drought, pain and suffering.<br />
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Enticing us to stay longer, Laura poured us a tot of her home made blackberry liquor....... we whiled away the rest of the afternoon together!<br />
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Blackbirds with their bright yellow beaks packed with nesting material fly with great purpose.<br />
Long legged Buttercups line the pathways brightening our route, bright red Poppies fill meadows gently waving along the road side.<br />
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We have a new addition to the family, a little pipkin of a Jack Russell named Ruby!<br />
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Adored by us all she is trying desperately to forge relationships with everyone including the cats, Luna and Teddy, oh and Wabbit.... just a little over zealous perhaps!<br />
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Last Saturday we took a trip to market to buy fresh local produce............such a pleasure chatting with the locals. I enjoy the hustle and bustle of market day, the happy smiling faces, brightly coloured fruit, vegetables and general community spirit it conjures up. Once you have bought your groceries the stall holders always tuck a bunch of parsley, a carrot and stick of celery into your basket, a lovely and generous touch! <br />
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James came back to see us with his girlfriend Verity, I cooked a seafood risotto and we spent the afternoon catching up in the sun!<br />
Lovely to see him looking well and happy!<br />
The wardrobe he so skilfully made last year stands in our bedroom, a wonderful piece of furniture, with shelves and hanging space, so well thought out.<br />
I have never had a wardrobe like it!<br />
My clothes are usually slung over a chair or the chaise!!! <br />
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A couple of nights later, I saw my first Firefly of the year!<br />
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Cameron tried to save this little field mouse from the clutches of Teddy, dear little thing!<br />
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First sign of the Cherry Tree bearing fruit.................. even if it was just a handful!<br />
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Paolo arranged a dinner party at our house, something he loves to do on a yearly basis!<br />
Arriving with bags of fresh produce he spent the afternoon preparing the feast for ten.<br />
Always a joy to have around I cannot believe we have known Paolo for almost 10 years.<br />
A very dear friend of Em's he has also been over to see us in England, a great one for any adventure, he loves travelling....and cooking!<br />
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The following Sunday, Eva and Chris came to lunch......I cooked a traditional English roast beef and yorkshire pud, which went down well, something we don't have much these days!<br />
I was spoiled with this wonderful bunch of glorious Sunflowers!<br />
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Occasionally Hargs puts in an appearance!!!<br />
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Some just laze around all day and become disgruntled if they are woken!<br />
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Mauro walked along the lane and made an inspection of the new wall, thinking Cameron had built it........he was shocked when I told him it was all Lauren's effort and hard work!!!</div>
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He had to do the strength test, checking to see if it wobbled and beamed with delight...........Brava Lauren!</div>
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<br /></div>Karen Hargadon-Feeneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01105245266265799053noreply@blogger.com6