Expat life

This semi-prime number, 51, is a bit like that, neither meat nor fish (my anguish does not subside).I don’t really want to party, and anyway, the restaurants and pubs here reopen after 12. Since January, we have been in a hard and pure lockdown; perhaps (perhaps) after May 17th, we...

Reiterate the concept

23 March 2021

The AstraZeneca is strong with me, as I have already written. What I didn’t tell is how I got there to get the vaccination. March 14th, I get an SMS from LambethHubs saying: Your GP Practice has invited you to book your COVID-19 vaccination appointment. Great, my sweet half has...

The fifth circle of Hell

01 February 2021

Yesterday was the anniversary of our arrival in London: six years have passed. Compared to last year, it has not changed so much, apart from the pandemic. The thing that has really changed is that Brexit has become a reality: this is going so well, that Ben Fletcher, the policy...

Merry Christmas

24 December 2019

Also this year the time has come for “you and your family”. I wrote very little this year, I would have liked to write a post on the WordCamp Milano but I postponed so much that it was Christmas. Maybe next year. I take this opportunity to thank all those...

Happy #blogversary

22 November 2019

Today this blog is 15 years old. How time passes when you have fun. (I’m not in the psycho-physical condition of writing something sensible, bare with me.)

Settlement Scheme

16 October 2019

For those who do not know it yet, if you are a European citizen who lives in the UK, to maintain your rights after the Brexit (because if you first have jumped the queue, now instead you must do it) you have to apply (not register, apply and hope for...

Dover and its cliffs

06 September 2019

Yesterday and the day before we took two days off from London, in the beautiful town of Dover. In short, the loot of these two days, in no particular order: We walked 17 + 12 km and peanuts, a good part uphill The white cliffs of Dover are entirely white....