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Settlement Scheme

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 the best*) the so-called settled status (EU Settlement Scheme)....

Dover and its cliffs

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. It is impressive to see how the sea melts the chalk consistently (10 cm a year)
  • The castle is stunning,
  • ...

Things I learned today

If I’m so stunned that I forget my cell phone at home in the morning, it’s not a problem, phone calls aside, since I can do everything else from the browser.
Sometimes being very lazy pays you.

I finally understood what it is really for the Find My Device functionality from Google: as mentioned above, at least I’m sure I left it at home and nowhere else....

The perfect square

Like all numbers ending in nine, forty-nine is a bit of a step number, a prelude to the new integer.
It is also a bit of this year’s figure, a year of transition, expectations, and limbo.
In short, this 49 is by no means perfect, despite the nature of the number.

The last month has been quite tricky from the health point of view,...

Lysoform Crude saga

I admit, on some things I’m a little bit fixated (like everyone else). In this case, I am talking about the fact that to clean the bathroom I have always used a specific product, the Lysoform Crude.

The main reason is that not only does it clean well and does not make too much foam, but disinfects and leaves a good smell....

So long, Tumblr

Yesterday I suffered so much from not being able to participate in the Peoplès Vote March, because of acute backache that has been tormenting me for a week.
Maybe it’s also why I decided to move all my Tumblr posts to a third-level domain (btw, deleting all posts from the Tumblr is not so easy, importing them instead is simple,...

And it's four

Sono passati quattro anni. Sembra ieri, ma qui a Londra ormai mi sento a casa. Per quanto riguarda la Brexit, una sola certezza: comunque vada, sarà un disastro.

Scaringly actual

Qualche giorno fa ho riscoperto un album che non ricordavo di aver ascoltato fino alla nausea, all'epoca. Sto ascoltando di nuovo una delle canzoni di quell'album perché è del 1986, ma è spaventosamente attuale.