It has been a funny year and watching my middle son queuing COVID style for his final middle school exam I realise how tough it has been.
Continue readingIt has been a funny year and watching my middle son queuing COVID style for his final middle school exam I realise how tough it has been.
Continue readingI have seen several train stations recently and get drawn towards the sharp lines they create. Are they giving real perspective?
Continue readingPeople who ride two wheels in Rome are capable of looking incredibly cool. But you need a Harley?
Continue readingRome is in a yellow zone, curfew at 10pm but what about on a glorious sunny Saturday afternoon?
Continue readingI love bringing the kids to their Saturday morning activities. It was how I remember my weekends – music and sport, friendship and learning.
Continue readingThe hashtag #maratonamentana – the Mentana marathon – what the Italian news anchor on a La7 (channel 7) Enrico Mentana chose to cover the latest Italian political crises exemplifies a singularly heroic approach to something that should really be behind the headlines.
Continue readingI happily confess to enjoying the audacity of Bridgerton currently raging on Netflix but it is one location above all in this salacious period raunch that sends me spinning back to the 80s and Brideshead Revisited.
Continue readingMichael J Fox shares his dreams in the 1993 For Love or Money
Continue readingYou don’t have to go very far in this unique city to find a film crew at work, whether it be a Tom Cruise blockbuster or an Italian mini-series. But have you looked for locations from the past?
Continue readingIt must be years since I saw The Bodyguard or listened to Whitney Houston and my DVD has actually never been opened. So when I saw on TikTock that the album was one of the top ten all time best sellers I went back and had a listen.
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