One year on

I sat down this evening to read a book after a good day … with a bottle of prosecco open.

And there’s lots more to do.  

The blacksmith is coming out to measure for front gates and fence. The septic will be pumped out.  Very important.  

Excavation of the garden will happen and gravel for the drive will arrive.  

Robert Armstrong, a local from Peelwood in NSW and an olive oil producer, will come to stay.

The wonderful Arezzo antique market is on again next Saturday.  It’s been going for a hundred years. It always on the first weekend of the month.  There will be hundreds of stalls.

I’m using an app on my phone to translate my spoken English into spoken Italian. Couldn’t do without it. It enables me to sort out all sorts of things.

The roof is now completely finished.   I am very pleased with the new technology they used (no cement).

I’m organising an Australian wine tasting for the locals. It will happen at the top of the main street of Anghiari. That’s the very beautiful medieval walled town in the photograph on the home-page of this website.

I’m expecting 30 people. 

In the meantime, I’ve found old floor tiles for the ground floor. And it’s only a year to the day that I first saw the house.  Wow.   Now to the second glass of prosecco. Ciao