Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Romes orange trees
Always amazes me that Rome is full of orange trees in full fruit at this time of the year. The Via Veneto is lined with them.For a Scot it seems quite exotic to have citrus fruit growing in a city centre but for the Romans they aren't even worthy of comment. Came across this marvellous little art deco parish house near the Defence Ministry - it would be quite at home in Austria or Slovenia but is an altogether alien presence in classical Rome.
2004 - We sell the farm in Scotland and move to the warmth of southern Europe. 2 lively Polish Lowland Sheepdogs - Wilf and Digby - our patient and comical companions. After a year in Provence we head to Italy to restore a hilltop Roman watchtower . Following an unpleasant 'housejacking' in late 2009 we set off for new adventures in South West Franceto get to grips with a large and exceedingly rickety old farmhouse. Empty nesters life after the violence of Italy has a gentler tempo. Digby passed on from piroplasmosis in May 2010. HIs brother, despite being diagnosed with cancer and having become blind ,soldiered on for another two years. Bob and Sophie joined us in 2013. Bob passed on in 2019. Sophie enjoyed the fresh air in Scotland after we returned in late 2022 but ran ahead in the summer of 23. This blog records all those little things about living with dogs that are too unimportant to make it into a diary but which make life, life.
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