It's a quiet month for news. Mr.Berlusconi , the Italian Prime Minister, has gone off on holidayto his villa in Sardinia and according to the papers ' will be swimming for an hour a day, and enjoying low fat meals'. Elsewhere the only other issue that the Italian papers consider newsworthy is the increasingly strident attacks on plans for US healthcare reform. Town Hall meeting anger makes a much better story than a rational examination of options for Medicaid funding.
Here in the village preparations for the summer carnival proceed apace . The car park outside the church has been roped off and the first of the refreshment tents has gone up. While I was downing my morning coffee at the bar a large truck trailer arrived outside carrying the sections for the stage. This will be laboriously erected outside the church during the course of the day with a group of twenty of thirty octogenarian locals in attendance each one loudly offering advice (all of it conflicting). Posters for the this years 'acts' are being pasted on the noticeboard and the first of the festive banners has started to appear outside the village shops. The rising sense of excitement in the village is now palpable.
Posted are the first photos of the boyz taken with the new phone. When I started the blog I said that I would only use the camera in the cellular so that I could download updates quickly. To my surprise the quality hasn't been too bad although trying to get the boyz to sit still for any length of time is a challenge. In the top two pictures Digby looks particularly unhappy at being photgraphed while Wilf takes everything stoically (as long as it doesn't involve water).
