That’ll be just A in Milan, now, I guess

I am speechless! Gobsmacked! Incredibly angry and not angry all at the same time depending on what bit I focus on.

So much so, that I just can’t talk about it. Maybe later when it’s all sorted (if it all gets sorted).

The subject being V, cars, money, not thinking ahead or being responsible, etc.

Of course, V says it’s for me - but really it’s for him as well. V shouldn’t be allowed to be spoken to by salespeople. I should have been there.

Had a few problems over the last few days. As you may know by this post I had the problems with ADSL. At the end of it, methinks, it was almost certainly Alice’s fault (Alice being the brand name for Telecom Italia’s ADSL service and not some random girl; it’s actually pronounced aleechay and not aliss).

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Don’t. Go to the UK. Buy a car over there. Tax and insure it. Spend 2 days driving it over here. Job done and everybody happy.

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Well, summer has truly started. Not only is it hot, and I mean hot all the time, even during the night, but the mozzies are well and truly back - big time.

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In the UK, if someone suggests a trip out, where you were going to travel for two hours to get there and two to get back, you would tend to make a day of it. So, for instance, when we lived in Herefordshire and you decided to go to, let’s say Aberystwyth, you would set of at, say, 10 a.m., reach Aberystwyth, have lunch, enjoy the afternoon having a walk around and set off home at 6 or 7 p.m.

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OK there’s this site I look at from time to time. It has funny short videos. But this latest one which is about 10 minutes long, is very good and very funny. A little like Groundhog Day but well made in my opinion. Enjoy.

I tried to embed it but it didn’t work so here is the link

For the main Funny or Die site, go here.

I know I’m not the first and I know I’m not the last, but it doesn’t help really. The story goes thus:

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This could be subtitled ‘Essential words when you come to Italy’.

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After V had received a telephone call from friends we were on the way to visit. They had told him where to go and he was repeating some of it back (as you do). But I wasn’t really listening.

A - Where are we going?

V - What did I just say?

A - I don’t know. That’s what I’m asking, where are we going?

V - I don’t know that’s why I asked you if you heard what I just said.

It’s a surreal conversation and you just had to be there. I think that could almost be a Quarsan saying; although, to be honest, his are usually better. After that I just kept completely silent.

Apparently Milan is the 11^th most expensive city in the world! I’m surprised it is so low in the table. It’s a struggle, for certain. However, I wouldn’t swap it for anywhere else.