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

The other day, at work, Gianni asked me:

‘Do you like David Bowie?’

‘Yes’, I replied, ‘Why?’

‘Because you look a bit like him’

Now, for me, David Bowie, throughout his life, has been one of the most handsome men I have ever seen. There is something about him that oozes style.

I don’t really think I look anything like him but I was chuffed with the compliment, all the same.

It’s not all done and dusted yet but it’s getting there.

Last night it was the revisit to the flat-with-the-terrace with my friend. She had already decided that this was the flat I should have.

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Last night, one of my friends picked me up and we went to Blender Bar. On the way we passed the perfect-flat-on-the-perfect-street. I described that flat and also the flat-with-the-terrace. My friend lives closer to my current flat and so it will come as no surprise that he prefers the perfect-flat-on-the-perfect-street, since it means we can still go for a drink from time to time as he is on his way back from work..

This afternoon, whilst it is still light, I go with my other friend (who lives in Isola) to see the flat-with-the-terrace before, supposedly, going to see the owner of the perfect-flat-on-the-perfect-street. Unsurprisingly, she (my friend from Isola) would prefer me to take the flat-with-the-terrace. Especially since said terrace will allow for bbqs and sunbathing – she likes to be tanned in the summer. After all, it looks much better with white clothes, doesn’t it?.

So, now, the choice is much easier, isn’t it? Or perhaps not.

So my friend, last night, was saying that as the flat-with-the-terrace didn’t have a kitchen, it would be too expensive to fit one. My Isola-friend says, of course, it will not be expensive and it will be quite easy to do. She said, this morning, after informing me of the appointment to see the flat-with-the-terrace that, after viewing, we should just cancel the appointment with the owner of the perfect-flat-on-the-perfect-street!

Still, it is nice to feel wanted, particularly right now.

Meanwhile, V & I have ‘made an appointment’ for Sunday to discuss the dividing of the ’stuff’. We have to make the appointment because we have, more or less since the end of December, been leading entirely separate lives- sometimes, not even seeing each other for days at a time! It’s a strange period indeed.

Now things have become more difficult. I went to see a flat last night. It is, more or less, the same price as the perfect-flat-on-the-perfect-street (or can be, according to the guy showing me round). It has good and bad points. On the plus side is the following:

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Opportunities occur in your life from time to time. Things that happen where choices must be made. As I have said before, I have been lucky in my life. But, with that luck, comes the taking of opportunities when they arise. One cannot sit there with one’s thumb in one’s mouth just waiting. Sure, things may happen and come one’s way unexpectedly – good or bad – but you still have to do something.

And, in my life, faced with someone saying that I cannot do something or that something is too difficult or, even, impossible, can, on occasion, make me fight that much harder to get what I want or what I think I want.

We came here and there were opportunities. I’m not sure that they were taken. I don’t regret what I have done and I feel that I have taken many of them but I feel that there were some, out of my control, that were allowed to slip by. The repercussions of which remain and which may have led to this point in my life.

Still, sometimes, you don’t recognise the significance or long-term effects of the choices and the actions you make.

As you may have noticed, I have decided to go back to the old way of doing posts. I decided that the whole blog looked a little boring and need ’spicing up a bit’.

So, for those of you newer readers, it goes like this.

Type the title of the post into Google and do an image search. Select an image from the first page – any image you like but always from the first page of results. Use that image.

As I have said in the past, should anyone be unhappy about the use of an image and is the owner, please contact me and I shall remove it.

I found three other possibles for a place to live, on the internet. One was an agency (sort of) as I phoned it myself.

My friend came round just after 6. She phoned the other two. One was an agency but would take no commission and the other was an agency. Also we phoned the flat-in-the-building-we-both-like but there was no answer as it must be an office or something.

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I remember, when I was a buyer for an Engineering company in Dursley, There was a sales guy that, over the phone, I used to get on with really well. Over a period of a year or so, we built up quite a good relationship – more than just the work thing.

In my head he looked a certain way. He was tall, blond-haired, good looking, etc. His voice sounded that way.

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I hate supermarket shopping. It almost always seems to put me in a bad mood, even thinking about it.

V is cooking dinner tonight so I thought I would go and get a bottle of win. Oh, yes, and some milk.

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“He’s going to live there on his own?”

The old man was incredulous. You could see him thinking how strange these foreigners are.

“Yes”, my friend replied. “He needs a studio”.

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