Ah September. Back to work, back to school, back to renovations, and the month where frantic harvest preparation begin. Inside the “house”, The Builder and his team are back, working from Too Early o’clock until Tea Time, with only a … Continue reading Harvest Preparations

August is a strange month in Italy. By day it’s too hot to breathe or eat, and by night it’s too hot to sleep. August is a month for recharging one’s batteries, a month for taking life slowly. Really slowly. … Continue reading Summer In, and Out Of Sabina

Twenty nine years ago today, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. And so, Scott and I nipped down to the registry office on a Saturday morning, and got married. We did this mainly because we loved each other and wanted to be … Continue reading A Moving Tale

Three weeks on from my last blog post, and we’re still waiting for the plumber to come to work. He was sighted briefly one morning last week, wandering around the site drinking a bottle of coca cola, but then he … Continue reading Construction Site Living

I’m feeling rather sorry for the two chaps who work for The Builder this week. Having dug out 120 metres of old floor, and smashed their way through every internal wall on the ground floor, they were all set to … Continue reading Hot, Hot, Hot, in 50 Shades of Green

Hello Dear Reader, remember me? I’m the one that used to blog weekly about my little farm in the Sabina hills. Then I blogged monthly, and then the world started turning so fast that I had no time to blog … Continue reading May-hem, and Buon Lavoro

I was never much of a fan of Wet, Wet, Wet: Marti Pellow was just not my kind of heart throb. And I am definitely not a fan of Wet, Wet, Wet when it comes to the weather. April has … Continue reading Wine-ing in the Spring

I really don’t know why I haven’t sat down and written about last week’s commemoration at Montebuono. I have done literally nothing but talk about it ever since the event, but I’ve struggled to find a way to describe it … Continue reading Commemorations at Montebuono

Back in February, I wrote about how overwhelmed we were feeling with all that we had to achieve at Olive Hill, in this blog post. Having just reread it myself, I thought that now might be a good time to … Continue reading Fresh Challenges, and Pastures New