We must have been eating pizza that night. Shocking stereotype, I know, but I am sure we get the same treatment. Especially these days.
Pisa is the preferred EasyJet airport in Italy from Bristol. Everyone says what a dump the town is, but I like it. It has some really good little out-of-the-way bars and restaurants in it too. I had the best rosé wine ever in one once. Cloudy and unfiltered. Wonderfully chilled on a warm Summer night.
How is my Bottarga getting on I hear you ask? I don't know. I will go and check up on it today. I want it so dry that it turns into dust when grated.
How is my Night-Scented Stock getting on? Thanks for asking. I meant to give you an update ages ago but forgot. I chose the best of your advice which was confirmed by a gardener friend of ours who paid a flying visit from Scotland. She looked at the pathetic little seedlings and said "They will be alright with nutrients in the water."
So I went out and bought some plant food. They rallied and are now about three inches tall. They will always be runts in a trough, but they look as though they are going to flower. If they get around to inventing a Smellophone by that time I will give you a call on another warm Summer night.
Nothing that a bit of good food can't deal with then.
ReplyDeleteSpoken like a lady who lunches.
DeleteMost Italian rats love their mother and have a tattoo with a heart on their arm, it's not a stereotype, that's the way it is in the world.
ReplyDeleteThat's true.
DeleteYou have a wonderful series of rat paintings, they're lovely.
ReplyDeleteI used to do one every day, but I don't seem to have the time now. Strange.
DeleteI remember my people visiting Pisa; their photos of the buildings surrounding the actual 'leaning tower' were far more impressive than the tower itself. Maybe people should be encouraged to visit the 'non-leaning buildings of Pisa'.
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DeleteWhen I was a child we had a picture of the leaning tower of Pisa in our family encyclopedia, the book I knew off by heart of course. I used to think it was stupid that they couldn't build straight because on the farm we could build perfect buildings. I think it put me off Italy for ever. Rat is versatile in his repertoire. I have only ever been to Venice and there they don't have proper streets.
ReplyDeleteThe streets are always wet in Venice.
DeleteThey stood all the buildings in a lagoon and then wondered why they had a problem with flooding.
DeleteAnd then they had a bridge fall down. I was only 8 and I could see all these things happening.
DeleteMy god, you must be a prophetess (that's a female prophet in case Cro and his people were wondering). Why has the world not listened to your warnings before?
DeleteAt first I thought that you meant us bloglanders with "runts in a trough". Strangely, I didn't find it insulting, at all.
ReplyDeleteI can think of a similar bit better description, but dare not say it.
DeleteI believe you are entering the land of pleasant. Possibly a capital P, Pleasant. Or perhaps it's Content. Whatever, it's good.
ReplyDeleteIt will be short lived.
DeleteRunts in a Trough is the name of my next album.
ReplyDeleteAwaiting your Bottarga update.
Or band.
DeleteWe've got a church tower like that that leans quite impressively and has done for nearly 500 hundred years. It's dedicated to Saint Vitus ...
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DeleteI like Pisa .... I like all of the Italian places that I have been ..... it is our favourite holiday destination. I like it when the towns haven’t been touristified !!!! Atrani, next to Amalfi was untouched when we went and glorious but now, it’s been given a face lift and not half as nice but, they need our tourist money which is fair enough. I did ask about your night scented stock a couple of weeks ago. XXXX
ReplyDeleteA couple of weeks ago I didn't know. I was saying yesterday that I don't mind the tourists in Bath, but I do mind their prices. I was sitting in a rare outside bar near the abbey, drinking a pint of beer which cost £5.30.
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