Path to Self Sufficiency

I'm out of commission for a couple of days due to sore toe.  Nothing serious, but I need to give it couple of days rest.  Shame, as the ...

The first week of the year the weather was quite good giving us a chance to start on some of the repairs to our terraces.  Some are of cours...

Ok I know.  Not very impressive those fireworks as taken from our 'terrace' towards La Spezia, but the zoom on my camera has packed ...

Just to give you an idea what the rain was like about 2 km from our land.  No wonder Arcola, which is situated on that same road looked like...

In the famous words of the Queen, this truly has been an Anus Miserabilis (a miserable arse of a year, excuse my French!)  Yields on everyth...

When we had snow during our first winter here back in 2004/5 they told us that this close to the coast it only happened every 25 years or so...

Thanks Veggie PAK for this link. This is a good and easy to understand video on where things are going wrong in our present system. The...