We’ve passed two milestones in the last couple of days. One is our wedding anniversary – we’ve been married 33 years today. Funnily enough, some neighbours of ours from Warnham also celebrate their significant day today, but were married a few years before us. If you’re reading, Happy Anniversary, George and Vivian!
The other milestone is that Mark is now officially an old age pensioner, but won’t see any money for another four weeks. I am also now 65, but have to wait until September to get mine.
After several damp days it is sunny and warm again, but it is not set to last apparently. I gather the low temperatures, and this amount of rain, is very unusual at this time of year. Unbelievably, the heating is on at school during the day, and we have had it on at home in the evenings too.
The Giro D’Italia (similar to the Tour de France) starts from the main square in Bologna tomorrow, but we have decided to avoid the crowds and head to Modena (about a half hour train ride from here) for the day instead.
If the weather is as bad on Sunday as it is forecast to be, we will make it a housework and homework day. I am enjoying the Italian, but am finding it hard to remember the irregular verbs. I seem to know them at home, but the next day at school my mind is a blank. My former colleagues will recognise this difficulty. Countless parents used to say to me, ‘I can’t understand it. He knew it at home.’ You never know, perhaps I am dyslexic too.
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