Day One: Book cover

Here we go! Another NaPoWriMo is upon us, one whole month of poems a day. It will be my 6th such April in a row, but the campaign is 20 years old. Extremely well done! And none of it is a joke. Prompt 1: They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but

Thursday Doors 30/3/23 &CFFC: Things people live in

As a step away from my immediate doors here is a compilation post of homes with the strongest appeal, captured in the last ten years in Italy and Slovenia, my roaming grounds. Unsurprisingly, most of them are guarded by green doors. I used to do them often, such compilations, but not in a while. Let

Thursday Doors 23/3/23: Capalbio Scalo primary school 1.

When I returned from my summer vacation in Slovenia last September, the primary school in our little town held not one but three surprises. One of them concerns a certain door that used to make me mad. A convenient shortcut to the train station, which passes through the school courtyard, I have often taken in

Thursday not really Doors 16/3/23: Capalbio Scalo

Previous week I showed you our train station and once I was there, I took the long way home. It lasted an hour to reach it. I wish to show you my walk, no matter that there were not many doors to speak of. But first: Take the fibre, they said. It will be fast,

March 2022

Happy first poppy day! No photo yet but there it was by the road this morning, tiny, alone and first. Here are twenty glances from last March to see how spring was unfolding last year. Of course, the first poppy I already noticed at Christmas, but that was the only one, an anomaly, whereas this

Thursday Doors 9/3/23: Capalbio train station

When I found myself standing in front of an open door of a train, a thought crossed my mind… Dan = doors + trains! Perfect! So yes, this is just behind our tiny train station. Capalbio is the name of the medieval town on the hill 15 minutes away by car, so I can imagine

Last photos of February

Here are two last photos of last month featuring the usual suspects. Very quickly: one dog, the last photo taken with my camera… …and two goofballs, the last one taken with my phone. There was an online carnival again, you see. With good wishes, your Pippi. Bushboy’s rules are simple: 1. Post the last photo

Thursday Doors 2/3/23: Last of 2022 doors

With this post all my last year’s doors worth showing have been showed. Now I’ll really need to go somewhere new. I had a quick look through all my last year’s folders (there are not as many any more) and rescued the last doors that I haven’t showed yet. They are all from around here

February 2022

This post has three parts: a funny re-enactment attempt, a song, and twenty photos from last February for my Calendar series. First, you saw it last year already but I just have to repost this experiment. We had an online carnival last year and bestia had to be the seal. It’s been a while since

Thursday Doors 23/2/23: Ostia

Funny how one can completely forget such a pleasant day. It was the last day of last May when I saw Flavia for the last time (for now). We had lunch in her Ostia by the sea, which is practically still greater Rome, and then strolled a little first in the city where we had