We've been (yet again) flooded...
And, since it's now happened so often, we knew exactly what to do...(which bits of furniture to go upstairs; shoes to be removed from the Lavanderia floor; anything not in plastic containers to be taken from low shelves in the pantry; books to be safely rescued from rising water level; curtains hauled up onto window ledges)..
Except, this time, rather than spend hours (and hours) trying to combat the onslaught, and to mop and swab, back-breakingly, until dry land was once more sighted...we just said 'bugger it', and grabbed the makings of a picnic from the kitchen, and retreated upstairs, to watch a rather good documentary on the fall of the Berlin Wall, while the house downstairs just filled with water (in a way that we couldn't have done anything to prevent, anyway).
Moving house can't come soon enough!
Tonight's dinner (still without hot water, two days later):
Tomato tarts (from a recipe loosely based on something by Alain Ducaisse)
Bavese (pasta) with smothered onions
Fresh pineapple, with generous servings of mascarpone
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