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Saturday, 19 October 2024

Meanwhile, Back in Pisa...

 We've been (yet again) flooded...


This time, worse than ever...

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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