Jan's Rustic Life

Jan's Rustic Life

Tag: expat life in Italy

  • A Positive Outlook Is Everything

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    After losing my job a couple of days ago, I have to admit that I’ve found it very strange. Since 2014, every day, bar one last November when I managed to get the day off, I have had to think of work. Every day meaning weekends too! I literally had to work every day. It…

  • I Lost My Job Today

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    Well actually it was yesterday but I had it confirmed today. So although I thought I lost my job yesterday, I lost my job today too! I will write about the last fifteen or so years one day but not today. Today I want to write about losing my job. The job that came at…

  • Life Is Strange!

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    Life is very odd isn’t it? I intended this post to be about Christmas preparations and mince pie making and indeed it will get to that but I found out today that I may have lost my job! The last 12 or so years have been tight financially and I have learned to live on…

  • Christmas Spirit And New Ceiling

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    I haven’t posted for such a long time. I am the type of person who can’t settle if I know that someone is coming, whether to visit or do some work. I can’t just carry on as normal, I’ve tried but I get very twitchy, if you know what I mean. Now you know that…

  • A Whole Week Has Gone By

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    I can’t believe that a whole week has gone by since my last post. I have been waiting for the ceiling guy to come and finish off my ceilings and I also managed to fit in a trip to a shopping mall near Florence, the Gigli! The Gigli was adorned with all things sparkling and…

  • IKEA Trip

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    I went on a trip to IKEA today after work today. I needed a blind for my son’s room and I wanted to look at some festive things and get ideas for our Christmas home. My daughter was in a festive mood so we went together. We normally have our lunch there so we don’t…

  • Windows In, Warmer For Winter

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    What a busy time. I spend Sunday covering my ceiling panels with plastic sheeting to follow good building practise. This will prevent any condensation forming between the insulating panels. My windows guy, let me down but as the plastic was going on, we’d have got in each other’s way. I was with my friend the…

  • Today I Have Been Spinning Green Silk

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    Today, and, well the last few days, I’ve been spinning some beautiful green silk. Nothing unusual about that some of you may say, unless, of course you don’t spin. The thing is, I’ve been wanting to spin this silk for over a year but haven’t known how I should approach it. Then, I got scared…

  • Starting Christmas Already!

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    Wow I haven’t posted for a couple of days. I spent Sunday, the day after my pizza, clearing room and cleaning ready for the windows guys who were supposed to be coming to install my windows. I wanted them to have enough room and also to minimise the clearing up afterwards. All done but I…

  • What A Difference 24 Hours Make

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    The difference in days! Yesterday morning I looked out at my balcony view, as I will now call it, and saw that we were just about to be eaten by a big cloud! The day was gloomy and full of the things I didn’t really want to be doing. Do you have days like that?…