Jan's Rustic Life

Jan's Rustic Life

Tag: family life in Italy

  • Spring Is In The Air

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    Well I never, it’s been a long time since I last posted. Sanremo, our challenge that is, went well, then badly. I was winning, then second, then, last! My team didn’t high five enough or do the point earning things! I’ve been spinning in the sun. The weather has really perked up and we have…

  • Freezing Cold But It’sSanremo, Again!

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    It’s freezing cold here at the moment with a real feel of -7 degrees. We had a cosy and comforting hot lentil and grain soup with seedy bread for dinner. Not only that but it’s also that time of year again! Sanremo! Even here in our rustic lives, Sanremo reaches us. We don’t normally watch…

  • A Week Of Snuggly Cosiness!

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    When you feel so cold, so very cold, nothing lights your day! You can’t imagine what it’s like to be warm or what it’s like to feel the sun in summer. It really is a low, low feeling. We have had our wood delivered and I have to confess that I decided to embark on…

  • La Befana After Two Years

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    I went to the first La Befana celebrations in our local town for two years this week. Everyone was certainly in high spirits. For those of you who don’t know, La Befana, until recently was more celerated than Santa and children here now get to celebrate Father Christmas coming on 25 December as well as…

  • Back In The Studio

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    Four days into the new year of 2023 and I’ve made it back into my studio. I’m illustrating a children’s book. It’s a project that I can get on with now since I’ve lost my job. The idea has been in my mind for a couple of years and that I took seriously in June…

  • Happy New Year

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    A very happy New Year to all! Let’s hope that 2023 brings peace, health and happiness to all. It’s New Year’s day and tomorrow I start to rebuild and reform my life routines, style and other aspects of my being after losing my job, 5 days before Christmas. I have deliberately taken this time to…

  • Christmas 2022

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    So, Christmas day 2022 has been and gone. What a wonderful day we all had. My fantastic kids, who know me better than anyone ever could, bought me some wonderful presents which are absolutely in keeping with, well, me. A very swish palette for my watercolour painting. I’ve been making do with an old, and…

  • 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…

  • 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…