Jan's Rustic Life

Jan's Rustic Life

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  • 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…

  • It Was So Cold

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    Another couple of weeks have passed since my last post. I don’t do very well in the cold and it was so cold. We ran out of wood. As I lost my job and a tight budget is now needed, we thought we’d have to wait until after some money came in at the end…

  • A Hectic Couple Of Weeks

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    It’s been too long since I wrote. I have had a couple of busy-ish weeks and even though I wanted to write my blog earlier in the day, I’ve been doing things as well as getting sleepy of an evening so my writing has slipped a bit. My son has gone to university and has…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…