This morning was a bit of a slow go. I did some English with Fede and we leant some more parts of the body in English - today was: eat, nose, chin, neck and arm.
I picked some yellow plums from one of their many trees and filled up the plastic bowl for lunch. In the garden they have a fig tree, a yellow plum tree and magnolia and fir among others. Outside lining the wall they have lots of purple miniature plum trees we pick fruit from those too.
Myself and Fede went on a bike ride, we got to the top of the first hill and then my pedal fell off whilst I was riding so we had to turn around and go back. The thread had gone on the inside so I couldn't screw it in by hand. When we got back Stefano used a spanner and fixed it! So me and Fede set out again. The weather was so hot it was awful riding up the hills. But we made it all the way round.
For lunch we had mini pizza calzone things and friend mozzarella balls which tasted divine! And home grown salad.
After lunch I taught Bea and Fede a song on the piano. Did some English with Fede and Bea and read my book a little more.
Stefano got called to be a lawyer for someone caught last night who needed a representative so he had to ride out to Milan. While he was out the builder Elton was painting the shutters at the front of the house. Not the wooden ones, but behind those are some iron ones that their parents installed to prevent more burgularies (previously they had been robbed twice) the white paint was peeling so the were getting them redone.
The shutters for the balcolny in my room had been taken off whilst the tiles were getting redone. The new ones aren't down yet, but the cement things has dried so they got hung back up today. A large spider the kind with the tiny body and long legs in which the front legs are longer than the back had made a home above the balcolny door but Alessandra disposed of it with the vacuum cleaner. Phew! There are too many bugs to catch with glasses so in the interest of time mr vacuum hoover is the answer.
We went to Voghera today which is maybe a 20 minute drive away. They have a small shopping centre thing there like a small junction 32 (Yorkshire) with small fashion shops and a ginormous supermarket. The supermarket was huge and sold everything it was a mix between a cheap and rubbish quality ikea, homebase, Costco and Buyright. You could easily get lost in it. And buy everything you would want but never need.
They had a few fashiony shops most notably H&M and Pull and Bear. They were so busy though and sales aren't what they used to be the sales were so small and like 10% off. Still it was nice to see in some Italian stores. Next week me and Bea are going to go shopping in the big centre in Milan, I am looking forward to seeing Abercrombie and Fitch. Though apparently they don't have sales which sucks as a sale would bring it down to normal price! Apparently in A&F you can get your picture taken with the models Bea has a snap of her and a model on her wall. Interesting idea but not my thing. Apparently they also stand outside to welcome you in...in English...in Italy.
For tea we picked up pizza again I ordered the Americano which is basically Margherita with sausage and chips but they forgot the chips! Better luck next time.
After tea me Bea and Fede hung out practising English and Italian. They kept laughing at me so much bad pronunciation is so not helpful when words spelt similarly but spelt differently mean completely different things. Still it was fun!
Then Stefano and Fede got ready for a motorcross training event which was why they were going to Piacenza tomorrow.
Packing everything into the pickup truck.
Buonanotte.
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