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As I sit here waiting for my latest upgrade on viruses from Microsoft to download because  I have suffered from the latest infection on my computer from someone who has nothing better to do with their life than try to make it as hard as possible for innocent people to go about theirs. I thought I might as well start to update this month’s news, on my new computer which was meant to make life easier, apart from bugs and infections getting in. I suppose it is a sad fact of life that the internet, while being one of the great advances toward a smaller world and with great potential still to come also draws sad backward thinking people. If only they could use their undoubted skills, into constructive rather than destructive avenues what even greater leaps we could make into the future.
The latest news is that our other web site http://www.ouritaly.co.uk will also carry this news bulletin, but with a twist. One of our daughters thinks my writing skills leave a lot to be desired, so she will be taking this update and editing it professionally; my skills are not up to her standards. I will welcome your input into this; for the moment I will keep my own style of writing on, so hopefully you will still be able to recognise me from my ramblings. Let me know which version you prefer
Autumn is drawing closer now, as we have had to have a truck load of logs delivered to see us through the short (we hope) but very cold winter. Having prepared properly like real Italians this year, we are hoping that summer will last a while longer yet, and winter will be a mild affair this time. As the cost of any type of fuel here is just so expensive, so the less we use the better. We are feeling more confident about the access to our house through the worst of the weather now, as the new road should improve things greatly I have promised not to say any more about our “white road” as the family think we are becoming obsessed with issues that have no importance, they should try living here on a permanent basis.
 But apart from this life in Italy is still good, and we have had an “Italian” summer just as we hoped they would be here, after the past two years when it was actually better in England. It has been hot since Easter without a letup, there has almost no rain in fact it has only rained four times since then although it does look likely to change from now on.
Life this month has been pretty busy with our house management jobs, B&B, and apartment, in spite of the rest of Italy being on holiday for almost the whole of August. Also we now have the next instalment of the dogs saga to endure, as Poppy is now in season, so we will try to avoid the problems we had with “baby” Daisy and her encounter with an Italian stud (last month).
Life has settled into a “Mediterranean” lifestyle for us now, living alfresco from spring to late autumn surrounded by good company and friends as one might say “living the dream”. It does mean for us we have to live it as a local person would, which entails working hard to earn an income and then enjoying the social life to the full. But all in all we are achieving everything we planned on, although at times it did all seem that the dream was just that and nothing more.
Now back to reality I have to e-mail this to Hayley for editing to include in our other site, then outside to put a pen back up, to keep Poppy safe from any local Italian “Casanova” dogs for the next week life is hard.
Okay a couple days on and I have the edited version the first vote goes to me because it’s my site! I feel Hayley and Rob are right, theirs does read better but then I always new it would. They also came up with a couple of good ideas,one to put up some of Liz’s great pickle recipe’s which will be easy to do, harder will be the second idea which is to do some reviews on the local restaurants. I am not sure of my skills on reviews as some of the local food is superb and I would need to do it justice but maybe with a little help from my editors it might just be on so watch this space!
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Just a quick update on our two young dogs now fully grown and real 