Summer at A&E

Ciao tutti

Time for an update. Just coming off a big nite at friends, feelin' mellow, relaxed, hope same goes for you. Summer's hit and we're all sweltering. Afternoon siestas and sleeping with nowt but a sheet over. Hammock's slung in the shade of the mulberry, breakfast, lunch, supper and Earl Grey breaks happening on the deck. Cherries and figs ripening and miniature bunches of grapes taking place of the vine flowers.

Tractor activity pretty much zero just now as Luciano took a tumble on thursday and fractured a foot. Seems the tractor was parked on an incline in a field while he was sorting the hay cutting device slung on the rear when the tractor started to roll downhill. Superhero Luciano leaps into action and jumped onto the moving tractor but was unable to scale the steps up into the cab, leapt off, landed badly, broken bone the result. I volunteered for the hospital run only to bump into another of our Italian neighbours in accident & emergency (suspected ulcer/s) and the lovely proprietor from Le Logge restaurant (health query undisclosed). Quite the social hub, Macerata hospital. Luciano's fixed up with motocross style boot affair instead of plaster to keep all in place but understandably going out of his mind with frustration. Will be at least a month before physio therapy kicks in. Tractor stopped of own accord just two or three metres away. The sort of drama we can all do without!!