CV - motion

This week Corner view theme suits me more than perfectly, as I'm traveling around like mad lately. Not that I travel long distances, but I indeed move between houses quite a lot. Let's hope to achieve some peace soon…..



OK, I know, I shouldn't take pictures while driving…..

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CV - The colors of january

Sorry for using photos from last year…..

The colors of january here in Pavia are usually bleak, but when the sun comes out it's all magic!







PS And these are the colors in Australia in January









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CV - A good read

The Corner view theme this weeks suits me quite a lot: I love reading, and I had said I was going to make, now and then, a recapitulation of what I did in 2013, just to keep the memories. So it's not a dull list, but simply a way to … write down memories, which is partly what is about reading. If I may say….

2013 has been a very good reading year, with a grand total of 26 books read. In part this is due to me having now an e-book reader (actually I bought it two years ago), which has allowed me to always have a book in my purse, which is quite handy considering that I happen to travel unexpectedly and leave without passing from home so often. Of course I do continue to read paper books, which I love immensely.



My reads where quite hectic as usual: a lot of relaxing mystery books (All the Chesterton "Padre Brown misteries", two books from Andrea Camilleri, a favorite of mine), some thought-provoking books (I loved Serena Dandini's "Dai diamanti non nasce niente", Trevor waldock's "to plant a walnut tree", Nicolai Lilin's "educazione siberiana" and Frank Mc Court's "Le ceneri di Angela". Finally a book I loved a lot was by Chade-Meng Tang,  "Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)", that despite the title is a witty and interesting book, about aman working for google. Titels are in the language I read the book in :-)! Finally I read a couple of sic-fi books, a genre I do love quite a lot!

Corner view is a weekly appointment hosted by Francesca at Fuoriborgo, where lovely participants from all over the world gather together once a week to share incredible ideas and experiences.

Take time….

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.

Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let

reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in

whatever way they like.”

– Lao-Tzu

I'm reading this from Leo Babuta in his "Focus - A simplicity manifesto" - free version.
All these things are known, but they are put together so beautifully here. A refreshing read.

CV- Light and darkness

And so a new Corner View year starts! Happy new year to all readers and corner-viewers, it is great to find you all for another year….
"Light and darkness" seems the perfect theme for a new start, last year was full of shadows and happenings, and maybe now the time to harvest plenty of initiated and not terminated things has come? Let's walk towards it and see what happens…...


Corner view is a weekly appointment hosted by Francesca at Fuoriborgo, where lovely participants from all over the world gather together once a week to share incredible ideas and experiences.

New Year resolutions

So it's that time again, a new year has started, and I think: "uh, oh, it's months I don't' update the blog. This year I'll be more caring for that blog, and I'll post more often". Well, let's see if this is going to be the case!
For sure in the next days I'll write about my 2013 accomplishments (at least knitting-wise), and maybe I'll say something about plans and dreams.
Last year has been really busy and full of things happening, the big things are still there to be accomplished, but a lot of forward motion happened last year, so that now I shall have some results this year, at least if no surprises happen!
So stay tuned….

CV - Before and after

Before and after, is the flow of life, which right now is a bit chaotic. So I'll concentrate on a recent, nice hobby: spinning

Before




and after



Before



and after:



Now I just need a little time to knit it!



Corner view is a weekly appointment hosted by Francesca at Fuoriborgo, where lovely participants from all over the world gather together once a week to share incredible ideas and experiences.

corner view - what to do in....... Italy! (your country)

I'm back after a long silence, it's again super busy here, but this doesn't mean I cannot give you suggestions about what to do here... Oh, well, just do what you like, relax, look life happen and participate in it!











Corner view is a weekly appointment hosted by Francesca at Fuoriborgo, where lovely participants from all over the world gather together once a week to share incredible ideas and experiences.

Bottle caps curtain - update

As some of you three readers know, I have had this beautiful, useful and entertaining project for years now: making a bottle caps curtain. The collection of the caps is progressing, and gives me a huge number of chatting opportunities and I made new friends through it!



I have even started to make the holes in the caps, after much mulling and tool using!



A colleague calculated the required number of caps, but I have promptly forgotten it, and keep merrily going on without worrying.





At least I have made a test to see if it works....



It still needs some improvements, but we are getting there! Much more soon....

september

At least I managed to make 13 August Break posts, I consider this as a major achievement.
Apart from working A LOT I have at least also knitted quite a bit..... and managed to finish, amongst other things, my yearly Melbourne pullover!!



Stay tuned.... ;-)

AB - 13. home

Ab - 12. far away

AB - 11. play

AB - 10 red

AB - 9 taste

AB - 8. a selfie

AB - 7. skyline

AB - 6. diagonals

AB - 5. close up

AB - 4. love