Teresa cut my hair today for the first time for several months. Her salon had been closed since the birth of her second child, Lorenzo. Yesterday the baker’s reopened, having been shut since early April owing to Enzo having been taken seriously ill. The petrol station shut several months ago. Peppe, the proprietor is elderly, and having seen a death notice for a Peppe in his 80s posted in the village the day his business closed we not only assumed that he’d passed away but emailed some of the day-boys to that effect.
A few weeks ago, whilst working in the orto we were astonished to see him strolling past on the arm of a Russian carer. Now we know how Mary Magdalen felt. While I’m jolly glad he’s still in the land of the living, I wish someone would get his business up and running: he supplied us with our gas cylinders which now have to be obtained from his son who lives on the outskirts of the village, rather than a comfortable stroll away.
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