We've had rather an English May: after a promising start, not very warm and lots of rain. Snow returned to the mountains on the 25th and Pat's fired up the central-heating in the evening a few times since then. The return of my sciatica - with a vengeance - has been a possible by-product of the cold weather. I'm reduced to taking a shooting-stick with me when walking the dogs, so that every ten minutes or so I can sit down briefly. I'm reluctant to go back to the quack as she'll only give me another dose of drugs which merely seem to alleviate the problem temporarily rather than effecting a permanent cure. I've downloaded the iPad sciatica app (!) which contains exercises to ease the pain- maybe they'll help.
Had dinner with Glyn at the Taverna in Santa Vittoria on the 4th whilst Pat was away, and Peppe and Angiola came to lunch on the 17th before we all went down to Centro Ippico San Lorenzo to visit Daisy. Jane Fineren arrived on the 25th and Tony and Shona on the 29th. Norman and Jayne are due to arrive tomorrow.
Have received Professor Pierdominici's italian translation of de La Sale's text and incorporated it in the latest draft of The Sybil of the Apennines. We're now only waiting on his Introduction for Italian readers for it to go to press. Unfortunately, there has been such a long delay since the project began, that we've missed the boat as far as funding from the Mountain Community goes. However, Peppe thinks there are there sources he can tap.
And that's it: we're off to the UK on Wednesday for five days to renew my passport if all goes well.
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