It was nice enough to eat breakfast outside again. Brutto joined me, but wasn’t interested in sharing my breakfast . He disdainfully licked the mayonnaise off some egg white and then strolled off. He prefers a spoonful of mayonnaise on its own.

This week my plan is to get all the canvases ready for this month’s work. So I made another 2 stretchers.

Then after speaking to someone who knows about saws, I ordered a new one. It should arrive on Wednesday.

Following that I watched someone on youtube paint poppies and made it look so easy. My biggest commission this month will be mostly poppies. It’s always good to get some help.

After lunch I went to the bank.

The visit to the bank was not at all helpful.

Several rude words spring to mind when all I want to do is pay a bill , for which I have the money , but is proving horrendously difficult to organise thanks to the post office being so slow to deliver mail. ( bills arrive after the date they were supposed to be paid. )so I am trying to organise to pay it from the bank. It was so much easier to just take the paper bill into the tabacchi every 2 months, hand over a €50 note and get a receipt.

Will try again tomorrow.

Children from 5 to 11 are now being vaccinated here. If I understood correctly 1500 have already been given the vaccine. There were 10 positives in Pisticci today.

Am glad it’s wine time. Tomorrow is another bill paying day.

Cheers 🍷🍷