Though to be fair I was not bombed or attacked and a lot of other nasty things didn’t happen to me.

I was just happily painting a commission and feeling quite pleased with myself…..

When I thought I’d have another try at paying my electric bill and now have managed to be blocked from my Italian bank and still not paid the electric bill. This all took several hours.

Then just to add to the general ” merriment ” I got a letter from  UK pensions ( only taken 3 weeks to arrive) saying that I needed to prove that I was alive or they would stop my pension until I did. It involves finding someone official (ish) to affirm that I’m not dead. And I have about 12 weeks to get this sorted. There is no way that I’m going to post a letter from Pisticci so luckily I will be back in the UK in August and should be able to get it done in time. I phoned and spoke to someone and it doesn’t have to be an Italian confirming I’m alive.

My internet bill arrived today. I’m not touching it for a few days, I’m too spooked.

On the plus side I did try by myself to sort the electric bill problem out and I know what went wrong. I’ll go to the bank tomorrow and hopefully fix it. ( I’m not going tonight because I might cry if someone wasn’t nice…… and it’s possible there will be a thunderstorm.

At least I phoned the pensions people and didn’t have to wait more than 2 minutes before I spoke to a very nice lady who confirmed that I could sort this out in Scotland in August.

This time I kept reminding myself that I wasn’t entirely on my own and I could ask for help if I got really stuck.

It wasn’t always like that. ( Mostly because I would never ask .)

I started another painting for the exhibition today based on a photo of Sam when she was a toddler. I don’t like it very much so far …but that’s what I thought about the last painting at this stage.

So I guess I did okay today. I tried to do a lot of things and I didn’t book a flight to Scotland tomorrow to sort out the ” am I alive” problem.

Good luck to me at the bank tomorrow.  I’m generally more optimistic in the mornings.

Cheers🍷🍷