This morning, after another wakeful night, I let Fluffy in for breakfast.  Today she chose to sleep on the back of my chair.

I went up town to see if the magic money man had reappeared…..but no.

Then it was time to go shopping.

I’m now in a not unusual situation.

Someone is meeting me tomorrow morning to talk about something. Even translating the message after the phone call didn’t help. It could be someone arranging to fix the crack in the beam. Or not!

Then someone stopped in their car and said they wanted a portrait and would drop by tonight. Maybe!.

And I might be helping to set up a nativity scene…..or not.

There is some sort of competition, I think, to chose the most Christmassy area in Pisticci. Not sure if I’m supposed to take photos.

There is also an event in the comune.

I’m not actually sure if I spoke better Italian that I would know any better what was going on.

I thought about painting this afternoon, but instead I had to rush up to Piazza San Rocco to collect my new phone from the courier, who was very grateful. Maybe not everyone is as obliging.

As I have about sixteen thousand photos on my phone I asked CHATGPT  what was the easiest way to tidy them up and not just download them on to my new phone. I have a “thing” with 512 Gb for storage. Spent an hour and a half trying to copy all my photos onto it. But it stopped halfway so I’ve deleted them all and will need to start again. Drat!

I lit the pellet stove tonight again as I was cold.

Today was full of little things.  I half heartedly weeded my pots, and hung out some washing.

I’m glad it’s the weekend. It is good to be ” involved” in so many unknown events. That does make for an exciting life. But this weekend I’m thinking of getting my photos sorted out. Perhaps I could be more organised in the future! I haven’t even thought about changing sim cards and starting to use my new phone.

It’s nice and warm here now.

Cheers🍷🍷