2026 in Verona….the woman in the mirror…

I think today, because I was tired , it occurred to me that I might not talk to anyone for a month … then I thought of covid, and decided it would be fine.

I was lying on the bed at the time and when I looked up there was the woman in the mirror grinning back at me.

She looks perfectly capable of managing a month happily.

So I cheered up and got on with stuff.

I was awake at 5am and wrote about 600 words of whatever came into my mind. My plan is to record in writing something every day, then rewrite it to make sense and thirdly edit it to sound okay grammatically etc.

After that I tried to have a healthy breakfast.

That biscuit includes 17% peanut butter.

This morning I thought that I’d go down to the river where I saw a nice cafe yesterday. I am such a coward! Looked in, decided there were too many people and walked on.

I had a lovely walk by the river and over another bridge. I found 2 scenes I already painted and was very excited about that.

I painted part of the top storey of this building in Piazza Erbe.

That is the arena in the background though I didn’t know that when I painted this scene.

Then I went into the supermarket I found yesterday. It was perfect….as well as being only about 300mtrs from where I’m staying.

I love that Verona is flat. Sorry, Pisticci.

Now I have a doormat on my painting table for protection.

View from my window. ( preferred yesterday’s wine bottle.)

I went out again about 6pm. The theory was that I’d have an aperitivo. That’s never going to happen. So I looked in shop windows and wondered who could afford to buy anything out of them.

Then I found a secondhand book stall. ( which I could afford!)