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Sprechi energetici
November 6, 2014 // Posted in environment | No Comments
With a huge delay, Italy too, following a European regulation, is making mandatory the use of metering system to evaluate (and pay) how much heating energy is used by an apartment. In our region (Lombardia), such a good system is mandatory since this year, but for some unknown reason, if you don’t adopt it, you are not punished with sanctions. So, we were not able to convince our co-owners that to pay the heating we use is a good principle, which should guarantee for less wastefullness. And as a result, although we are living a really mild fall season, our common boiler (we share it with our co-owners) is fully working, with the result you see in the picture: open windows to avoid too much heating within the apartment…. No comment
Cesco
November 5, 2014 // Posted in family | No Comments
Ci sono persone di cui sembra impossibile poter fare a meno.
Ci sono persone straordinariamente acute, interessanti, curiose, colte e libere.
Cesco era un concentrato di tutto cio’: la persona piu’ eccezionale e libera che si possa incontrare e, libero come ha vissuto, se ne e’ andato, affrontando la SLA e tutto quello che essa comporta con grande coraggio e ironia.
Come ci siamo salutati un milione di volte… buon viaggio Cesco!
There are persons that become absolutely essential.
There are persons extremely sharp,interesting, curious, educated and free.
Cesco was the quintessence of all these qualities: the most amazing and free man we’ve ever met and, free as he lived, he passed away, facing amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis and everything that goes with it with enormous courage and irony.
As we were used to say goodbye to you…enjoy your trip Cesco!
La torta di Lorenzo
November 4, 2014 // Posted in food, Lorenzo | No Comments
Ieri siamo stati a trovare i nostri amici Matteo e Vassy, e a conoscere il loro bimbo, il piccolo Jacopo. Per l’occasione abbiamo preparato una torta, e ci siamo avvalsi dell’aiuto del piccolo Lorenzo. Molto felice e collaborativo, Lorenzo ci ha aiutato a preparare il blitz di mele, e il risultato e’ stato piu’ che soddisfacente. Anche la cucina, alla fine, tutto sommato, era in condizioni decorose…
Yesterday we went at Matteo and Vassy place to meet little Jacopo, their lovely new baby, born last July. We decided to bring them a cake, and we asked Lorenzo to help us preparing it. And he did a great job. Thanks Lorenzo!!!
Autolavaggio
October 26, 2014 // Posted in cars | 3 Comments
A while ago we went to the self car wash, with Lorenzo and Silvia inside the car, and Enrico whasing it. Lorenzo protested a lot, because he wanted to help me, and today we tried to wash the car with Lorenzo as active element. It was really funny, and at the end, the car was clean enough, and the baby very happy.
Una pizza con Zube e Nico
October 25, 2014 // Posted in friends | No Comments
Roberto (aka Zube) and Nico are two old friends (the adult male component met them at high school, roughly 30 years ago), but it still happens that we meet all together, to share what’s happening to our lives, to remember, to discuss. So, last Tuesday they were at sacchibelli’s place, and although we just ate a good pizza together, the event was very nice and special. Thanks for coming!!!
Una birra di tanto in tanto
October 19, 2014 // Posted in friends | No Comments
Sometimes we met together with some old friend. Roughly 25 years ago we met each other at the Oratory, and we are still friends. Someone is around the world, but when we sit around a table drinking a beer, it seems that the time didn’t fly. So, thanks for the very nice Friday night.
A proposito di Tasi
October 13, 2014 // Posted in Pavia | No Comments
- Il Comune mette a disposizione un sito (http://www.amministrazionicomunali.net/imutasi/calcolo_imu_tasi.php?comune=pavia) abbastanza comodo per il calcolo. Ma chi non dovesse avere accesso a internet come deve procedere? Gia’ e’ dura pagare le tasse in un paese in cui i soldi delle tasse sembrano sperperati, poi c’e’ la complicazione dello sforzo necessario a ricordarsi di pagare tutti i balzelli e a calcolarne il valore giusto
- Il Comune di Pavia, bonta’ sua, ha deciso di concedere una detrazione (di 200 euro) per tutte le situazioni in cui la rendita catastale e’ al di sotto di una certa soglia; gesto encomiabile e comprensibile, a tutela delle classi piu’ deboli (nell’ipotesi che rendita catastale bassa corrisponda a immobile di piu’ bassa qualita’). Pero’ mi pare incomprensibile che, in modo brusco, chi supera questa soglia, non abbia diritto a nessuna detrazione; cosi’, se la rendita catastale dell’immobile e’ di 450 euro, la tasi dovuta e’ di 50 euro, se la rendita e’ di 451 euro, la tasi dovuta e’ di 250 euro. Possibile che non si potesse modulare meglio la detrazione?
There is no way to translate in english the previous post. It refers to the crazy taxation system we have here in Italy. So don’t worry, it is just a surge and don’t worry, at the end I will pay all the taxes…
I palloncini al Carmine
October 13, 2014 // Posted in Pavia | No Comments
This morning we attended Mass at Carmine. Here we met Anna (with Chiara and Luca) and honestly both Lorenzo and Anna preferred to play together. However, after the Mass their attention was captured by a nice initiative: a lot of colored and flying balloons were shared among all the babies and, at a given time, they were released all together flying in the sky.
Una torta in compagnia
October 12, 2014 // Posted in friends | No Comments
Today, in the afternoon, Anna with Luca and Chiara came to our place. And although today Lorenzo was a bit nervous (he didn’t sleep after lunch) to see them playing together is always nice and funny. Thanks for coming and for sharing with us this nice afternoon.
Dinosauro
October 6, 2014 // Posted in friends, Lorenzo | No Comments
Today we went to Bereguardo to see the “Festa di San Zeno“. It was a really crowded event, and we met our friend Alessandro, Luisa with Alice and Viola. Lorenzo was very happy and when he noted that Luisa was “painting” children’s face, he asked her to paint a dinosaur, one of his recent passion. And here you can see the great result. Good job Luisa, thanks a lot!!!










