Now with extra pallor
Hello one and all
I hope you've had a pleasant summer. As you've asked, mines was ok bordering on decent, but ultimately pointless as there was no football. I write to you now with half an ear on the football on the tv, but it's not a match I particularly care about, so really I'm just wasting energy and dooming my offspring's offspring to unpleasant weather fluctuations. It is very soothing to have the football noises though, how I've missed them.
I go back to Genoa for the weekend tomorrow, with the main purpose of watching the Genoa v Roma match on Sunday, as I now have a season ticket. I genuinely can't wait to hold it in my hands. Simple pleasures and all that.... Not at all coincidentally, because I'm writing this and it isn't all just verbal diarrhoea, I saw or read or heard something that questioned why people say 'genuinely' or 'honestly', for example, "That dress honestly makes you look slimmer and more attractive". The person/article that I'm plagiarising here pointed out that if you say 'honestly' etc, does that mean that the rest of the time you're lying? Unless you're a serial liar, probably not. Which makes my example quite paradoxical, as in those situations, there really is only one answer, and so even if the answer is contradictory, you have to lie while giving it a veneer of honesty by using one of these key words. Think on that one.
Aaaanyway, Scotland has been wet and exactly as I imagined it would be. Just now Edinburgh is teeming with slow moving obstacles called tourists who clutter our streets while they take photos of buildings and other irritating things. I know they're very important to Edinburgh, as without them we'd just be a good looking Glasgow or Dundee, but still, they're on my increasingly long list of things that annoy me.
In an entirely unplanned fashion, my sister and I will both be on the same flights to and from Italy, without going to the same places apart from the airport.
I can't really think of anything else to say, as this was mostly just bowing to overwhelming demand (my Auntie Linda).
So, until next time,
arrivederci
I hope you've had a pleasant summer. As you've asked, mines was ok bordering on decent, but ultimately pointless as there was no football. I write to you now with half an ear on the football on the tv, but it's not a match I particularly care about, so really I'm just wasting energy and dooming my offspring's offspring to unpleasant weather fluctuations. It is very soothing to have the football noises though, how I've missed them.
I go back to Genoa for the weekend tomorrow, with the main purpose of watching the Genoa v Roma match on Sunday, as I now have a season ticket. I genuinely can't wait to hold it in my hands. Simple pleasures and all that.... Not at all coincidentally, because I'm writing this and it isn't all just verbal diarrhoea, I saw or read or heard something that questioned why people say 'genuinely' or 'honestly', for example, "That dress honestly makes you look slimmer and more attractive". The person/article that I'm plagiarising here pointed out that if you say 'honestly' etc, does that mean that the rest of the time you're lying? Unless you're a serial liar, probably not. Which makes my example quite paradoxical, as in those situations, there really is only one answer, and so even if the answer is contradictory, you have to lie while giving it a veneer of honesty by using one of these key words. Think on that one.
Aaaanyway, Scotland has been wet and exactly as I imagined it would be. Just now Edinburgh is teeming with slow moving obstacles called tourists who clutter our streets while they take photos of buildings and other irritating things. I know they're very important to Edinburgh, as without them we'd just be a good looking Glasgow or Dundee, but still, they're on my increasingly long list of things that annoy me.
In an entirely unplanned fashion, my sister and I will both be on the same flights to and from Italy, without going to the same places apart from the airport.
I can't really think of anything else to say, as this was mostly just bowing to overwhelming demand (my Auntie Linda).
So, until next time,
arrivederci
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