Ogne scarrafone è bell' a mamma soja is a Neapolitan saying which means in Italian "Ogni scarafaggio sembra bello alla propria madre", that is to say even "an ugly beetle is beautiful to its mother". I guess, we could loosely translate that to "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" but I'm not too sure it covers the maternal aspect.
Well, as a mother, a whole part if not all is related to my children and so here are my adorable beetles (not sure how happy they will be with that definition :-) but beautiful indeed they are! The photo above taken a few summers ago shows the ticket office for the Amalfi Coast (Postiano and Capri) ferry....
Meet the learner of the present. Francis, aged 15 playing on PC rather than doing any homework!
Interests: Travian
Hobbies: discovering new beer and Celtic swords
Future: scary
And this is Sophie, a keen national gymnast,
who still turns away from keyboard to smile.
At the young age of 11 has been blogging for longer than I care to admit and has created her own network of bloggers who would rather die than be blogfaders...
Recently, she spent whole evenings recreating a new feel and relaunched the blog with a whole new look incorporatign images, video and music
http://spaces.msn.com/superz11/ ( it was nice to see the network of support and the extraordinary lengths these kids go to to by-pass default settings and add something original, even trying their hand at HTML !
1 comment:
Good stuff Vale, lots of interesting stuff about you I've been delighted to be able to read, and great pix! Congratulations on the new flat!
Nicky
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