Hi Gang Home again after a wonderful month in Italy. DH and I travelled around seeing the sights and eating beautiful yummy dinners. We rented two country villas for a week each - well, one was in the Umbria countryside and the other was in a little stone castella group of houses perched on a hill an hour out of Florence. As I *love* cooking, it was great fun to sightsee during the day, step in the food markets and prepare an Italian style dinner at night for these two weeks. Broke up the eating out in restaurants scene which altho' is enjoyable, is hard going for a month.
Now... where's that quilt studio in my house???
Oh, it transpires that France and Italy had their warmest April in a century - we had blue skies every day which did seem somewhat remarkable. Now home in southeast Queensland, it seems more like summer than autumn with 28dC today (and more blue skies) == we could do with lots of rain. Severe water consumption restrictions are in force.
Hugs to everyone, for happy times and those in need of comfort. Bronnie Oz p.s. big to Pat on her Hill.