Crowd Trouble in Cagliari (Artist’s Impression)

The Italian football season starts this weekend. Over the last few weeks there have been the usual rounds of Friendly games as the teams warm up for the campaign, and I’m sorry to report that the one between Calgiari and Triestina saw some crowd trouble, with Cagliari fans invading the pitch. The object though wasn’t [...]

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Best Scottish Blogger Living in Italy Award

Every now and again when I’m reading blogs I come across one that contains a badge that indicates they were nominated for or won some blogger award or other. “How do you get one of them things, then?” I ask myself and follow the links. It’s then that I realise the disheartening truth: people need [...]

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Empress Helena’s Holy Staircase

They’ve just found a bust of the Empress Faustina the Elder. She looks a bit of a mean old broad if you ask me, but Roman Empresses were often pretty formidable characters. There was Livia, Augustus’ wife who was the inspiration for Tony Soprano’s mother, but my favourite is Helena, the shopaholic mother of Constantine. [...]

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Why are they Now?

I used to buy Q magazine every month. Bought it for years; I stopped buying it about 5 years ago when I saw that month’s cover had another “The 50 Best Albums/Singles/Bands/Gigs of all time”, and I realised that I didn’t need to buy the magazine, because not only did I know what was [...]

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Well Stacked Mutt

I can’t imagine there are many folk who read this blog who don’t also read Blogging Kaiser BPP’s site. But if not, you can go there and read about the reason why I’m posting the picture above.

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