PRANCING AROUND
After having the girls prance around the living room in my groovy boots – the best and possibly only way to round off a top class poulette evening at Valerie’s – Art Director and Creative Assistant spent new year’s eve getting rice all over the place, down the walls, under the carpet, on the chairs, in the hairs, nicely controlled with litres of superglue. Who would have known they were not directly from Japan?


A side of Valerie not many had seen before...


Mimiche hangs on for dear life.


Close up and personal with sushi.


Sushi rolls rock!


The full sushi bar effect.

ONE WAS ONE
Do you remember blowing out your first candle?
Strangely, on the day, Simone was more into the cake than into the candle…


Towering over chocolate.

GOT PAST...
Fluffy is going to be eaten. at some stage. for certain. just don't know when yet. so I thought I would share with you the joy of getting past Christmas without him/her=it being put in the pot.
I am now stearing clear of the back of the house, where the logs are stocked and where it finds shelter from the cold. I am in fact pretending it never existed.
Luckily, I only saw it in my dreams...
Buon appetito!

SAUSAGES
On my last day at the ministry, I was having difficulty attracting the attention of the guards at the door. On a usual morning, they would very happily hand over the keys to the office and return my wishes for a productive day - not today. After a while of hovering in the lounge area, I decided to let myself in through the electronic pod (checking if I have a low enough metal content to enter the building?) and knock on their door. As I swung in, I found myself nose to nose with a meter-long string on sausages... and lots of mammas, chanting the virtues of their creations. Easily distracted?
Happy Christmas.


sausages galore!

FLUFFY BIT
Just so you know, I am now the proud owner of one of those red-eyed fluffy bouncy things. Cristian has not had his hand under it yet so I am not sure about the gender, i am just hoping the nonna does not decide to put it in the pot at new year...

ROME IS...
Grumbling about the public transport system made it no better, so I walked most of the way to work, through the cobbled streets of Trastevere, up onto the banks of the river - which was threatening to overflow - down into the Vatican areas where people were pressing into bars for their morning coffee. When I asked my way, I was sent up to Piazza San Pietro. What an astoundingly beautiful sight. Rome is gorgeous.


This does it no justice.

WHAT YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE WANTED TO KNOW
Cristian spent most of yesterday feeling the genitalia of albino rabbits...
After taking the pheasant food market by storm, this new move relates to the "day of the rabbit" - an incentive to get people to buy pet food (with the pet included) or some amazing trick to try out something most people never get to do????