Tenterhooks

You can feel the tension in the air. Italy wants to move, to breathe, to sit in the sun, to shoot the breeze, to be released from the horror.

There’s weeks of dry warm high pressure weather forecast. Day 26 today. Those small apartments will seem ever smaller as Italy’s most benign month with all its Easter occasion and sociability slips past into a predicted sweltering summer.

This is super hard. But without real discipline the gains made through sacrifice will be jeopardised. Even at the top of the curve there’s still a lot to stick out and suffer for.

But I did replace the tines and more land is tilled. The day of reckoning ever nearer when out the gates I must go for supplies.