Much of a muchness

I’ve been tagged by Dunn over at Simply Dunn. The picture above gives you a clue to the theme of the tag (or the theme of the meme, I suppose) Can you guess what it is yet? (My best Rolf Harris impression).

It’s ‘Four’. I have to answer each of the following questions with four answers. So here we go.

Four jobs I have had

1. Manageress of a fashion ’boutique’
2. Civil servant
3. Maths teacher
4. Worked in an art gallery

Four movies I could watch over and over

1. Singin’ in the Rain
2. Cinema Paradiso
3. You’ve Got Mail
4. Amelie

And here’s a clip from one of these, Cinema Paradiso – Italy, cute children, dishy Italian men, gorgeous scenery, it has it all.

Four TV shows I love

1. Heroes
2. Doctor Who
3. Torchwood
4. Francesco da Mosto in anything

And for those of you who don’t know about this last one here is a clip from his new TV series. It has everything, Venice, dishy Italian men, gorgeous boats what more could you want?

Four places I’ve vacationed

1. Thailand
2. Barbados
3. Los Angeles
4. Italy

Hmmm, I see a theme emerging….

Four of my favourite dishes

1. Pad thai
2. Liver and bacon, mashed potatoes and onion gravy
3. Lobster tails with lime butter
4. Anything Italian

Oh dear, here we go again…

Four blogs I visit every day

1. Fuel my Blog
2. Daddy Papersurfer
3. Diary of a 70’s teen
4. The Struggling Writer

No Italian blogs I notice…I must remedy that :-)

The last time I was in Italy was with my good friends Claire and Julia, we did a wonderful tour, starting in Rome moving on to Siena, Florence and ending in Venice. It was a fantastic road trip, although I am very grateful that I was the navigator/tour guide and didn’t have to do any of the driving (which was hairy to say the least!) The soundtrack of our trip was Julia’s own song from her album ‘Concrete Love’.

https://dianea.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/02-italy.mp3

This is us in St Peter’s Square in Rome after watching Pope John Paul II give his weekly audience to the huge crowd. We could really only saw the Pope on a large TV screen as the crowds were pretty large, but we did get chatting to a very friendly chap called Brother Clay – a priest/monk (can’t remember quite what he was) from the USA. One of the things the Pope does at these weekly audiences is bless newly married couples. They put on their wedding togs and line up to be blessed. I took this photograph after the ceremony, I have always loved it.

Here are some more images of my favourite country.

Now four people I am passing this on to

1. Astrid
2. Teresa
3. Kylee
4. Jenny

Before I go, I just wanted to show you this photgraph. I was sitting in my garden, enjoying the sunshine, when a movement in the trees caught my eye and I saw a bizarre sight. I rushed to get my camera and took this.

Can you see it? The world’s first flying tractor!