Well I have absolutely no excuse for not posting a blog apart from being intensely lazy and when you imagine this, don’t under estimate the laziness! I’ve not long finished filming and every time I do I’m exhaustedOh my god I just don’t know what came over me, from the minute I set foot on Puglian soil, my whole being slumped and I could barely force my arm to pick up the remote control for some weeks, it was all quite exhausting.
Having passed through my big fat b***H on the couch time, I’m now riding the wave of D.I.Y like before; I think it was “THE LIST” of D.I.Y that put me on the couch in the first place, (It was my way of protesting, in some way after just finishing the film, where I kept receiving THE LOOK from Michael every time he rushed by in a hurry to do more work)
No really, he’s been wonderful as always, he doesn’t stop and things are really progressing nicely, and there were only a few comments like “get your lazy arse off that couch and pick up a paint brush”
Anyway I only feel like I’ve adjusted now after 6 weeks, ridiculous as that sounds, my brain always finds it hard to switch from a life style of hotels, bright lights and big cities to being on the side of a mountain.
Luckily we have a wonderful new log burning stove (stuffa) that's been keeping us toasty and we keep the wood burning all day long, the wood from the garden is all free although, obviously its taken Michael and his Italian work gang more than a few weeks to do the usual massive garden pruning for winter (or more so hacking in their case) and they’ve cut it all up into nice neat piles for the wood, so I simply have to stoke the fires every half an hour or so and this is enough to circulate the heat through out the whole house, which we never imagined would work so well, particularly with the high ceilings and marble staircase.
Anyway life in Puglia is great as always, slow, gentle and mellow. I've even started painting again, god I'm rusty, meanwhile Michael is working away like a trooper still with Leo,(our gardener)
They're a little gang now, we also have two cleaners and a plumber for the new business, its good for Michael as Leo is good fun and he's teaching him Italian, VERY SLOWLY. Their conversations are, on the floor hilarious but he’s got the patience of a saint and because of him were both learning a lot more, faster.
We’re interacting with a lot of different people now, any time we need any help or have any problems there’s a lot more people to ask, poor Maurizio is getting a break from our constant demands.
Talking of which he’s opening a new club soon (we will be expecting VIP treatment like always) and is plying all his time into this new venture, so we haven’t seen him as much as we’d like but we still speak regularly.
Michael's new property maintenance company is doing well as there are a lot of British clients who all seem very pleased to finally have found someone willing to do the work on their homes.
Obviously we are still working away on Villa Silvana. I hope by the start of the season everything will be finished, it’s mainly the land that is taking all the time.
We still have a lot of terraces to put in and a hell of a lot of gardening and we’ve even started decorating our own home, which we have left, due to the fact that the apartments were priority, as they are our bread and butter.
So were really pleased with the progress were making with our language, the villa, the business and Michael's new maintenance company, for sure none of this has happened over night but we’re certainly settled now.
The friends we’ve made are also soooo nice. The Italians do anything to help you, we’re VERY different and that is obvious by our views and opinions but we continually have to remind ourselves that we're living in the country now, so our extreme city opinions, general knowledge and lack of religion is still very different, but it doesn’t seem to matter as life here is JUST SIMPLE. how wonderful is that!
The World moves on and we are completely unaware of what happens outside Villa Silvana and Puglia, Still we like being blissfully ignorant, which probably sound utterly ridiculous but most days we don’t know what day of the week it is, let alone the date, it doesn’t matter, we're not controlled by time and have a different kind of stress (mainly overpowering lists of D.I.Y and new clients who keep changing their minds about kitchen and bathroom designs)
Wow, how our lives have changed, Michael's taken to it all like a duck out of water but it seems to take me longer and longer to adjust again, every time I go away and do a movie and live in that fantasy world. I’m sure the time is nearing to stop!We'll have to see what happens the next time the phone rings for the next Hollywood adventure
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