Lovely creatures. Here in Lombardy (northern Italy) since december the temperature is well above zero and the sky is nearly always mercilessly blue, only one day of very light rain. On the mountains only a thin layer of snow, while in central and southern Italy winter did its job with cold, rains and even heavy snowfalls. Tomorrow it will snow in central (perhaps even in Rome…) and southern Italy, but here nothing yet ...
Thank you, Francois. Last Friday I had lost my cell there, because of a tumble (I was lucky to manage stopping in time…). It was a cheap one, but knowing it was alone, slowly dying, was very unpleasant to me. Yesterday I have come back near to the place of my fall (I didn't remember it well), my wife (who in these days is far away, in Valtellina) called its number and... it rang near my feet, half buried in the ground...