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The Weather In Umbria
When we arrived in Umbria to live, we groped our way right down from Turin through a dense yellow fog and from that day on were forced to revise our expectations about the weather...
Author: Damaris West - Category: Travel
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Night Attack
Gemma slipped slim fingers into black leather gloves, passed a pin through her designer hat into her hair and gathered the skirts of her expensive camel coat around her...
Author: Damaris West - Category: Short Stories
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Working With A Tutor - How To Get The Best Out Of Tutoring
In our many years as an agency, we have met very few tutors who weren't what they purported to be The probablility of this happening to you is very small but it is not zero...
Author: Damaris West - Category: Education
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Negotiating And Writing A Tutoring Contract
Many people sadly don't bother with this side of the tuition Unfortunately, in doing so, they are leaving themselves open to potential problems both with the tutor over what is and isn't included and with organisations like the Inland Revenue...
Author: Damaris West - Category: Education
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Of Mushrooms, Snakebites And Depression
Yesterday I went into the village Pharmacy to enquire if our doctor had delivered a prescription He hadn’t, but for the mere showing of the ‘tessera’ or medical card, and without any prescription charge because there isn’t one, I was allowed to take the tablets away...
Author: Damaris West - Category: Short Stories
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High Point Of The Day
It probably seems strange, even sad, that the high point of my day is the journey to work What’s more we’re only talking about ten minutes because, although it’s a half-hour’s drive from our village of Gualdo Cattaneo to the city of Foligno where we rent an office, the best part, the secret, unsigned short cut, is only a small portion of it...
Author: Damaris West - Category: Short Stories
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The Mobile Phone Culture In Italy
They flip open and light up jewel blue They close with a snap and stow away in the smallest of pockets...
Author: Damaris West - Category: Culture
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Small Is Beautiful
There is one thing in particular which Italy does extremely well Not pizza, not tiramisu even, but the small shop...
Author: Damaris West - Category: Travel
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An Olive Grove Of Your Own
We have about fifty and a half olive trees in the grove below our house I’m not sure about the fifty – it could be anywhere between forty and sixty – but I am absolutely sure about the half...
Author: Damaris West - Category: Gardening
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The Money Scene In Italy
In my purse bulging with tiresome copper or gold-coloured cent coins, I carry one attractive coin which has no value at all...
Author: Damaris West - Category: Travel
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Frustrations Of Living In Italy
Italy is famous for all sorts of things and one of them is its bureaucracy
If you take up residence in Italy, you will be blessed if the town of your birth in the UK is a short word because you will have to write it more times than you could ever count...
Author: Damaris West - Category: Short Stories
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