These are the babies of the family.
Oscar, the balck and white cat is two and tries to be the man about the house - but is afraid of his shadow!
Mimì, a female is one year old and is quite shy but determined.
She is Oscar's playmate but also his prey!

This is Tingy, a very elderly and temperamental Siamese cat.
Se is 17 years old and does not get on at all well with the other tow cats, especially Oscar. He weighs 6 kgs and she is very fragile!

This is Sasha, our dog. She is 13 years old|

This is Francesco and Anna, my son and daughter-in-law on their wedding day in July last year.
They lived for a time in Pescara, which is on the southern Adriatic coast, but a year ago they decided to move to Novara and are now renovating an old house in a village nearby.

This is my family - or most of it.
My brother, Theo, my daughter, Giulia ,Michael, the tallest one is Jennie's fiancè.
Jennie is pushing Granny, my Mum, then on the right there is my sister-in-law Barbara and my nephew, Robin
It was taken in England this summer.

This is a picture I like a lot. it was taken in Edinburgh in June when my niece got her degree in European studies with Italian and German - she as the only one on the course to get that combination.
The other person is my brother, Theo.
She is now doing a post-grad course and is getting married on 27th October.
I will add the photos!

OK This is a photo of me taken overlooking Lake Orta, which is not far from Novara.
I don't like having my photo taken, so I don't have many of me.
In the background you can see the lake and the Island of St. Giulio where there is a religious sanctuary. It is one of the picture postcard
places you see on the front of travel magazines!