Per favore. La cucina casareccia italiana! Mozzarella di Buffala. Let's have an insalata Caprese! It's all out of order, but we're so snickered to the tots, we won't notice🥳🍷🥂🥂🍾
Fireworks on the veranda! @fauxpaschick5.bsky.social
Dr Francesca Santoro
@phyllida.bsky.social
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Greek & Roman history, politics, art history, literature. Music: Mahler, DSCH, opera, chamber music. Have lived in Rome & Amsterdam. Love languages, theatre, museums in general, Shakespeare, London, the House of Commons, Rowson cartoons, in particular.😊
![We have Brie & Gorgonzola, Raclette, Stilton with apricots (They're still slicing the Cheddar—or they've already gobbled it up) apples, strawberries, fresh Rosemary & raisins. [Yumskers!]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6bo6atjcihepmtcbvpnlly2m/bafkreigms7irjvufmz35kkrx7u7ltfxwrk4bp4o3wqjjd65ifxyfcm5j3i)
!["Flew" up mountain w/ friend in a seggiovia (2 person chair lift). A guide at the caffe walked us up to the top, and then down into the crater [look at the angle of my feet]. One is walking on movable rocks. It was freezing, and I was glad I was wearing my heavy Canadian sweater/jumper.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6bo6atjcihepmtcbvpnlly2m/bafkreiak6gl5m2fe43yvkyk4b3fshnfghepgcsi23yevkwvhg2dxq2opma)
![Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry. The Latin reads: "The English & French in battle together". Shakespeare's French. uttered at Agincourt by the Dauphin, who is bragging about his horse: "The flying horse, the Pegasus, [breathing] nostrils of fire."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6bo6atjcihepmtcbvpnlly2m/bafkreigmc4zof2ldoclp63uog6flcevyb5cfngaitsudoh53y6gaaxivga)
![After using her murderous magic on her philandering husband's new wife, Creusa; Creusa's father, h,the King of Corint Jason's [& her] 2 sons, Medea, niece of the enchantress Circe, daughter of the Sun, escapes on her Serpent-drawn chariot. Note the sunburst halo protecting her. South-Italian vase, 400 BCE, Cleveland Museum.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6bo6atjcihepmtcbvpnlly2m/bafkreig7eonjeprg3jwykczvzw2o3vq3omn5lsi4lhrrsfutssvfmfr6py)
!["The Reluctant Schoolboy," by John Burn (1880). The Fleming Collection, Scottish Art (which I read closed its London gallery in 2016. [Why? Victim of Austerity?])](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6bo6atjcihepmtcbvpnlly2m/bafkreibp6vozk2somidzxovse5br3f46xpimmkin6xnmajdfeokbgpgkfa)
![The household of the Lady Olivia: Maria, her maid & confidante; Feste, her clown; Sir Andrew Aguecheek, a hanger-on, Sir Toby Belch, her uncle are roistering late at night, waking Malvolio, Olivia's snooty steward, who is indignant. All, except Maria, are focused on Malvolio; Maria seems to be flirting with the artist, George Clint. "Sir Toby & Malvolio", 1833. [I love Malvolio's flowered silken dressing gown & his scarlet Morocco leather slippers.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6bo6atjcihepmtcbvpnlly2m/bafkreid7zably2owdswwbvjjzj6l7xn2v32fyy3ecxieh542rdpgcm5sx4)
