Friday 16 November 2007

Light me up Giulio.




Sorry for the gap in transmissions Peter, but truth be told, there hasn’t been a lot of activity to report on. The boys in Matlock have had a ‘real’ job come in and that had to take priority. I did have a very encouraging picture emailed to me from none other than Ron Combo, in Italy. Ron has a good pal, Giulio, a singer of note and enthusiastic dancer any time after midnight. The picture shows Giulio, first opening the tenth bottle of wine that evening and secondly, livening up a quiet village main street near where they live. I can’t imagine why the other villager's didn’t come out and join in. They must have heard the music roaring out of the Jag. And it was Giulio on the tape. Great voice! Anyway, Giulio has a yard and in that yard is an old trailer with two Jeep rear lights. My aim is to ask Ron to persuade Giulio to remove them and bring them over to Blighty when they come over to see the Italy v Wales 6 Nations Rugby match next February. If it all works out I shall buy Giulio a pint in Cardiff, if they have beer there. It may be a Sunday. I’ll have to check. I’m worried now. Maybe he’ll settle for a lamb chop.

3 comments:

Peter Ashley said...

Here we go. Two blogs come together. Excessive Italian drinking and half-painted jeeps.
Marvellous.

Diplomate said...

hold on a minute - i thought ron was dead ! are you sure the pics aren't from the wake and, later on, Giulio stepping out of the funeral car for a gastric evacuation on the way home ?

Ron Combo said...

We like gastric evacuation very much. Wonderful command of the English language. But what else would you expect from HM's naval attache at the British Embassy in Addis Ababa?