I have just seen that with the latest push on the Marche BBQ event and other fundraising that continues, the magical barrier of £10,000 has been exceeded.
I came across a strange looking creature when clearing the compost heap last year, but thought nothing more about them, until this year. It looks like a mini lobster, but after some searching hav discovered it is called a mole cricket.
Many thanks. We'll add this recipe to our list of home made hooch!We tend to use 95% proof alcohol to make our liquers (nocino, liquor di more, fragolino, limcino,etc., - we're not alcholics honestly).I guess that we could do the same with sloe too. Has anyone ever tried and if so, how did it turn out?
I have an even better idea!Take yourself on an adventure of a lifetime and book a flight from NYC to Pescara. You can then go "hunting" whereupon I'm sure the people of Abruzzo will offer you a very warm welcome and as much help as they can give you, especilly if you manage to make contact with the Angelo's south of L'Aquila!Coincidentaly, at dinner tonight in a local restaurant, my ears pricked up to the sound of American accents. On the table near us was a party of 15 or so. It turned out to be a local Italian family and their long lost American cousins! An omen perhaps...All th best.
Hi Tom and welcome.This is as good as place as any to start your search.You might find this web site to be of some help and it looks as though your name Angelo is less common than D'Angelo, which will help narrow things down. It certainly appears that there are very few "Angelo's" in Abruzzo, so you might just be lucky.Looking at the map, there is an "Angelo" family just south of L'Aquila. http://www.gens.labo.net/it/cognomi/genera.html?cognome=ANGELO&t=cognomi...The White Pages might also helphttp://www.paginebianche.it/execute.cgi?ver=default&font=default&btt=1&t...Do you have any idea from what region of Abruzzo your grandparents came from. If not, the records office in the US should have this information available publicly. You might also want to try something like Facebook.Good luck with your search and let us know how you get on.
Any chance of posting the links or sending copies of these incriminating documents, as I've drawn a blank on Google. I plan to write to The Times today and hopr they will pick up the story.
Having "bare" fields is what living in the countryside is about and has already been said part of the country cycle. Personally, being surrounded by farmland, as we are, is a joy. The way the light changes on the soil at diferent times of the day, seeing snow covered fields, broken only by a lone olive tree and in the spring, a hew of light green as the crops start to grow and never knowing what is going to come up -sunflowers, coriander, wheat, barley... we never know.Unless the land around your house is very flat, I don't believe that you'll regard the fields as boring at all and you'll see their beauty just as much.
Poison! Surely there must be a better way to discourage these critters. Apart from it being pretty cruel, can you imagine the sort of stench you'll get if 2 or 3 die under your roof space where you couldn't gain access. You'd end up having to remove your roof tiles to find their rotting carcasses.Alternatively, you could get a bait trap and move them somewhere very remote.What is the real difference between a weasel and a stoat? Well that's easy - 'cos a weasel is ‘weasily’ identified and a stoat is ‘stotally’ different.
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Many thanks. We'll add this recipe to our list of home made hooch!We tend to use 95% proof alcohol to make our liquers (nocino, liquor di more, fragolino, limcino,etc., - we're not alcholics honestly).I guess that we could do the same with sloe too. Has anyone ever tried and if so, how did it turn out?
I have an even better idea!Take yourself on an adventure of a lifetime and book a flight from NYC to Pescara. You can then go "hunting" whereupon I'm sure the people of Abruzzo will offer you a very warm welcome and as much help as they can give you, especilly if you manage to make contact with the Angelo's south of L'Aquila!Coincidentaly, at dinner tonight in a local restaurant, my ears pricked up to the sound of American accents. On the table near us was a party of 15 or so. It turned out to be a local Italian family and their long lost American cousins! An omen perhaps...All th best.
Hi Tom and welcome.This is as good as place as any to start your search.You might find this web site to be of some help and it looks as though your name Angelo is less common than D'Angelo, which will help narrow things down. It certainly appears that there are very few "Angelo's" in Abruzzo, so you might just be lucky.Looking at the map, there is an "Angelo" family just south of L'Aquila. http://www.gens.labo.net/it/cognomi/genera.html?cognome=ANGELO&t=cognomi...The White Pages might also helphttp://www.paginebianche.it/execute.cgi?ver=default&font=default&btt=1&t...Do you have any idea from what region of Abruzzo your grandparents came from. If not, the records office in the US should have this information available publicly. You might also want to try something like Facebook.Good luck with your search and let us know how you get on.
Hi Will and welcome.I don't suppose you have any space in your van coming over from the UK do you?
Any chance of posting the links or sending copies of these incriminating documents, as I've drawn a blank on Google. I plan to write to The Times today and hopr they will pick up the story.
Perhaps an English paper such as The Times might run with this and help get these self serving b@stards their just desserts for this appalling "crime"
Having "bare" fields is what living in the countryside is about and has already been said part of the country cycle. Personally, being surrounded by farmland, as we are, is a joy. The way the light changes on the soil at diferent times of the day, seeing snow covered fields, broken only by a lone olive tree and in the spring, a hew of light green as the crops start to grow and never knowing what is going to come up -sunflowers, coriander, wheat, barley... we never know.Unless the land around your house is very flat, I don't believe that you'll regard the fields as boring at all and you'll see their beauty just as much.
Poison! Surely there must be a better way to discourage these critters. Apart from it being pretty cruel, can you imagine the sort of stench you'll get if 2 or 3 die under your roof space where you couldn't gain access. You'd end up having to remove your roof tiles to find their rotting carcasses.Alternatively, you could get a bait trap and move them somewhere very remote.What is the real difference between a weasel and a stoat? Well that's easy - 'cos a weasel is ‘weasily’ identified and a stoat is ‘stotally’ different.
Can't wait to hear the recording!Maybe we should donate £2 to the Abruzzo Earthquake Appeal for every wrong guess?http://www.justgiving.com/italy-abruzzo-earthquake/
http://www.scricciolo.com/eurosongs/Dendrocopos.leucotos.wavVery hard to spot, but you can certainly hear them!