Wonders of Milan

On Saturday, we took the wee one who must be occupied for a trip up to Como, but the big one, me, who must take photos, was forbidden from taking my trusty Canon. By way of revenge, sort of, and true to mad dogs and Englishmen form, I exploited a free afternoon while wee one and mum went to the pool, to wander around, armed with my newish Tokina 12-14mm wide angle lens, and take a few practice shots around the main and back streets of Milan.

Here is an incredible apartment block which is just across the road from the St Ambrogio church.

Yes, I know it is distorted, but I like this kind of perspective. The bright, and hot, sun washed the colours out a bit, but playing with the saturation, I managed to add some strength to the tones.

This is one of the St Ambrogio towers:

Here is Piazza Cadorna, and one of my ’tilt’ phase photos:

Atman, the Manchester Terrier

Our little pup is now one. He’s still a mischievous little rascal, and we are not convinced that the neutering operation he was subjected to a few months back has really done a great job in calming him down. Also, he appears to be madly in love with the next door neighbours male dog and has been doing his best to, er, molest the other mutt. Not the sort of behaviour you would expect from a testicleless dawg!

Here is a shot of the confused pup which I took yesterday:

Silvio Must Be Fuming!

Mr B, Italy’s charismatic prime minister is probably not a very happy chappy.  A recent article in Italian news magazine L’Espresso concerned, amongst other things, telephone conversations which took place between Italy’s current prime minister and a RAI TV executive last year.

Apparently, these conversations involve, it is alleged, Berlusconi, who wanted to help out some of his TV friends, and who, it is claimed, offered to support the business interests of one Agostino Saccà.  Saccà, who is currently under suspension, is/was RAI’s head of fiction.

In another tapped conversation with one Giancarlo Innocenzi, a member of Italy’s Communications Regulatory Authority (Agcom), was overhead chatting with Berlusco about valuable contracts for certain Mediaset producers. As the Italian newspapers are pointing out, this would appear to indicate that Mr B has not, as he has himself claimed, taken a back seat with regard to the management of his very own Mediset TV empire.

Wait for fresh allegations of confilicts of linterest to be levelled at Italy’s current head of parliament.

Around 9,000 (yes, nine thousand) calls have been deposited with the authorities in Naples who are investigating further allegations of corruption against good old Silvio.

Despite Berlusco’s attempts to whizz through anti-telephone tapping legislation, he does not appear to have moved fast enough to have blocked the recent publication of transcripts.  Berlusconi’s lawyer is also unhappy and making noises to the effect that this current episode clearly justifies the anti-telephone tapping legislation proposals.

One thing, OK, two things, are clear, either Berlusconi never bought one of these, or, he did, but they don’t work!

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