Some days ago
Posted: 08/08/2026
Photo taken in Italy two years ago, apparently near our family's house in the Trebbia Valley. I don't know, I haven't been to the place in years, and I genuinely wonder if I'll ever see it again. It's become a bogey man for me, like a private jet I happen to have inherited but is way beyond repair. "Yes, I own a private jet. No, it's worthless to me. Stop teasing me as if I fly everywhere with it."
Have you ever been woken up in the middle of the night and whisked away from home, without explanation, for an 180km drive down south in the old Land Rover Freelander? The sort of thing that you only recognise the significance of after you grow up.
Maybe I'm overreacting, but no one calls me out of their own volition, unless it's to tell me bad news.