“You know, people come to Italy for all sorts of reasons, but when they stay, it's for the same two things."
"What?"
"Love
and gelato.”
from “Love
and Gelato” by Jenna Evans Welch
“You may
have the universe if I may have Italy”
Giuseppe
Verdi
I think that the U.K. is becoming Italy, and I don’t know how I feel about it.
The news is reporting that yesterday saw a temperature of 36.7 degrees, and people in the south of Britain are currently experiencing the warmest June night ever.
This is not the weather for traditional British cups of hot tea, and grumbling complaints about how cold it is. It is also not good for our old houses, built to keep the heat in rather than the heat out.
At the same time, Britain is about to get its seventh prime minister in the last ten years. Since Brexit, we have become politically unstable and, according to many observers, ungovernable. Britain was traditionally seen as politically conservative, boring and predictable. It was always Italy in the past that changed prime minister almost every year.
Are Scotland or England going to suddenly win the World Cup this year, instead of failing miserably as usual? Will the quality of British food improve? Will the people become more passionate and expressive of their emotions?
I’m sure it
won’t be all bad living in the new land of Britaly.
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