Pia’s Substack

With old friends in Tuscany

The Abomination Tour

Aug 23 • 

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July 2025

Birthdays, graduations and new dawns.

Pride, Love and rites of passage

Jul 24 • 

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Glorious English summer

Rediscovering mud

Jul 7 • 

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June 2025

In defence of La Dolce Vita

La Dolce Vita is alive and kicking. But it’s not a place, it’s an abstract noun, in ones head, or rather in ones heart and the spirit of youth.

Jun 15 • 

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Flappery and Bikinis

On the cusp of summer in the Tuscan hills

Jun 12 • 

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May 2025

Monterosso Lemon Festival

5 go to the 5T

May 21 • 

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Idyllic cycling in the Tuscan hills.

Or not

May 11 • 

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April 2025

Capturing the zeitgeist of the moment?

Public loos and wild weeing

Apr 9 • 

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February 2025

Anarchy in the Surrey hills.

We are in deep trouble with Anon.

Feb 16 • 

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January 2025

Haute Couture at Paris Fashion Week

Hidden beauties

Jan 30 • 

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Marmalade madness

Joining the preserve conoscenti

Jan 18 • 

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New Year's good intentions and wassailing our lovely old apple tree

Normally I would skip breakfast as I have trained myself to drink black coffee rather than café latte, and actually don’t mind it any more.

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