Pia’s Substack

Celebrating the Winter Solstice

Christmas with the fam

Dec 12, 2025 • Pia Whitmartlet

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November 2025

November, month of growth, rejuvenation and unnatural practices.

70 is the new 40.

Nov 26, 2025 • Pia Whitmartlet

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Is truth a defence for the writer and is a reference to inclusion now mandatory?

Is truth a defence for the writer?

Nov 21, 2025 • Pia Whitmartlet

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August 2025

With old friends in Tuscany

The Abomination Tour

Aug 23, 2025 • Pia Whitmartlet

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July 2025

Birthdays, graduations and new dawns.

Pride, Love and rites of passage

Jul 24, 2025 • Pia Whitmartlet

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Glorious English summer

Rediscovering mud

Jul 7, 2025 • Pia Whitmartlet

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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, 2025 • Pia Whitmartlet

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Flappery and Bikinis

On the cusp of summer in the Tuscan hills

Jun 12, 2025 • Pia Whitmartlet

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May 2025

Monterosso Lemon Festival

5 go to the 5T

May 21, 2025 • Pia Whitmartlet

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Idyllic cycling in the Tuscan hills.

Or not

May 11, 2025 • Pia Whitmartlet

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April 2025

Capturing the zeitgeist of the moment?

Public loos and wild weeing

Apr 9, 2025 • Pia Whitmartlet

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February 2025

Anarchy in the Surrey hills.

We are in deep trouble with Anon.

Feb 16, 2025 • Pia Whitmartlet

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