Doing the rounds of end of term school plays, I shuddered to see the number of overweight children.

My permesso di soggiorno had expired, in um, 1996. Yes, I do realize that’s quite a long time.

Little did the snap-happy tourists know we'd be ripping off the hated gloves.

The car shuddered to a halt, and through the windshield, as smoke poured out of the engine.

The lowest ebb in our relationship came when my mother-in-law insisted on stripping our bed.

I was badly in need of reassurance about the big decision we had recently made to leave Rome and live in Spoleto.