Food and Wildlife

A couple of new experiences for us, which I thought I'd share. You've already heard about our resident red squirrel, but we can also hear a genuine cuckoo hiding somewhere, and there are even fireflies at night. Fireflies are fascinating - there's enough light when they pulse that it even lights up the ground a little. I managed to catch one and have a look at it. They look quite ordinary, like a winged ant with a red head.

As with the rest of Italy, there are little lizards running around all over the place, and the usual humongous bee-things. We also had a terrifying creature in our shower the other day. Looked like one of the millipedes that ate Lumpy the Cook in King Kong.

On a more positive note, we've now tried peccarino - a sheep cheese. Yum!