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Why are the columnists in the Sunday Times Homes section so uniformly repellent? Not content with the vile woman with Hero and Tybalt as children (see previous posts) last week there was an article with a couple whose children are called Solomon and Sesame. The latter child is a girl. Do her parents not realise they have condemned her to a lifetime of inadequate men sidling up to her and breathing 'Open Sesame'? I hope she sues her parents for cruelty. This week we have a woman in France who manages to write an entire page about not being able to have broadband in France, as her rustic idyll is too far from the local telephone exchange. Well, whoop-de-dooh. I can trump her.. NTL refused me broadband on the same basis when I lived in South East London. I think I win. There's another buy-to-let landlord trying to out greed Rosie Millard. They are all so deeply unattractive personalities it is impossible for the reader to have an iota of sympathy with their plights. Perhaps it's time to stop buying the bloody thing, or to start writing threatening letters.

Here Naples managed to escape the worst of the weather that incapacitated most of Italy. South of Salerno there were 2 metres of snow, and the A3 was shut for 4 days. On the Abruzzo coast, it was -13 with 120 km winds. Snow in Sicily, Puglia and Calabria. Here in Naples it was cold and wet. Today dawned chilly but crisp and clear, and surprisingly warm in the sun. If that was winter, I'm happy.