MIND, BODY & SPIRIT: Time Off for Me

It's autumn here in Sardinia. The beaches  are almost exclusively left to local residents and latecomers and  I'm taking tomorrow morning off to lie on this one in Golfo Aranci. 

With an  important name for a beach - La Prima Spiaggia -  it also has a great bar a few steps from the water's edge which is perfect for  a mid-morning capuccino and also a seafood restaurant which serves the best sea bass along the coast . Altogether (to use a Stephen Fry expression) BLISSY

Find your own blissful place in Sardinia:

http://annunci.ebay.it/annunci/vendita/olbia-tempio-annunci-golfo-aranci/sardinia-beach-road-one-two-three-bed-apartments/7791964

WORK: Charismatic Language

Words that intrigue, attract and innovate are charismatic and using the right language is vital to selling your service or product: especially over the net where the visitor to sales ratio is the crucial factor.

My work involves translating sales literature from Italian into English but sometimes words gain poetic appeal left in their original imperfect form when profit is not an issue.    This delightful note was left to Mrs. Rosemary Verey from a Japanese visitor to her garden in Gloucestershire.  Enclosed with the message was a ginger root:-

Mrs Rosemary Verey

Thankyou very much for everything.

Today's morning.

I found other present for you to my Seiko in my bag.

(oh my God, I have mistake once more...)

That is Ginger, Zingiher officinale.

It is living now . happy!

I must send to you in haste!

Thank you very much for bottle of my heart.

 Naotaka Hirota

27 June 1986

(Taken from A Christmas Cracker by John Julius Norwich 1994)