It's his/her third. It would be indeed nice if more of these diaries came!

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

Thanks for the encouragement!  ET's a great forum and I'll certainly try to contribute as actively/creatively as possible whenever I can. I'm a very amateur-type photographer, all I have is a kiddy-type wee digicam with low definition and no accessories so my pics-quality is so-so at best, but no lack of interesting places to photograph around here - so if you're prepared to put up with the crappy quality there'll be more photodiaires coming from me now that I've finally learnt how to insert pics (this effort took me practically all night, trial and error)! Also text ones when I have time and inspiration - unfortunatley they don't often coincide :-(.  


"Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is really worrisome." Mohammed Khatami

Great to see another unusual subject with nice pictures.

Having just been to southern Spain, where old fishing ports have turned into mostly "yatch marinas", are the fishing ports in Italy safe from development?

And if humans would only learn from cats... human-friendly collectives...

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.

i saw one of those cat sanctuaries in rome, it was a trip!

they were cruising round these great ruins, and the whole vision was other-worldly, and a bit fin-de-millenne...

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

Thanks for the lovely Torre Argentina cat-pic, De Gondi! I visit the Torre Argentina cat-colony whenever I'm in that area, proudly wear a supporter's teeshirt. Pleased - but not surprised - to see they've gone international.  

On a smaller-scale, localist level, practically every neighbourhood here has its local "gattara" - a more or less official "cat-feeder lady", usually but not always of grandmotherly age, who regularly collects scraps and leftovers from local butchers' shops and restaurants and distributes them, at discretely-chosen fixed "feeding points" and usually at the same time every day,  to the nearby cat-colonies. My mother used to be a "deputy gattara" ... meaning she'd temporarily take over the local cat-feeding rounds when the No. 1 cat-lady was sick or away visiting relatives.

"Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is really worrisome." Mohammed Khatami