On hold

Oi! Get your hands off my gnocchi. 

Swinnging in the rain

Nigel having a Gene Kelly moment. 

I couldn't do that

We have a saying - 'A big ball of twine' and it describes an obsession I have with big gob smacking things that you've never seen before. So... the Damian Hirst show in Venice is the biggest ball of twine I've ever seen in my life. It's called the 'Treasures from the wreck of the unbelievable' and it literally is unbefreakinglievable. All of the pieces ostensibly recovered from a ship wreck - imagery of the divers recovering the pieces included. The size, scale and scope of the show is wild most notably a 60 foot tall depiction of a headless demon sporting a willy the size of a grown man's torso and filling the entire Palazzo Grassi - now that would bring any woman to tears surely. 

Mane event

The best bit of the Biennale - a ruddy great stallion literally (horse) shoed into it's space. 

Flower power

Conned into buying me a rose in St Mark's Square - it later came in very handy to help him shimmy through a partially open window, push open a shutter and take another photo. 

Tiramitwo

It's only 4 o'clock and we've already choked down 2 tiramisu's. 

Hold on

Very, very happy to have my trotters back on terra firma after a bone shaking ride in a speed boat from the airport.