We have now been living in our new house for just over 2 months, Mrs Sensible still can’t find many of the things that I packed! After a talking to by Mrs S, I have promised myself that I will be a good boy and be a little more organised, so I trotted of to the bank and gave them our new address, Mrs Sensible went to the gas and electric companies and did the same.
Poste Italian surprised us by finding the house and delivered 2 Electric Bills and a birthday present for Mrs Sensible all the way from England.
Poste Italia, as efficient as anything can be in Italia!
A week ago Mrs Sensible visited the local council offices to formally tell them, they now have a Black Sheep resident in their little village. When she returned home, she had a little surprise for me, the address we have given everybody is wrong, not wrong as in slightly wrong but wrong as in a completely different address. I suppose that is why Poste Italia managed to deliver our mail.
Our village now has a black sheep living there.
Our house has a number 13 nailed to the wall, and I believe the road name is Old Mill (translated) The council claim our house should have the number 2 nailed to the wall and the road is called Green Leaves (again translated). Mrs Sensible with her infinite wisdom is following the council’s advice and filling out all her official forms using the address 2 Green Leaves. I on the other hand prefer to use the address 13 Old Mill, not because I am a black sheep, but because Poste Italia thinks that is where I live.
The woman at our post office does not look like this
To date no letters have arrived for Mrs Sensible at 2 Green Leaves, so either nobody is writing to her or……. She might be wrong!!!!!
Mrs Sensible was last proved wrong….
It won’t be the first time she has been proved to be wrong, but I think Halley’s Comet was passing close by the last time I proved it.
Englishman in Italy 
That queue (Imagine a queue in Italy!), is so typical of Italian Post Offices. I swear I aged 2 years, waiting to buy a stamp.
Does Mrs Sensible read your posts? You may join Halley’s Comet when she casts her eyes on this one. It’s been really nice knowing you.
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She does read the posts but she has been very busy getting organised for the beginning of the new school term. She has a new lot of chilblains to teach.
I think she is 3 posts behind so I am safe for the moment 😉
PS. Do you want a pussy cat? We have been invaded by 5 kittens so you can have either:- Mish Mash, Houdini or Runt. I am keeping Hairy and Mrs S want’s to keep the scabby Ginger cat.
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No, but thanks for the most kind offer. I am going into intense training for the next monthly application of flea medication to the Monster Who Poses as a Cat. You might like her as a companion to Hairy.
Anyhow, that’s good you’re going to have the pitter-patter of tiny cat claws at either of the addresses where you live.
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We did the flea medication yesterday. Mrs S is preparing fresh food for them, they are better fed than me!!!
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I think I’d go with Mrs. Sensible on this one. I would prefer 2 than 13! 😉
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I think 13 is considered lucky here. In Sicily it is considered luck if it rains on your wedding day!!! But then this is Italy
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Only in Italy… 😀
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My Tom Tom can’t find either address, so I think there may well be a third address.
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I wonder how long it will take them to work that out!
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Send the cats to 2 Green Leaves and see where they end up 😉
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Lol. Posts Italia will lose them
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Would that be a bad thing? 😉
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Poor little cats
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We have a similar problem here. Before house numbers are assign by officialdom, the address is street, quadra (blobk), lote. Problem is our street has 2 quadra, hence 2 lotes 18, my taxis always go to the other house… 😦
AV
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Hi AV,
It is just strange we receive post to the unofficial address.
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I can understand that, after all Brazilian addresses are based on European (Itallian-like) systems; hence chaotic. While my taxis go to the other address, I get their mail… go figure.
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i love every word of this.
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We should throw you a “welcome to your new home” party–like the showers (aka parties) we give here in the US when people are getting married, having babies or moving into a new home—- guests are to bring gifts for the new home—let me think best how to organize such a fete at such a distance and as to which address will work best for the invitations—I will put Scooby Do top on the list to be invited. . .
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You are officially in charge, could you also organise my November birthday party… It is a special year
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November eh—mine is in November as well, and it too shall be a bit special in the milestone department—let me guess—is our little black sheep turning, let me think, could it be, I don’t think it’s 40, it must be 30? (always guess low with years and high with money)
I will be more like a freaking speed limit—sadly higher than I’d prefer. . .
Party it shall be. . .
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It is special because I have never been 53 before
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are you really going to be 53?? I don’t believe it!! You mean I’m just 2 years older?! What a hoot!!!
mine is on the 13th, what about you?? and aren’t you up rather late…old people need their sleep HA! 🙂
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3rd. But I still feel 30 and Mrs S says I still act like a 14 year old
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I must agree with Mrs S—a woman’s thing you know 😉
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You woman are all the same… Except Mrs S, of course
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When I last flew out of Italy, on a Tuesday, the airline lady insisted on changing my seat…..apparently on Tuesdays, the number 17 is unlucky….in Italy.
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Good, helpful customer service in Italy, I am shocked
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Hi PN 😀 It’s great to see wherever you have moved to is a wealth of treasures for your posts. My apartment has 3 addresses. House number on the street, Electricity Co. and Land Registry all different. The Land Registry reckons I live 3 floors up in a Spanish field and I have property deeds to prove it !
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Hi Ralph, Madness seems to just follow me. around.
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Where does your next door neighbour live? Which road? 🙂
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Just down the road. 🙂 But it is an interesting question, I will ask them
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Is your mail delivered by android, zombie, ghosts, or by tube like in NYC and London in the good old days? ask il postino/la postina … if it’s Benigni he certainly would know, his fast brain memorized La Divina Commedia – I cannot vouch for la postina but she may at least be pretty…
Attenta eh, Signora S. !…..
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Il Postino is one of my favourite films.
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