This is what Paola writes about herself:
Hi all,
finally set up my g.mail account….. What can I tell you about myself?
I can sew, knit, crochet and even make lace (tatting). I am quite good at
turning up hems and trousers but draw a line at zips! Could use help in the
garden and in the house sometime moving things which are heavy or reaching
things which are too high up as I am rather small.
I like meeting people, going to the cinema, theater, gardening as well as
cooking and love baking bread (without a machine). I speak Italian, German and
French as well as English and am happy to offer translation services from those
languages.
Have lived in Garden Walk, Cambridge for the last 27 years which is the
longest I have lived anywhere, and in the same house, in my life.
Originally come from Florence but left Italy 49 years ago. With my
husband, Roy, who was in the British Foreign Office, and our 4 sons we lived
abroad (Senegal, Sweden and India) for 12 years. We were posted back to England
in 1977 and decided to stay put. We settled in St.Neots - the boys, who had been
at boarding school, went to the local school and then went on to University. I
got a job in Huntingdon as a multilingual administrator and a similar one in
Cambridge where we moved in 1987 which had been a dream of mine.
Unfortunately in 1988 the dream was shattered as both my eldest son, Mark,
and my husband died within 8 months of one another. But I still love Cambridge
and feel very privileged to have ended up here from Florence. Two of my sons
live in England and one in Italy. I have three grandsons who are by now young
men and all live in England.
I am a Christian and a member of Holy Trinity Church in the centre of town.
My faith is very important to me but am a liberal at heart and have many
friends with different religious views or even none!
I seem to have rambled on as I often do. Look forward to meeting you all
personally and being part of this very good initiative. I include a photo of
myself hoping to encourage others to do the same….
Arrivederci!
Paola
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