Festa Della Republica and Chickens

Public holiday in Italy today celebrating 64 years of the Republic which followed the ruinous entry under Mussolini of Italy into the Second World War in alliance with Germany.

Guiseppe our neighbour will have the Italian flag flying outside his house as he does on all such national holidays - a good patriot.

He has also just "bought" some baby chickens - 24 of them in fact. They came free with some chicken food. Can you believe it. What value a ch1cken eh!