Today, 2 June, is the Festa della Repubblica, Italy’s National Day. So for my Italian readers (and everyone else too!) here’s a song from Naples performed – in the Neapolitan dialect – by
One of my first ever posts, “Translators’ time-warp“, was about the confusion that arises when you work with clients in different time zones and with
“An object-lesson in how not to contract out a public service”. That’s how the Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Committee of Public
Do you ever find that a certain word or phrase keeps cropping up in your work? In your source material, I mean, not your end-product.
Alexander Anichkin’s blog post, When the Poet Died, was written a few months ago (June 2011) but makes timely reading today, Remembrance Sunday. Alexander’s post starts from his
One of the nice things about being married to someone from another country (Vito, my husband, is from Puglia, in Italy) is that you get to share
Once again my work days are out of kilter with the rest of the country – it’s a bank holiday here in the UK but
The Blessed Angelico: The Dawn of the Renaissance – the largest exhibition entirely dedicated to Beato Angelico since 1955 – is at Rome’s Capitoline Museums until
I work from Glasgow, mainly for Italian clients. My computer’s set to Italian time, because that’s where the deadlines are. My watch is set
Tommaso Chiarolini, an Italian designer and illustrator now based in Edinburgh, sent me this link. It’s from Playing for Change: Peace through Music and it