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Ciao Patrons,

Thanks as always for your support and your presence, I wanted to tell you that the new page is almost finished, but also to tell you some things, they are all linked but I will start from the most recent.

Italy has been in lockdown since Monday... 

you can find all the news about it on the web, but the most absurd thing is that they have closed everything, even the parks. 

About this, I wrote to my mayor via facebook, because I now live in a small town on the border with Rome, where life is quieter, less smog but also problems, such as for example I'm waiting for them to put the fast Internet line for 13 years ... ADSL, and for 13 years I have been surfing at 6-7 mega through a small antenna installed on the roof, which I pay monthly. But the thing is about to be resolved ... I discovered, during a walk, the work in progress for ... THE FIBER !!! MIRACOLO !!! I can't believe it, I asked the workers during the work in progress and they told me that it will take one or two months to finish the work and I will be able to request it by subscription !! 

THE FIBER ... it seems like a dream to me ...

However, this is not the matter, the topic is that my mayor is always on facebook and speaks to his fellow citizens very openly, like mayor Quimby of Simpsons... 

He's only 30, so he's very "social". 

Well I had a chat with him last night to complain, to protest, because he decided to close even the parks ... the parks !! Sun and fresh air! For me this is insane. We are in total madness. 

He replied that there are so many problems, that he cannot control everything ... he fears crowds in the parks.  CROWDS?

I took pictures of my park, before closing, it is empty.

Apart from the fact that old people and children go to the park, it is the grandparents who babysit their little grandchildren while their parents work, from home, the park is a safe place. 

So here is the situation, I'm closed in the house again, it's terrible, it's frustrating, and this will last until April.

I hope that everything passes quickly, that I can go out and sunbathe.

Because I explained to the mayor that I'm not very well, indeed, I'm sick.

I did some blood tests and I have a lack of vitamin D, the normal values
are from 25 to 80 and I am 7 ... so I went to the doctor who prescribed me to sunbathe because I do not assimilate vitamin D and this is active with the sun. Having been locked in the house for more than a year this was the reason why I had this drop in vitamin D. Also because my house is north facing and the sun only comes during sunset, between 4:00 and 6:00. : 00 PM only on my balcony. 

See the pic with Fusilli.

So I had been going to the park for about 20 days to get an hour of sun, as prescribed.

But the mayor was adamant. Closed parks. Are the parks closed in your country as well? Just to have an idea if I am the one who is wrong, maybe I'm just panicking because the doctor told me I need to go out and get some sun for my health. And so I'm agitated.

The last thing I want to tell you is that unfortunately I can no longer send anything from Italy, I mean the traditional commissions that I used to love doing. Two reasons: there is a queue of HOURS outside my post office, even if it would be an opportunity to sunbathe ha ha ha ... no. Because those people are too many, too close, and THAT is a ASSEMBLY! The crowd is there, not in the park!

Apart from that ... the last time I sent my last drawing to Kanbe, it was December, I was told that I can no longer send things to America because they will be blocked and examined all! No. I don't want they to open the envelopes with the artworks I send you, as well as being very personal, I make impeccable packaging, very accurate, to get the PERFECT artworks, I cannot allow that an original drawing, one-of-a-kind, come pulled out and touched. Oh no.

In fact, the artwork for Kanbe, was hidden in the bottom of a box, containing sweets above XD , do you know how long it took to arrive? 3 months.

So I apologize but the next commissions will be digital, and for this the tier will be cheaper because there will be no shipping costs.

That's all for today, see you soon with other stories.

Vanessa