Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

Sudan

Today, the House of Commons Foreign Affairs committee reported that: “The security situation has deteriorated further in the six months since our last Report, with an alarming increase in the number of attacks in the approach to the handover of... Read more →

Etna, Vulcano and Stromboli

Sorveglianza Visiva This link, I hope, takes you to webcams of the three active volcanoes in Italy. Enjoy! t Read more →

Excellent cadavers

Last week both The Independent and Guardian reported the Castellammarese mafia clan had muscled in whilst Steven Soderberg was on location at Scopello where he was directing "Oceans 12". Scopello is a few miles away from the clan's base at... Read more →

Why?

Isn’t Iraq getting better? That was a question, asked by one of my e-correspondents. Of course it’s a trap. Say yes- and there you are justifying the invasion. Say no- and you are a supporter of Saddam. But the starting... Read more →

Holiday Pix

Castellammare del Golfo July 2004 Read more →

Lunchtime in Sicily

Voracious clams Yours truly finishing a plate of spaghetti with clams or as the menu described "voracious clams". The restaurant is "La Cambusa" overlooking the port at Castellammare del Golfo Sicily. Read more →

Light the blue touch paper

This is from funny old world in this weeks Eye! "I wanted to play a prank on her, but I can see now that I hadn't really thought it through," thirty-five-year-old Shannon Kramer admitted to police officers from his hospital... Read more →

Anti Social Behaviour.

I've just returned from a week spent in a small town in western Sicily. Castellammare del Golfo is about 40 kilometers from the island's capital Palermo. It is a small town and according to a teacher I met there a... Read more →