Carpetblogger
Caustic commentary from emerging and declining empires. Mostly the latter.
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Flea Market Peggy Guggenheim
I have always viewed Peggy Guggenheim as my spirit animal. I have come to accept, however, that she enjoyed certain social and financial advantages I lack. I will probably never own a villa on the Grand Canal in Venice, filled with artists...
I Get It Now
By most predictions Europe’s hottest summer ever comes to an end tomorrow. Temperatures will drop 12-15 degrees (F) to those more typical of mid-August. It may even rain for more than an hour once a week. It’s been too hot to do anything in...
Death Comes to the Hamlet
Eventually you reach an age, when faced with someone’s death, you know the gestures to make and the words to say to the people who need them. If you’re an adult person, it shouldn’t be difficult especially if it’s in your own language and c...
Fertile Queens and Fat Bulls
Quick bee update here, without getting bogged down in Bee Talk. The hive inspection Friday night revealed one of my queens, who had been blocked for late summer varroa treatment, was dead in her plastic chamber.
Dead queen
She was a 2025...
Ask Carpetblogger: What did you find at the flea market this week?
Astute readers will recall lightning struck me at one of my favorite flea markets1 a couple of weeks ago. A nicely framed old photo of a northern Italian village caught my eye. I paid €5 for it, got it home and determined it’s probably wort...
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Not my circus. Not my monkeys. Living in Nice, FR for a decade, but often in the Ligurian Alps of Piemonte. Once an Istanbullu, always an Istanbullu. I like textiles and food, the Med coast of Italy/FR and other difficult places.
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