Wedding Favours and Pitagora..

This article deals with the superstition. In the past superstitions were very popular, but now they are dissapearing. I'll write one of this,. In my country, in Italy, there are a lot of superstitions, one of this is joined to wedding favours. This custom goes back to the origins of Pitagora, he associated even numbers to women's world, and odd number to men's world. The sum of the first female number, two, and the first male number, three, is five, that symbolizes marriage between a man and woman. So in wedding favours there are five sugared almonds, that we call " confetti ". In fact you can find only five sugared almond, if you found more than five, it would be unluckly for the couple.

British Meals

In England when they have breakfast, in the morning, they often eat toast served with butter, jam or marmalade. Cereals with milk but the traditional English breakfast is composed of eggs, bacon, sausages, tomatoes, beans and black pudding. At lunch they eat sandwiches, salads, snacks and meat. When they have dinner, instead, they eat meals based on rice or pasta, but the traditional dinner is toad in the hole, Yorkshire pudding with sausages, sherperd's pie, minced lamb with smashed potates up.

The new Marilyn

Michelle William was on the role of Marilyn Monroe in ' My week-end with Marilyn '. Her career started in 2005, when she had a part in Brokeback Mountain, she played Alma. The story of the film is a true story, when Marilyn went to England . The actress said that she grew up with Marilyn's pictures in her bedroom. Then she said there was a kind of relantionship as if that image was a sort of holding something over her. When Michelle played Marilyn, she didn't understand the difference between Marilyn's persona and her real life. So she decided to know about her life, she read about her, she saw Marilyn's video and recording. With her there was Kenneth Branangh, that played Sir Laurance Olivier. Michelle said that Kenneth took the weather with him wherever he goes. The she said, also, that he gave the greatest piece of film set advice: " Why stand when you can sit, and why sit when you can lay down? So, please, make yourself comfortable! "
I chose this article because I love actor and actress of  50s.

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Easter traditions of my town.

In my town, during the period of Easter, there are a lot of traditions. One of these is a preparation of a special cake, that is named "Pastiera". There are more types of this. This cake is prepared during the Holy Week. Then there is a pizza with sausages, and bread with eggs. All this mustn't be eaten before Easter. Good Friday night there is a procession of Jesus' Passion ( Via Crucis ). It is very moving. Instead on Holy Saturday there is a procession of little angels, made of kids , it is very cute, because there are a lot of kids. After Easter, there is our Patron Saint, that is to say Madonna Incaldana. The feast-days lasts three days. On teh Feast day the picture of Madonna Incaldanais brought around the city, then it is put into the Basilica dedicated to her. All days there are many concerts, to celebrate her saint name and to give her honours.

Saint George.

He is the patron saint of England. Nothing of George’s life or deeds can be established, but legends about him as a warrior-saint, dating from the 6th century, became popular and increasingly extravagant. His rescuing a Libyan king’s daughter from a dragon and then slaying the monster in return for a promise by the king’s subjects to be baptized. George’s slaying of the dragon may be a Christian version of thelegend of Perseus, who was said to have rescued Andromeda from a sea monster near Lydda. George was known in England by at least the 8th century. Returning crusaders likely popularized his cult, but he was probably not recognized as England’s patron saint until after King Edward III made him the patron of the newly founded Order of the Garter. He was also adopted as protector of several other medieval powers, including Portugal, Genoa, and Venice. His feast is given a lesser status in the calendar of the Church of England; a holy day of obligation for English Roman Catholics until the late 18th century, it is now an optional memorial for local observance. His feast day is the 23rd April, the same day William Shakespeare's birthday. 

Floyd Spotting!

Last Thursday I read an extract about Pink Floyd, that explains the youth of the members. They attended the County High School for Boys. All the members met there. Waters and Roger played in the same team, Barett was already an artist. David Gilmour played with Gordon in the Cambridge group. That school was an inspiration for "The Wall", because teachers beat them, and they wrote in the song, those lines as "We don't need no education" and " No dark sarcasm in the classroom". In effect the bassist sang about sadistic teachers hurt the children anyway they could. I read this extract because I love Pink Floyd, and their psychedelic music. I listen them when I was 8, with my father, from that moment I continue to listen them.