Mastercard, Visa and now Amazon. Oh dear the walls are closing in around me. I'll have to go down to the bank at the bottom of the hill and get out piles and piles of money; more sadly, I'll have to go to Feltrinelli and buy all my new books in the flesh (so to speak); and I'd only just settled down in front of the fire for the winter with my new Kindle.
Books for Christmas are back on the present list. Worse, I'll have to think of another present for one of the small HGs. Travelling about a lot it would have been ideal to have been able to summon up any book during a boring journey. But no, Amazon have to blot their copybook and creep to American authoritarians.
They don't want to offer service to Wikileaks? Angels don't want to offer custom to them.
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Never mind the Kindle, perhaps we could pop in to the perfume shop in piazza dei ciompi?
A comment from Anna Raccoon's blog:
"@A2Mac December 7, 2010 at 21:22
Govnernment Propoganda Media News Headlines:
In a joint statement read out by Hilary Clinton at the White House Paypal, Mastercard, VISA, CIA, FBI, NSA, UK Governments, Swedish Judges, Sweedish Prosecutors, EveryDNS, Amazon, Interpol, The MET, Home Office & the Swiz banks all denied there is a conspiracy against Julian Assange.
They confirmed that it is all perfectly normal for a worldwide manhunt to be initiated whenever a Condom breaks during sex in Sweden. That Julian Assange is being detained as they are worried about his mental health and that he is being flown to the USA to receive the best treatment available at a state of the art medical centre in Cuba called St. Gitmo
In other news: Murderers, Real Rapists, Child Molesters, Terrorists and Liberal Democrats continue to commit crimes and the police are so busy completing important paperwork they will have to stay in the police station.
Government Ministers go back on 10 foot high written pledges and introduce legislation in total opposition to election campaign promises stating that when campaigning they had been living in a bubble in the desert and they were not aware of the dire economic conditions facing UK. It is believed they had so much expenses money to spend they had no idea the country was about £1trillion in debt.
Now the weather. Sunny, Sunny, No Snow anywhere and all the roads in Scotland are working well."
Perhaps we should ALL pop into the perfume shop in piazza dei Ciompi.
Such a lovely woman there - knows more about scent than anyone and explains why some things work or don't work for whom. She made my scent-for-very-grand-occasions. it has that wonderful woody very slightly spiced smell of florentine silk velvet mantles taken from cedarwood chests, and the smokiness that touches everything from oak fires burning all winter long.
Which is an antidote to that other instantly recognisable smell of Florence; turn on the tap and the water could be from no other river on the planet.
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