I am a retired Teacher of the Deaf, recently widowed but still interested in meeting new people for conversation and to improve my French and Italian. I have two daughters and two lovely grandchildren, a boy and a girl. I have also acquired a very sweet spaniel who is very amusing. My interests are in the theatre, ballet and the arts and I love to draw portraits mostly in pencil. I used to live in Italy many years ago but at the time in the 70s there were a lot of strikes so it was quite difficult