ok so who can tell me why ronald is a wonderful,caring and absolutely honest person with no guile who runs this place ...

and puts up with us ...

the correct answer of my choice will be within the first three answers... after that if the answers carry on and i have found no exceptioanl repsonses which satisfy my warped view on life i will only give five pound for the next best... unless of course its spelled correctley and has excellent grammer then it will go back up to ten... an award for spelling will make my initial donation go up by another 2 pounds... if none of the first three posts falls within that category...note my spell check is american english...is there such a thing....
and is all this too convuluted... Roanld is not allowed to enter

note i did not run a spell check on this...

to make it unclear... cause i just read the above i think it will be a donation of twelve pounds if spelt correctley and is ingratiating enough to embaress the person that runs the place

of course it all depends on me finding my way back here...

:star:
Well done Adriatica for being the first!!!

Ronald ...hmmm... now let me see. I haven't really been around long enough to get to know him so probably not best qualified to have a go at this one! Sorry! I'll have a stab with this:- Because he was raised by wolves?

Can I add to my original post though that whoever answers correctly (or in this case whoever makes Adriatica laugh the hardest and Ronald squirm the most) will be expected to provide the next question (and donation!)

Something about Ronald... Wasn't that a movie? ;)

ok i pay the money and ask a real question ...so for two pounds

where do all the woolly abruzzi end up for the winter

a wrong... you dont say where the picnic is.....

b your thinking of pensioned off canadians

c what is or where is moxies house... cause technically it could be in the right area... but i have a feeling its in the direction from here that one thinks about getting colder not warmer

well they might but the maremma have told them that they must day in a group and not do anything stupid... and sticcking lenghts of slidey things on their feet ... would definitely make them look silly and might well be dangerous... your definitely getting colder

Jinty I can confirm that over the last four winters I have seen hide nor hair of any woolly Abruzzi at my house.
To the best of my knowledge they did not attend the picnic today although the fella sitting to my left was quite hairy!! ;)

My guess - Bora Bora??

...tua casa Mr C as well you know!

Where do these blessed sheep go in the winter ?...hmmm...thinking...thinking...

Mox

look i already owe 12 ...now i got to pay more???? ok then

but someone put me out of my misery soon.... otherwise i am going to have to dig a "pit" for myself again

I searched Google for "pecore, abruzzo, inverno" and the only stories that came up are about sheep being eaten up by bears or wolves...

http://newscontrol.repubblica.it/item/509310/orso-sbrana-tre-pecore-in-a...

Then I though ok let us just ask Google straight "Dove vano le pecore di Abruzzo in inverno" and I get the answer "nei pagliai" - which obviously raises the question: "What ARE pagliai then...."

So back to Google with "pagliai, pecore" which gives nothing much. Then we try Google Images and I get this

http://www.leditoriale.com/uploads/news/1226434876-1698-pagliare-tione_b...

and this

http://www.leditoriale.com/index.php?page=news&news=149

and that is my answer. H) :)

So that is it is it Adriatica? You have been stringing us along for a little stone house?! Hrmmmmph ... I am going to suggest that they consider Bora Bora as a winter holiday destination for this year...

Sooooo... we must wait for Adriatica to wake up from his snooze to find out if indeed Ronald was right with this
http://www.leditoriale.com/index.php?page=news&news=149

If so 'The Big R' is next up with a question (and the answer jolly well better not be little stone house!) :bigsmile:

if i could award you the prize i would ... because i seem to be slowing things down here ... i really must give another clue i think... the place they go to has an old reputaion for having loads of pits to store wheat in days long past... hence its name derives from that latin word... the place the sheep depart from is L'Aquila... although other places too but thats the famous route ... and i belive its around a 2444 km walk although with my broken shin i have been unable to ceriry the correctmess of this... along old compacted earth routes...

there are quite a few festa that derive from this aincient practice... and i do love my festas

i have a feeling as well that alpine sheep do the same sort of thing... but other destinations...

did i say one clue ...

the little stone houses... and we have a few up in the mountains here ...did not fit enough sheep in... once moxies hairy chappie was inside... but they are very much to do with sheep herding of the past... and i remember a posting with pictures ... maybe from Bruno or Stefano in the past on that

http://www.roangelo.net/valente/tratturo.html
So is the answer Puglia?
Whether it is or not, I've learnt something new and now want to know more. Thanks Adriatica!

PS - am I supposed to put some money into the pot - or have I forced Adriatica to??? Or both

If Adriatica approves your answer then he gets to put his money in the pot and then you (if you are right) provide the next question and the next donation.
Ie For two pounds who can tell me such n such... and so it goes on :)

Thanks for joining the fray Anne ;)

transumanza

because yo are so close and Puglia is the region... your answer has reulted in me at long last getting out of this quagmire... and will add my 20 pounds... to the just giving collection as soon as i stop writing... well before the night is out...

its a really interesting part of abruzzo history tied in with puglia... the actual city i was looking for was Foggia... which is the link to why i asked i guess... in aincient times both L'aquila and Foggia suffered from destructive quakes...

Onna also is very much to do with this tradition ... the little village which is more or less a symbolic emblem in Italy anyway for the tragedy

the pits... foggia gets its name... well as far as i know from its agricultural background and is the capital of the wheat plains of italy... at least as far as the south is concerned and it was stored in Pits within the city...

the Puglians then started taxing the sheep men of abruzzo for the sheep they brought and obviously the traditional movement of sheep to the plains of Puglia for winter began to die out... before that however the local agriculture in Puglia suffred as they cleared huge tracts of land to allow the sheep to graze...

reminds me a bit of the wild west films where cattle barons hated the sheep herders...

what is relevant for modern times i suppose is that many of these aincient tratturi are now bing re opened for walkers and cyclists... even horse riding...

anyway anne... according to rules posted by moxie... its up to you to get this thread( is that the right term now) back on track and earning money

WELL DONE

j

:star: Thanks again Adriatica for your brilliant question - That's my new thing learnt for today.
Brave attempt Big R! Little stone house indeed hrmmmph.

The floor is yours Anne...

We can, given the layout, have two questions running concurrently

So both Anne and Mr C can put up a question! :) More money for the pot!! Wahooooooo!

Answerererers... Please reply to the question rather than starting a post underneath - thanks!

Oh shoot - I'm cooking supper - can you wait until I have some Google time later???? (smell of burning garlic in background)

It's and old'un but a good'un - but damned if I can remember. Anyway, meanwhile, who hid under a weighbridge to escape? There's a Marche connection and the answer is actually in the old forum (for a fiver)

...I am the only one brave enough to answer this one don't you madam?

Answer - Turn the packet upside down and all the umm... illegitimates? fall out!

:O

Tune
Tune
Tune
Chune

What is this? (For a fiver)

tune
tune
tune
chune

What is this?

Jinty was a wrong a six wrong people in the wrong pub :bigsmile:

here's a bit of a clue: we're talking WWII

It is a brain teaser dearest

tune tune tune chune - It's like one of those silly things you used to find in the Daily Mail

Mox

Bang goes another fiver eh?

Well done Jinty

I've added paging by default (a new page every 30 comments) and also you can personalise it any way you prefer.

however - could I suggest that you start a new post for every question?

it is enough you tag them with "abruzzo quiz" and we will be able to collect them under a category automatically. also it will be easier to understand what is the question we are dealing with without having to go through lots of pages, etc -

He wrote a book. It happened in the province of Fermo. The book was translated into Italian in 2005.

That's 4 clues in all. If you get it without me having to direct you to a website the Appeal gets a tenner. Otherwise it's a fiver. Tough but fair I think ........

I have always been hopeless at quizzes, that is why I never participate in them; however, I am putting 10 pounds in the kitty as a fine for being incompetent. :)

:star: The word 'Angel' once again springs to mind.
You are brilliant. Thank you!

OK - you've got till midnight. After that I'm off to Italy and unlikely to be checking in for a few days. Now you'll only have yourselves to blame if I have to give you the ultimate clue and halve my donation. >) I don't want to do it, but if you make me then ...... >) >)
[Edit - those were supposed to be evil smileys but don't seem to pictorialise]

PS - I agree this is getting confusing - took me a while to find my own posts here. Moxie - can you impose some order on us!?

I have indeed tried to impose some order by gathering your question and clues onto a new post Anne, I will copy your 'ultimatum' over there too in a moment ( complete with evil smilies!!)

Moxie

Ken Da Souza