Living: Ancient Industries 

will be away, investigating 

Abroad until September.

Living: Church bells. In Northern Europe

since the early Middle Ages (the Greeks

only got as far as banging a metal plate).

Photographs by Fuori Borgo, mille grazie!

Living: The Piaggio Ape, or "bee",

created in 1948, using the front half of

a Vespa. See also Hollister Hovey.

Living: The sickle, a traditional weed

whacker used by the women of Liguria, which

is also useful for reaping what is sown.

Photograph by Fuori Borgo.

Living: Chinotto, a bitter citrus

fruit which grows on the chinotto tree

in Liguria, and is best served on ice.

Living: The fishing net, as old as

Liguria itself, and still a vital industry.

Photographs by Fuori Borgo.

This week Ancient Industries is on virtual holiday 

visiting Fuori Borgo at her village in Liguria, Italy, 

a narrow strip of land between the Ligurian Sea and 

the Alps which was settled by the Neanderthals.

'Self Portrait', c. 1910, Metropolitan Museum

'My Work Room', 1917, Imperial War Museum

'Ready to Start', 1917, Imperial War Museum

Overlooked: William Orpen, master

of style, colour and the syphon bottle.

Living: The urban beehive, made easy.

(And chicken coops too), from Omlet.

Painting by Ralph Cava.

Dying: The British public house, popular since

the Anglo-Saxon sold ale from his sitting room.

Woodcut by William Nicholson, 1898.

Extinct: The first Apple store, a boutique

backed by the Beatles and fronted by design

collective The Fool. Baker Street, 1968.

Living: England vs Scotland.

The great haggis debate rages on.