Sally Ronchetti
My first Blog
The Year dot begins
I (Sally, Sal to some,) have missed writing a blog so much I will endeavour to begin this year with a new one called The Year Dot, or sallysyeardot.blogspot.com for people trying to find it online.
“Why Dot?” I hear you ask, …I’m sure I heard someone ask. Well as a few of you know, I was called Dorothy Sally originally on my birth certificate but somewhere along the line, long before I can remember, I have always been called Sally. However Dorothy stares up at me from that pink birth certificate and so that is what I have to put on all my important official documents including passports, health records etc. So thank you parents! Or should I say Dad, because when I asked my bohemian mother on one of my visits to her hillside mediaeval village inTuscany where she had resided for 35 years before her demise, she told me “Your father dealt with all that as you were a bit of a surprise!” (Thanks again!).
The Year Dot refers to this year, 2026. I have promised myself to write more and try to finish my book on Emily Hobhouse and my side of the Boers in South Africa. A book I started over ten years ago when I first discovered Emily was born in St Ive, a village I lived in for a few years. I may also write about my ‘interesting to some’ family that many people have said I should write a book about. Honestly you couldn’t make some of it up!
But, “Who is Emily?” I hear you ask. I’ll answer. She was an amazing victorian humanitarian, but more about her later.
Anyway, this weekly blog will be interesting to some, boring to a few and indifferent to many but tough titties I’m going to write it anyway.
Let the writing begin.