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Photo from May 2021:
Neighbours’ cat being quite catty … b/c looking at the—then new—dog (R.I.P. Jasper!). The cat visited again yesterday, jumped on the windowsill outside my office … waited under the birdfeeder … but the li’l birbs are clever ofc.
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I noticed while training that at some points the sun and the window where double-teaming my eyes, so I got this shot thinking “maybe I could convince some flat earthers that there are two suns” 
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Don’t be ridiculous, we already know there are three!
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I know it’s bit late for answering but the fact is that Bolognese is a so well established name in France that all famous sauce brands, the ones sold in hypermarkets, deliver that ragu as you call it in Italia under the Bolognese name (always with tomato and meat). A restaurant which would sell Bolognese without meat could quickly be put in front of a court by his clients.
In France “ragoût” refers to a way to accommodate the remains of meat from an older meal, and not especially with paste or tomatoes. I guess it’s bit same origin in Italia maybe too? But while Italian culture may have ennoble the term, French may have stayed with that feeling of cheap cooking and switch to an Italian poetic reference.
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The italian word comes from the french one.
They say that there are many kind of ragu in Italy. I’m used to have the one with the minced meat, which seems to be the “bolognese” version. Apparently the “napoletana” version uses a different kind of meat. I wasn’t aware of that.
So probably “spaghetti bolognese” is just for “spaghetti (with ragu) bolognese”.
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Here we use that for simple tomato sauce, no meat.
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This discussion instantly brought to mind the humorous line in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: “…and as for Mr. Hurst, by whom Elizabeth sat, he was an indolent man, who lived only to eat, drink, and play at cards; who, when he found her to prefer a plain dish to a ragout, had nothing to say to her” (Chapter 8).
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We had a discussion recently where construction site safety was mentioned with @shinuito and here is the image of the road towards my house. There are no safety features or red prohibitive tapes, I drove my bicycle through the contruction site (which is in the back of the photo) and all the vehicles and machinery are just parked around without any real measures of safety or account and people are habitually walking through the rubble and the machines.
Funniest thing though is this, the supposed lane for the blind people, which is filled with abrupt turns and nearby pitfalls:
Architectural magic 
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It’s the thought that counts?
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Not if the thought is “we are legally obligated to create a way, however we are not legally obligated for the path to be accessible, working, well designed or even remotely safe”
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Sounds perfectly Greek to me, from all the complaints you and Gia have listed here already
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maybe is a training lane.
if they survive that, they survive anything.
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It looks fine for the average person at least as a temporary thing while construction is underway, but I can definitely imagine it would be a good deal riskier for those with disabilities (though I don’t have a good sense of the degree to which something that looks like it would be dangerous blind wouldn’t be to someone with years of experience navigating blind)
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