Anoche vi un concierto con mi amiga Tea. El concierto era en un teatro y era agotado. El cantante canté todas la canzones de su último álbum y sus canzones mas famosas. Él cantè mas que dos horas. Nos divertimos mucho.

Which tools do you need to eat? I was thinking about which cutlery you need to eat and the answer depends on the food. If you are eating a soup you need a spoon whereas if you are tasting a plate of spaghetti would useful to have a fork to roll them. For a steak, a fork is not enough because it's necessary also a knife more or less sharp depending on the tenderness of the meat. To eat a fruit salad it's mandatory a teaspoon whereas to taste a wedge of the Saint Honoré cake is better a dessert fork. Anyway cutlery isn't always essential: to really enjoy a slice of pizza is enough to use your hand and mouth.

When a song teaches you a new word: glasshouse Yesterday I was listening an old song on the radio and I caught a word that I didn't know: it was glasshouse. Checking on the vocabulary I discovered that is the enclosed place where you can farm plants so they are not influeced by the external environment. Thinking about glasshouses I thought that I didn't know the verb that express the action of giving the plants water, another check and here it is to water so simple! But what you use to water plants: watering can, quite easy too. Then I don't know why, but I started thinking about fairy tales where there are no glasshouse but water is taken from the well with a heavy bucket taking care that not a single drop got wasted. Get to this point I was to too thirsty to keep searching for new words so I had an orange juice to celebrate my new discoveries. Anyway there is a disappointing thing: I can't remember which song I was listening.

Would have been or would had been? I thought the mall would have been a good way to fight the hot weather but unfortunately the mall was closed yesterday so I had to come back to my home without air-conditioning and eating ice-creams. Is the sentence above correct or should I use "would had been"? Thanks.

Can seasons name be plural? Can I say "I spent two Summers in Canada in the nineties"? Or is better "I spent two Summer in Canada in the nineties"? Thanks.

Reading to bits I read a book but I didn't read all of it but only some chapters or paragraphs and I skipped most of the pages can I say "I read the book XXX to bits?"

Learning with the nettle The other day while I was reading a book in English, I met an expression I didn't know "Grasp the nettle". First I searched for nettle and I discovered that it is a stinging plant known in Italian as ortica. Second I searched for the expression "grasp the nettle" and I found out with surprise that it means to face problems with bravery. My surprise comes from the fact that even in Italian ortica is used in a idiomatic expression "gettare alle ortiche" but the meaning is complete differet. Indeed it means wasting something precious (energy, experience, time) in something useless. At this point I became curious to know how this Italian expression is translated in English and so I found out two other expressions that can translate the Italian expression "Throw out of the window" and "Throw to the winds". To sum up thanks to nettle now I know three more English expressions: who would have known that from a stinging plant comes so much knowledge!

Release date Yesterday I was searching for information about a movie I'm interested in and I made a bittersweet discovery. The film is going to be released in December 2016 but only in the US whereas it is going to be released in my country only in March 2016. So the good news is that the movie has a released date, the bad news is that I have to wait still for many months. But you know how they say: something is better than nothing.