Little Italy 24

[BananaGio]

Ciao tutte!

Gio and Sputnik, I have just read that a Gap is opening in Eastern Rome on the 26th of May!

Lol at terminator!
Anyway, finally something positive :)
Great news re Gap!

Hello again! Yes I'm still in Milan, hanging on in there in more ways than one...(various relationship issues and my partner is trying to brainwash/bully me into moving to his home town, near where Bucharest lives...i'm not keen).
I'm off to the UK too next weekend, volcano permitting, so will miss the ballottaggio unfortunately but keeping my fingers crossed that Pisapia gets in.
will try and come on here more often!

hi all yes there are a few Gaps opening. One is opening on Via del Corso as well hurrah.
Spaghettina sorry to hear things are not so great. How likely is it you will move? Go and enjoy the UK and will keep fingers crossed for all you travellers re bloody volcano.

Rosa - British indian wedding with lots of money to spend (for daughter) for guests to fly in. Must have been hilarious seeing elephants trotting down the lovely walkways on canal. Hope it added to the local economy. I love a big old posh indian wedding but it certainly puts the ones I've been to into the shade.

Hope everyone all good.

Just finished ds's 5th birthday - it was done in stages and finished today with two (yup) parties - one for school friends - a cool £600 (!) at a play centre and the second with dh's community at our place immediately after. Both expensive - both excellent but quite honestly I'm knackered beyond belief and we are now very poor.

But all worth it. A very happy ds and parents that have FINALLY ingratiated themselves with their local school community.

We going to mil's in august - it looks like my cousin might be coming which is great for me.

Ds is starting to speak Italian - with me. But seriously, I'm really bloody happy actually and we hope to build on it. I'm liking this development. Very much.

Hi everyone - giveitago, I can relate to your post-birthday knackered-ness, I was the same after DD's 1st birthday recently, it was a tour de force and we really only celebrated with close family and a handful of other friends with babies. At this age it was more for us than for her (us having survived the first year!), but my MIL kept talking about the importance of creating a memory and photos for her to look back on when she's older, so we ended up with a house full of party decorations, balloons, non-stop photo sessions and a huge cake, and a rather subdued DD bewildered by all the commotion... Am looking forward to giving parties when she's older, with games etc. but slightly alarmed at the cost!

Banana - it's not likely we'll be moving in the near future (apart from a full month there in August), at the moment it looks more likely we'd split up than me going to live there, but it's a decision that doesn't have to be confronted for a year or so I hope. He's threatening to move there and take DD with him (via courts) if I don't agree to going , I'm trying to keep everything together here until she's a bit older.

On a lighter note - I love Baby GAP stuff! Shame it costs so much here compared to the UK, not to mention the States... eagerly awaiting summer sales/cash injection

quiet out there. Anyone there??
Got ds's recita tomorrow. He has also got his school trip coming up. Its in a park an hour outside Rome and DP is bollocking me for being too PFB with him as I dont want him going on an hours trip up the Cassia in a pullman. I have been overuled but it will be a long day!
I love Rome in May-there is a lovely, soft breeze coming in my window at the moment and sun is shining. Having thunderstorms every pm at the moment though.

giveitago, glad the birthday went well and at least ds is speaking some Italian now. Spag thats awful that you are being threatened with the courts if you dont move! Where in the south is it? Is it more that you dont want to go south or that you are not happy with dp thats the issue?

Back all went very very well.... Panic re volcano but no probs at all with flights. Minirosa was a bit of a pain on some planes but the last one she was great ..Maybe hope for a longhaul holiday in Autumn. Back to heat (WTF)and a school prove for the end of season party domani when rain is forecast !!!!
Must dash a splumber coming to install teh air conditioning he should have done it weeks ago.....

ooh air con Rosa-am jealous! Glad went well in UK.
Not remotely embarrassed having just watched Berlusca corner Obama to tell him about the left wing dictatorship with the judges in Italy. Che vergogna!

That man is just a complete idiot ..But thankfully Obama is more intellegent to believe him ..Thing is what will teh rest of teh world think about teh italian population having voted the tosser in twice!!!
ANy idea if us residenti but not citizens can vote in these referendums? I can vote for teh communale and regionale but not the main ones but for these I don't have a clue...

i'm not sure to be honest if we can vote or not?
Just had ds's recita. Very sweet, such a difference to a year ago when he was so overwhelmed! At the end the kids sang the Italian anthem.... Cue 2 nonni in front to stand up. Which promped the dad sitting near me to ask them to sit down so he could see his figlia. And so all hell broke out! Huge argument re how everyone should stand etc etc. Blatant sides drawn between left and right with loads joining in. The class superglam parents (have a villa in Rome with pool - go figure) came over to shake hands with the standing Nonni and talk about the scourge of the left. Actually quite disturbing to see how close to the surface these emotions run. Am political myself but it was a recita for 4 year old bimbi FFS.....

We have just done the festa and all went well. Dds teacher announced she was pregnant so that means dd will not have her teacher for the last year am a bit sad but pleased for the teacher. I just hope they don't try to tamponare with nuns couldn't imagine anything worse for a year ...Oh well vediamo and I have minirosa starting there in Sept ...... Oh well it hasn't started raining yet but I have a lovely fresh house ........

Franca ma dove sei?????????? Volevo solo dirti grandeeeeeeeeeee

Hello my dears, sorry I disappeared, but last week - on the spur of a moment - I decided to give up MN until Pisapia got voted in

Supersticious, moi? . Yesterday has been such a great day, I was in Piazza Duomo at 3 (me, and other 30 people in orange and 56 degrees) and had to go back home and fetch the dc at 6, therefore missing all the major action, but I loved it!

Anyway, I missed you all, Rosa, glad to hear you had a lovely time in the UK. Gio at the parents at the recita. But I bet master gio was super cute.

I don't think you can vote for the referendum, sadly. But you can tell all the people you know to go and vote

Spaghettina, I hope you manage to sort out the differences with your husband. He sounds very selfish and how cruel to threaten to get dd and move there with her. So sorry to hear this, please feel free to post on here for support, if you feel like it.

Thought you would have the champagne out Franca .....thing is will teh rest of Italy have the courage now to do something about it all ?....... Or will Mr B keep filling their pockets with bribes or whatever it is he does to get votes.
Opening of teh Bienale this few days ..its manic it hasn't been a s busy as this since 2001 Dh reckons. Which is very positive indeed..... Pity the opening is only 3 days !!! Minirosa had a febbre yesterday but seems to have gone today and no other symptoms....BOH !

We'll see Rosa, we'll see... Mr B. has already managed to say a fair amount of cavolate in the last few hrs.

Oh poor minirosa, I hope it's nothing serious. Dd is still taking antibiotics as she had tonsillitis. She still has a stuffed nose. All these bugs still going!

Glad to hear there is lots of expectation for the Biennale, even if I know it might create practical problems for the locals. When are you going to the seaside?

I'm very happy too about the election result in Milan!
Shame we missed the party in Piazza Duomo yesterday, must have been a great atmosphere, but we were returning from a very pleasant trip to England.
There were no "diplomatic incidents" in famiglia as there have been in the past, and the cool cloudy weather was a welcome break from the heat here - although iwe seem to have brought the weather back with us...

Thanks Franca for your support. I hope things work out long term too but am increasingly fed up and losing my patience.
To answer Bananagiò, it's a combination of not wanting to live down there , and the fact that our relationship is so rocky that I would not want to end up isolated miles from my friends and family and be forced to live there for god knows how many years if we break up.

I thought I could vote in the referendum but apparently not?

Hi Spaghettina, glad to hear you had a lovely break in the UK. I miss the UK, it's been 1 yr now since we went back, I really want to go now!

I totally agree with your reasoning. Moving to a different (and smaller) place is stressing and isolating enough, but it is 1000 times worse if your relationship with the other half is not as good as it should be.

Hi everyone, sorry I've been awol too, great news Franca!
Lovely to hear about the recita too Gio, it's so great to see them making progess with these things. I have to cobble together an Old MacDonald costume for DS's recita soon.
Spaghettina, hope things improve for you, it sounds like a difficult situation.

I am suffering with 2 days of ponte and then another 2 days at home with thunderstorms forecast...arrggghhhh we might try fingerpainting this afternoon if I can ensure minirosa will not paint the walls.

Good luck!

Ciao Sputnik! Hello everyone, what a dreadful weather for this ponte!
Next week is the last week at school, and then 3 months of holidays... aiuto!

Thank heavens I have materne for this year and next so we can go through June ...The holidays are sooo long it really is silly but of course they couldn't do anything about that ( Berlusca and his crew ) could they it would mean spending money on ......Children !