vuoi (vuole?) parlare italianese

[Alameda]

please please I beg on my knees

not yet, these things best done about 45 minutes before the gate closes!

am really excited about travelling da sola now, going to do the novel in 30 days thing (have you heard of it? Nanowrimo?) and there are not enough novels set in Sicily!

Could be the new Donna Leon

Oh god no, I get in such a tizzy travelling, I'm ready weeks days in advance!

Una ntattu novel? Wow. Iu l'accattaru quannu tu li finiri! A chi l'sia? (What will it be about?)

I don't know, anything that makes me laugh while I'm writing it it is for fun, not publication, just a challenge to write around 2000 words a day without editing yourself. But will have a Sicilian flavour, definitely! It should be around 50000 words by the end of the month.

Very open to ideas, I think I will set it in Palermo (around the drop zone) and there will be lots of sex and unexplained death with all the important characters being women.

are you tempted? nanowrimo

I wish I was better at packing, I never have enough pants and do you think I've paid enough attention in Italian class to buy some when I'm there?

The drop zone? Che ca?

Unexplained death for il commissario Montalbano?

Oops ciao. Oh I love buying pants on holiday!

Jesus no I failed my high school English exam I'm not doing anything to take me back to that!

I can't kill montalbano! That is blasphemy!

But while you are here, where/how best to enjoy tutti di Santi (?) etc?

drop zone - parachuting

think there is one in Palermo, my novel might have some skydiving in it so that I have an excuse to do 'research'

Oh no signucari pi iu a investigare!

I'm not really sure to be honest, I think most people will just go to Mass, to the cemetery, have dinner. You might get a parade though, that would be amazing! Food though- look for the ossi dei morti biscuits, e frutta martona, the marzipan fruits.

SKYDIVING? Oh dios mio you would really skydive?

certo! Non ti piaci?

NO mi piace manteriri mi piedi a terra! Sei impazzita!

(yes I am waving my hands at the screen)

Si molto molto audaci!

haha I can picture you now!

maybe am not ready for nonna-hood in some ways, LOVE moving at speed - in mia macchina, cavallo, tutti

Mamma mia, ubatzo!!! The plane taking off makes me feel sick! I cannot believe you would skydive E RALLENTARI quannu vai cu la maccina! PER FAVORE compartatevi bonu, madon, mi sento che sugnu telling off the DC before they go on holiday!

you are making me laugh out loud and am getting faces from mia figlia !

Me lo prometti you won't skydive? And if you do you will check twice that you have a parachute or lifeline or whatever the hell they call it?!

take off is one of my absolute favourite feelings in the world! The speed and the force, like a galloping horse

I even secretly liked the drama of an emergency landing once

Manegia, an emergency landing! Eeek

I probably can't afford it anyway, or would have to do a tandem (someone else in charge of the canopy) so non tu preoccupata! Eeek nipotino awake

Phew

Oh dear, hope he isn't up all night. Iu, sono andare a letto, cosi sogni d'oro e ciao ciao!

He was of course, for about four hours anyway!

really must pack today must must must

:)

Oggi fa bon tempu a Glasgow.

Have you packed Alameda?

forgot the

I hate packing btw. Actually I find unpacking even more tedious.