Little Italy 26

[Rosa]

Siamo qui ... Ciao a tutti !

First of all I apologise for the number of mistakes in my last post !

Yes, the invention of cervicale and colpo d'aria, so Italian .
I've been thinking about equivalent expressions for don't hold your breath but nothing good comes to mind.

Rosa, keep rubbing! And I hope you manage to get it checked asap.

I have to say that we've never get any personal stuf stolen from school, bar ds loosing the odd grembiule and pens.

Oh Rosa that sounds so sore, I hope today it is better.

My mother drives me mad with her cervicale. Her best though, she truly believes that the air 'goes off' after about 2.30pm and says I should not take the baby out after then

I love making pasta, but it's so much work to make enough for everyone here.

Celtic 2-1 Ajax

Lol lol lol at annunziata's mum air theory

How are you Rosa? Any better? lol at the past-it's-best air from your Mum Annunziata. Love the Italian fear of air. And water. My FIL is waiting with glee for the inset of early arthritis in me so he can blame it on me letting my hair dry naturally.
So far nothing stolen from ds school although he is the worlds most disordidnato child ever and loses things constantly. Unless it has the AS Roma brand on then great care is taken...

Ciao!

I hope your foot is improving, Rosa.

Update on the school break-in - the police have found and arrested the burglars. As it turns out, it was an adolescent gang, they were responsible for other burglaries in the area too. They are in the process of sorting out all the stolen goods (it seems there was quite a haul!), which means the school should have things returned soon. Hurrah!

Haha @ colpo d'aria. So quintessentially Italian! Here they are all obsessed with sweating. I'm constantly being warned that my children will sweat or are sweating with every activity, as though it were some kind of dreadful disease, and mothers will take spare vests and tops along to parties with them for dc to change when they inevitable sweating has taken place. It doesn't seem to occur to any of them that wearing a vest, an extra layer of clothing, is more likely to make you sweat, especially in hot weather...

Thanks for your concern its getting better thanks. Had 1 physio session and its an inflamation under the scafoid and cuboid ( yeah right) but after one manpiulation and laser session it is better but have to rest.. Blimey I now realise how much I do as having to sit on my bum and Ipad / watch tv I was bored after 3 hrs ..anyway have another session inthe morning and I hope that for nezt week I will be back to normal including palestra as I miss it!!!
Dh is an aria freak but he is also always warm so thankfully I can have the window open when needed . MIl is the antibiotic queen and you have to have them for everything and is most cross when the doc doesn't prescribe them. Every ilness has an origin and virus do not exist!!!
Gio do you have the VPN thing on ypur ipad ? I tried loading a free 24 hrs one the other night when downton abbey was not appearing on filmon and it wouldn't load. I have told dh that I want it but he is crappio at paying for anything like this yet for£5 a month its worth it!!!

Yes Rosa, My Private Network. Love love it. Get it now on your ipad and boredness will lift... You can also do a month trial for a fiver and get a month free trial on netflix.
Lol lol lol at viruses not existing, your MIL is from the same school of thought as my FIL. Saying an illness comes from a virus in giro doesnt give him the chance to aportion blame and talk about due to his wonderful parenting DP was apparently never ever ill.

Hello my dears.
Rosa, so glad to hear the foot is on the mend and that you've discovered the origin of the soreness, hope you feewl 100% soon, my dear.

Lol at the sweating and the antibiotics. Alex they do the same here re the sweating. They take children to the park in June when it's hot and then say "Lorenzo don't run or you'll sweat...".
My mum is a fervent believer in the evilness of colpo d'aria. Colpo d'aria causes stiff necks, diarrhea, colds and even broncopolmoniti. Mind you, when I was living in the UK I was permanently plagued by colds. It was the wind, I am sure

My personal pet hate are the calze antiscivolo that brave mamme bring everywhere, even when the children are 10.

I must do this vpn thingy too. Though me and dd managed to watch every episode of TBBOff thanks to filmon.

Sorry to hear of your foot trouble Rosa, glad to hear you're on the mend.

Must see what VPN is all about too. But would I have time to watch anything I wonder..

Aaah, the good old colpo d'aria. Every single time DD/me gets a cold or a vomiting bug, DD's nonna, bisnonna and various aunts always say, "E come mai??", completely baffled.
I reply "It must be a virus, the kind that causes colds/tummy bugs" and then they ignore that and say "Maybe she went outside and got a colpo d'aria/Perhaps DD sweated/ had indigestion/ Perhaps you should take more care over how you dress her "(MIL - she's well-meaning but sometimes... grrr!)
A stash of antibiotics is kept on hand at all times and dispensed freely without recourse to advice from a doctor.

Because this attitude is so widespread I always wonder, do Italian doctors also believe in the colpo d'aria even after medical training, or do they just not bother to correct people? Or perhaps it's true after all...

Lol, boh, I am pretty sure there are lots of doctors believing in the colpo d'aria.
And many who get all sorts of abuse because they don't prescribe antibiotics at the drop of a hat.

I am making a cheese cake, by the way, to combat today's grey weather.

I had to go and see a doctor when I was expecting DS4, it was August in Lazio (oh god I was miserable!) and he told me off for not wearing a sottoveste.

I have not baked in ages, but I want to make ossu di mortu this week.

Mmm which cheesecake recipe do you use Franca? Is it the baked kind or the one you just put in the fridge? I've never attempted cheesecake but it's one of my favourites so only a question of time.

Am very happy as have just learned I'm going to become an aunt and DD is to have her first real cousin!
Have a great weekend everyone

Boring weekend .fog and dap , marathon today so road blocked out of the city . Not really wanting to do anything !,, Foot seems much better and hope to go o gym tom or I might go mad!!!
...Gio signed up for MPN ..can get BBc but ITV links to i tunes and can't download sent a message to them but want o watch downton sta sera ...any suggestions????

Arrgghhh have to vent. Agreed that minirosa could go to Nonna, Said please just have a quiet time in the pm as she is tired and needs to recouperate... So they went walking over the city . She is exhausted stinks of an ashtray even though MIl doesn't smoke in front of her. So now I have washed her testa a piede and now have to try and get her to bed also with the cambio d'ora me thinks fun week ahead...

Congratulations, Spaghettina! I made the basic recipe, I did the one in giallozafferano, simply because it was the first one I found while out and about so bought the ingredients listed there.

It's quite a long process, (it goes in the oven for 1 hr), but quite simple. Next time I want to make one with an english recipe, I prefer it.

Oh rosa, I hope minirosa isn't too knackered today.

I do a simple one with Philadelphia / mascarpone and fruite puree but it is rather fattening, I have been looking at my GBBO cook book that was a present last year and I have itchy baking fingers!!!!! I saw on Real time that they are doing an Italian Version - should be interesting!!!!

Just popping in to say that I had an absolutely amazing time in Rome.
Thanks for all your help; we need to go back and see/do more stuff, as we spent a lot of (very enjoyable) time just walking around the streets of the city looking at the buildings, stopping when we felt like it, and people watching.
Oh, and eating. The food!!!! Far too good, far too fattening.
Bit bemused by the fake fakirs sitting in the air in their orange gowns. Are they a speciality of Rome, or commonly found all over Italy?

Glad you had such a good time Auld. You had perfect weather for wandering around. Re fakirs not sure if are around Italy?? I remember seeing them in Rome a year or so ago and since then they are alway there in the centre everytime I go.
We went to the beach on sunday for my birthday and it was lovely. As was laying on the sand reading my kindle. At the end of October.
Rosa sorry am too late for downton question. Do you have your VPN switched on when you try to download itv app? I downloaded the apps when I was in uk so dont have experience of doing here.

Ciao ragazze!

Auld, happy to hear you had a good time in Rome, it was unusually warm even here in Milan! We have fakirs here too, in corso vittorio emanuele, it's been a year now. Must be an international trend, as we saw also saw some in Covent Garden this summer

Nothing new to report. I am now almost adjusted to the new routine of ds coming home for lunch and still at the amount of food consumed in my household.
I am going to a hata yoga class this morning, so I better go and tidy up.

Rosa, dd and I adore watching TGBBO, I have read that the italian version will be hosted by Crisitna Parodi, I don't like her!!!

So glad you had a good time in Rome - yes its still mild up here as well but damp ..not good washing weather at all !
We don't have the sitters here - they would probably get 'moved on' which rather defeats the object really !!! We have only 1 or 2 fixed street entertainers a mimic and a carnival statue and more when it is Carnival or some event . They are pretty hot on licences here.
Glad you had a good time on your birthday Gio and i have managed to do it took me ages but find that the quality of the live tv is better on Filmon. Anyway I will probably pay by month as over xmas will be in the Uk anyway. Dh was most surprised when I said I had loaded it all etc ! ( I tend to blank all techno stuff an let him do it all for ease really !)
My foot is better but I did 30 mins of my class the other night and it ached so stopped. I want to go back to the gym but am worried that I will force it so doing some sit ups and other things at home .
HAd a letto continitore put in yesterday .. I love it already and have been filling underneath with spare cushions / coperte etc but I need to go to ikea !!!!

Buon ognissanti, hoping the rain stays off so I can get to the cemetery tomorrow.

An Italian version of Bake off! I must tell DD, she loves it.

Hi ragazze, hope you all had a nice long weekend.

We spent lots of time lazying around at home, after both ds and dd attended Halloween parties on Thursday night. We watched lots of movies together (ds was particularly impressed by Zoolander) but me and dh also managed to go out 2 evenings in a row, saw friends and even went to the cinema !

Today it's very wet and I have spent half morning in Esselunga .

Nice Franca, what did you see at the cinema? We went to a Bonfire Night - it rained so felt very British despite the ridiculously mild weather. Did a lot of lazing around and a lot of work (dull). Did you get to Ikea Rosa?

We saw Gravity. I have realized that in 1 yr I've been to the movies 6 times, and 2 movies were children ones. I used to go at least once a week . The good thing is that now I tend to like pretty much everything we see, given that it is such a rare occasion

Oh, how lovely a Bonfire Night! I still remember our last bonfire night in the UK with fondness. Did master Gio enjoyed it?

Still mild here too, and such a glorious day today.
Where's Rosa, I wonder? I hope she is not lost in IKEA land! I haven't been in ages, and now it's time to go, with all the christmassy things!

Btw, I have just discovered that Paperchase now delivers to Italy. I adore Paperchase, I need to control my instinct to buy the whole shop now.