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buonasera!

Sole mare ..magari.DH e in arrivo oggi da Italia and he said shall I wear a jacket or put it in the valigia ??? I have heard that Puglia is lovely but never been ( strange I know but sud Italia is a bit foreign to me )
Franca going back to Italy your dcs will adapt back easily don't worry . My sister moved 250miles when hers were 4,6,8 and they settled in fine. Sister made a big thing of keeping in touch with friends from old town but they have only kept in touch with a few now..childrens choice.

ciao rosa! how's it going in lovely cornwall? did you make the most of the beautiful weekend?
I'm not sure, I have lots of doubts and worries about going back, despite loving the idea of going back iyswim...
lots of practical things which make me apprehensive.... have to run now, I have a dentist appointment (again), be back with more anxieties !

Weekend was lovely. Sat went for long walk with dd in the buggy and then in the pm she played happy as larry in the garden. She was a bit off colour teething ?? so sunday she played in the garden which for her is paradise. Oh no more dentist hope its not anything nasty.. Dh arrivng later am excited more for him seeing dd.Tanto I fall into secondo posto se sono fortunato !!!!

I'm happy you made the most of the lovely weather over the weekend.
Tooth (well the hole) is healing nicely, you'll be happy to know!
welcome to mr rosa then!

papa arrived sano and his dd was so happy at seeing him big smiles all round and I am being ignored ( by both !!!) We will see if he is happy at 6.30 am when she wakes up !!!! Glad the hole is clearing up ok . I was going to dentist but he is on hols so it is remandato a Natale.

thanks sweetie

I love my new name,thankkkyouuuu.
Grazie Franca for future info about Puglia.
I need to go to the dentist too, I dread it.
Cornwall must be beautiful!

ring the dentist! It's dreadful, but I've learnt from experience never to neglect the first sign of toothache

I think I might be the only mntter who's never read harry potter

I haven;t either!

Its ok Franca I meant he is on holiday ( hols) just been to the beach this morning it was great. DD now sleeping exhausted!Thinking about name as RosaLuxemburg has a similar one...Even nonna read the first H potter books!

Tis a lovely day here as well (pity that I wasted it on mn, instead of doing translation or sit in the garden to get a tan...)

Print a page of translation and go and sit in the garden and do it ! I am sending pics to zia of dd on the beach then I am out to do Grandmas weeding.... Has to be done and she is not up to all the bending. DH cutting grass so we are in favour today !

printer is broken. Everything is breaking down. The house is collapsing and getting dirtier and I'm n MN !

Ciao... I am back...! I finished writing my paper at ... wait for it... 5.00 a.m., had two hours' sleep and then went to the conference. It didn't help that at about 2.00 a.m. I decided I didn't like the way it was going and rewrote the second half. Anyway, it went OK in the end, but we had a very small audience, which was a shame. Had people staying with me on Monday night and graduation ceremonies yesterday, so didn't really catch up till last night, when I fell asleep in the bath at 10.00, and had to drag myself out to go to bed once the water had gone cold. Yuk!

See you all again soon. I am at work now, but have just emerged from a 3.5 hour meeting, so am recovering with a bit of MN!

ciao Ellbell! I'm glad the conference went well... I do the same, I always have a bath at night (when everyone's asleep and a copy of the guardian magazine) and risk to drawn because I tend to fall asleep.
Majorly worried at the mo. I think dh has just resigned

does that mean you are jobless? selling the house? moving to italy following your dream?

I like Cornelius Caramell.
Well, dh and I have been talking for a while, sort of deciding that going back to Italy would be the best for our family. The idea was to wait until he was offered a proper job at a University, which, lets face it, will probably never happen. But he's now received a big research grant + another bursary at an Italian University, I believe. And today he's told the head of school that he'll work until xmas. I'm not sure I'm entirely happy, as he is underestimating the cost of living in Italy. I hate change and I am scared.

I hate change too....dh is moving to the States for work for 8 weeks, i am really depressed about it.
franca did you know he was going to resign?

Well, I thought we hadn't talked this through thouroughly. One part of me thinks it's going to be allright, the other is full of doubts. Here, we are leading a quite "sheltered" life (if not slightly boring). Dh reckons that he will not be able to find a permanent job in Italy if he is not actually there. I also feel guilty, I think he's going to hate the mondo universitario italiano.
med, are you going to be allright? Is anyone coming to give you a hand while he is away? Gosh, 8 weeks sounds like a long time

OMG Franca, that's a bit all rolled into one, isn't it?

How long is the research grant for in Italy? And where is it? Is it a place where he has contacts? I do know people who've got jobs in Italy despite working in the UK, but it's difficult and it has tended to be people who already have a barone looking out for them over there. But obviously I only know about people working in italianistica.

You have said piu' volte that you'd like to be back in Italy, you know... But I can understand the uncertainty and the fear of the uncertainty.