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[francagoestohollywood]

Welcome everyone

ciao!!!! have been out with a friend to a christmassy evening. Pippi how is it going?
Rosa I used to goto Duna Verde as a child, it was fab in the early 70s! (the amazing thing is that we were a group of young children free to cycle around, fare i bagni in piscina... I have no recollection of my parents whatsoever )

Ooh, can you register on the UK one as well? Or do you have to deregister from the Italian one first? I know it's a pain when you get blocked from bidding because it's UK only. When I want to bid on something that's UK only I usually just contact the seller if there's time to say that I want it sent to a UK address and can they unblock me (then I completely forget to bid). DP's the ebay fiend, he buys ugly English paintings cheaply and resells them in Italy as "quadri inglesi del 900" and people buy them for lots of money! Only one guy complained that a picture was horrible, he wrote back to say that it was a crostaceo I think he meant crosta, Italian wasn't his first language.

I once had to spend a whole summer at Lido delle Nazioni when I was a babysitter so am prejudiced against anywhere in that area.

Lido delle Nazioni is terribile! I still remember the pubblicita' on dodgy canali televisivi privati with the two ladies selling villette arredate there. Well Duna Verde was great in the Seventies, they were still building it and each group of "villette" shared a swimming pool. and there was a pizzeria. everything a child of 6 wanted: piscina, edicola con topolino, vialetti to go on bicycle and pizza.

Isn't it just?! DP's parents have a house there, he used to go there when he was a child too and liked it then, for the same reasons you mention. Plus he used to see the same friends every year. Now he's grown up he hates it just as much as me. We keep getting invited to stay in the summer but somehow manage not to find the time.

A friend of mine keeps trying to convince me to go to Lignano sabbie d'oro because he went there as a child ergo, now that I have a child I should take her there.

Whereabouts did you go in Tuscany and was it good for children? (I know you mentioned it in the old thread but I'm too lazy to do a search).

Whatever you do, do not go to Gatteo Mare near Rimini. Went in my 20s with a boyfriend because we fell in love iwth the name. Horrible, a newly built seaside town, bleah!
Do you think swimming in southern italy in April is a possibility?

went to Lido delle Nazioni when kids to see friends of the family and all I remember was loads of massive moschitoes and ants on the beach. not impressed. my mum was disgusted, we should have been there two weeks, we left after a few days and headed south.

update on the sleeping sit.: MIRACLE!!! SHE SLEPT!!!! ALL NIGHT AT AT FIRST ATTEMPT.
Tell you why I think it is. I went back to my usual 'half super-fun mum hlaf rottenmeir' mum. She tried all day to have her way and test me and I am afraid she had to go in 'time out' twice for other reasons. well come the bed time I stayed strict on the rules and on how many times one is allowed going for a poo etc. IMO she got the point and just went. she tried playing up once and off she was on the step. DH and I feel like miracolati. yuppie!!!!
and in re to some opinion we read somewhere else BTW hothell like you I don;t think for a minute that DD thinks she's not loved when she's in time out... she knows very well that what I don;t like is her behaviour.

Brangelina, we had a week near Pistoia on top of a mountain - nothing really that you'd say was for children - but DH and DS had a fab time and we did a different town everyday. Hired bikes in Lucca, the funicular in Montecatini, loads of cathedrals, Pisa etc. There was a pool and a playground at the campsite.
The second week was just north of Piombino (grim) near San Vincenzan (average). A quieter week which was lovely and near a beach. We did the aquapark and a bit of ancient history, and mooched round a few small towns, and again DS just loved the campsite.

The best holiday we've ever had. Problem is, our next one has a lot to live up to.

Sorry, typo on San Vincenza. No n. South of Grossetto.

Grosseto? I'm making it up as I go along. Just looked at a map. Nowhere near there.

I'll go away now.

peaches I am not sure that side is going to live up to tuscany I am afraid. But I might (and hope to) be proven wrong as I do not know it very very well.

go to Marche Peaches, you'll be pleasantly surprised, I can make a list of all the must see places and family oriented places on the sea if you like.
Brange we went to a fantastic agriturismo, perfect with children (swimming pool, nice walks, cats, horses) half an hour from volterra, I can email you the address if you want.

Pippi, great news!!!

well done pippi!

i agree pippi, i actually think they feel more loved when they have boundaries and they realize that they have to respect their parents' wishes. It must be very stressfull to have a weak parent who gives in all the time.

Today ds's TA told me that yesterday ds had a strop and said" I'm going to cut my willy" and took a pair of scissors ! Help! Freud anyone? Am I the madre castrante? oh bugger! dh says that it's just because boys his age are all thinking about willies poo and farts. He's never done anything like that before, never played with scissors in a dangerous way. gsdhsdgkjgfskjbhgfkjhfg

Oh Franca - Is it a craze in ds class ? What does Ds say about that ??
Pippi Brava Brava ...but did you wake up thinking whay hasn't she woken up ??
Brangelina - I re registered using a different e mail address and log in as was totally pis**d with E bay not letting me bid when like you I wanted to use a Uk address. SOme sellers were ok but others not so I re registered and have since won 2 items !!!

haven't spoken to ds yet, it happened yesterday and I talked to TA this morning. He was happy as ever yesterday, played with his friend (they talked a lot about BURPS) etc. I suppose he and his friends talk a lot about willies and bums . I was a bit shocked this morning, I todl a friend, she told me that her dd (3.5) the other day told her: if you tell me off I'm going top wee on you. so I don't know whether to read this accident as something silly a boy wouyld say and pretend to do or a freudian thing. I feel like crying.

last post was full of mistakes !

I would mention it to ds otherwise it will play on your mind and worry you more. It might be just another 'bravado' act and he doesn't mean it or he has heard another boy say it and he got attention so maybe he is trying it as well. I can remember my cousins going on and on about bottom burps as they used to call them until the discovered another name for them.

help please. what's the name in english of the carbord frame that goes inside the wooden frame? do you know what I mean?

cardboard

the present I bought for Dh is quite s**te really - it just arrived. so now I'm panicking to what else I can get him. I had a brillian idea, but I told him to get it for me (a painting) so now I am really stuffed.

Yes, I'll def talk to him...
Pippi, I don't knjw and can't come up for the Italian name either. but I do have a dizionario on hand, so I can look, if you tell me the exact italian name for it (smemorata emoticon)

Um, what cardboard frame inside the wooden frame of what?

Rosa, that is good news re ebay UK. Do you have to give your NI number instead of the codice fiscale? Did you use the same name? Sooo many questions.

Franca, yes please for the agriturismo address. Lol at the willy incident, there begins a fascination that will last a lifetime. The little boys I looked after were always "experimenting" with theirs and they were only 5 and 3. I used to get some odd looks from the nonne on the beach, like it was my fault. The 3yo once pointed to a huge salami in a shop window and said in a very loud voice "pistolino di papà". We were at a tram stop and all the women looked at me with envy. I had to tell them I was only the babysitter....

In 'italiano' e' passpartout (sp?), misa. non importa, ho pensato che lo compro la settimana prossima quando vado al west end. ups why in italian????
anyway did I tell you I got signed off for 2 months? yuppie. adesso tutta vita!!! [wnik]