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[Rosa]

Ciao - Everybody Welcome.

Brangelina you need to move to Milan!! they do storytelling for children in m,ore than one bookshop now, there are spettacoli teatrali at least every weekend for 18 months + kids. And I heard that a friend takes her 6 months old to music sessions . things are changing!

ds discovered coppa del nonno today

I know I need to move back to Milan, I just need to be able to afford it. I met another mum at nursery yesterday who's also milanese (lived in Corso Genova too, small world) and has been in Monza for 3 years and hasn't made one friend as they're all too cliquey. So it's not just me and because I'm straniera. Anyway, we've arranged a playdate for a day when I'm working from home. Oh dear, I'm going to have to tidy up my messy house.

Rosa, I saw the price for the consular birth certificate which is why I decided to do without. Also, because we're not married both DP and I would have had to do separate declarations which are 100 euros a pop IIRC, on top of the horrendous price for the birth certificate. Luckily for her passport she only needs my details, but still it's 118 euros now and the photo business has suddenly become complicated. Howcome you can apply for an Italian passport? Have you got dual nationality?

Lol Pippi and Italian passport control. I once got asked why my DD was speaking to me in English if she was an Italian citizen! Sometimes I wonder about the people they get for these jobs...

last time I went (pregnant with DD and lots of suitcases) I put DD to sit on the window cill (sp) - internal with window closed - while waiting for the suitcases to arrive (PG airport is smaller than monza's bus stop and all 3 seats taken). grumpy old policeman came out of his guardiola to tell me off as she was ruining the dying plant! DD was not touching it . after 2 minutes other policeman winked and gave me a chair and said 'qualcuno e' un po' nervosetto oggi!'. bless.

bran have you got an english accent when you speak italian?

I have an accent, but I don't know if it's specifically an English accent. I often get asked where I'm from, then when I say England they reply ah si, si sente . If it was so obvious why did you ask me? I think if people know I'm English then they hear the accent, if they don't then I'm only vaguely straniera and sometimes it takes a while for them to realise I have a foreign accent. A lot of people think I'm French, which is strange because I don't have that dodgy "r".

I was once in Ferrara and this guy asked me where I was from, so I said Milano, to which he replied, ah si, si sente....

NO sorry meant when I get my new Uk passport I am brit through and through . It is complicated whatever you do and costly ! Lovely day today so am about to go and get final few things as dh has announced that he is busy Sat am / pm. Mon am / pm so how I am supposed to get all final things and pack and leave this house half decent is a good question. DH needs a swimming costume am thinking I should risk looking when we get there . Or he can wear his pants .
Catch up later guys

rosa where exactly are you going in the canaries?

ithink he can wear his pants rosa
lovely day here as well. 13 degrees! today the messo comunale came and we passed! also took the dc for their epatite b immunization. we took buses, tubes atc. I now have a stiff neck

Rosa buy him something very skimpy.
Feeling up and down all the time, yesterday cried lots, worrying that i will not be able to cope,etc. Don't remember feeling so upside down with ds' pregnancy. Today I haven;t cried, yet!
Didn't watch the Jamie Oliver thingy, might watch Gordon's cooking marathon...and mumsnet a bit!

Ciao tutti! I am a newie living in Rome, I met Brangelina and Pippi on a thread I started re bilingualism today and was pointed in this direction. So have come to say hello

Hi Gio welcome to Little Italy so how long have you been in Rome are you from there and how old are your dc??? Like to be nosy !! I live in Venice and have 1 dd nearly 2 !

Ok so am off to get black skimpy thong for Dh to wear in Canaries ...We are going to Gran Canaria , Maspalomas on Tues that if no bugs get us all first out of 60 kids in nipotinas asilo there are 15 about teh right ratio child to teacher !!!!!
Have a good day tutte

Hi Rosa, have been in Rome on and off for 10 years, moved here permanently 1.5 years ago. I'm from the UK but DP is from Rome. Got 1 DS, 15 mth old. I'm v nosey as well , are you from Venice? V jealous re Canaries, although sun out in Rome today after a week of rain (how dare it!.Good luck re avoiding the bugs, ds had fever all week, been v miserable. Seems to be everywhere at moment

Hi Gio welcome. We have just moved back to Milan after 8 yrs un Exeter (more for dh: he's lived in England since 1994). We have 2 dc, a ds of 5.5 and a dd of 3.5. I'm now starting to look for ways to maintin their English...
It was lovely here today, sunne and warm!

There are bugs round and the febbre one seems to hang on and on . So far so good but daren't speak too soon. I am English married to a Venetian been here for years! Never been to the Canaries always been long haul but decided couldn't face the flight and jet lag with the little one so we are staying closer to home.
Franca any reactions to the injections??
Its been afunny day here grey and then the fog came up over the lagoon round 5 ish . DH out with his mates so I guess I must do the washing up !!

gio71 well done for coming here! hopefully you'll have a laugh and we'll be of some help.

hothell how are you today? hope you're better. it wasn't too bad fopr me as I was very panicky and all over the place with DD1 as she was not expected to 'exist' so soon IYSWIM. I am sorry you feel this c**p but that makes me also more relaxed re my own mood swings. you will cope brilliantly, DS will love his little b/s and you and me will meet up in Coram fields and moan and moan about our DH/DP?

I've seen ellbell in another thread, do you know if she's okay?

Rosa needs a little break . Am packing and havining to ron all DH stuff before it goes in the case as he has just shoved his summer stuff away and its in a state! He went shopping yesterday came back with a lovely jacket and said they had some nice ones for you as well in saldo fino a Friday SO why diddn't you buy me one - I have been looking for a waterproof lined jacket for ages ...In caso che ho spagliato i colori ..He then went on to describe the one he WOULD have bought - We have been together over 10 yrs and I had hoped he would have managed it . But no !!! Oh well ladies back to the ironing and packing .
Gio how is your ds any better now?
Hot how are things going - Still tired ? . Pippi you sound positive !

Morning all, thanks for the welcome. Reading papers online and trying to work out how long will leave dp to sleep(rolled in at 2.30 after night out), we're meant to be going to the coast for lunch today so am starting to resent him!
Got DS's outfit for carnival yesterday, very cute cowboy costume. Is it too early to start dressing him up do you reckon? I saw a couple of Princesses dressed up when out shopping yesterday. DP reckons too early and helpfully pointed out ds isn't a doll but he looks so cute in it...

Rosa, ds loads better now thanks although if he doesnt stop trying to stuff his hand in the dvd player he won't be for long! Perhaps I should go and stop him and get off MN for a bit? Good luck with your packing.

go for it gio. I wish we had carnevale here. i dresses DD as a pumpkin when she was about the same age for halloween.
and they ARE our dolls !!!

off to cook some roast chicken.

franca? hothell? where are ya?

ciao I'm here, had a hectic weekend. wise words pippi
hothell how are you feeling?
I'm now looking forward to dh coming back, he should be here in a week time. My parents are lovely and they are helping me a lot, but I'm starting to feel claustrophobic. I think we'll move to the new flat on wednesday.

I was going to ask when he was coming back. any offers yet?

no offers ....

oh FGS!!! are people blind???? or maybe your taste is too good...

are you happy to have moved back? can you see yourself (and fam) there better than in the uk? I bet your mum and dad are happy, my mum would give her life...