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[Rosa]

Ciao , Hello , Welcome .

I'm waiting a bit to see if prices go down. When I went at Xmas I booked 3 wks after I'd originally checked prices and it was something like 50 or 70 euros less each.

Can your DH not fly to Pisa or Ciampino then get a train? Is there a direct train from Pisa to PG? A friend recently booked for Pisa end of Aug and it was something like 35 euros each way. Rome was 50 euros I think but I might be getting confused there.

we are in betnal green..

does g's villa have a huge gate? can it be climbed over? hard with my bump...

where did franca go on holiday, i forget.....

are you going to calabria pippi this year? do you go to tropea?

28 degrees in london today, i might have to shower lots, as i am sweltering already and it's not even 10am..

Ah I remember Bethnal Green, went to the police station there once to retrieve my bag after some low-life brats kids stole it out of the college changing rooms. IIRC there's a pub opposite, no? Or maybe not, there were lots of pubs in my college days (I had an alcoholic boyfriend) and they all tend to blur into each other.

If it's the gate I saw, then it is very big and spiky on top, so no, not ideal with a bump. The lakeside approach is better and more comfortable. Maybe you and Gio can both break down together, then as a pg lady with big bump you can faint into his arms.

Franca I think is in Sicilia.

Only 28 degrees??? You lightweight, here it was 34° and afoso yesterday. Luckily it rained this morning so we have some respite.

Yeah 28°, I dream of 28°

We had some rain too yesterday, so ok so far today.

DD starting her school holidays today, so no more mad dash in the morning

ooh Hothell, like Branges idea re trapping George, sounds like a plan
why would he want his latest willowy waitress when he can have a small dumpy mother of 1 from Manchester ???
28 degrees by the way!!!
It is still showing 34 degrees on the thermometres on display round the city here at 9pm!!! DS covered in heat rash -any suggestions?
Skived off yesterday and took ds to the beach for the day, was lovely. Want to be rich Italian with beach house for 3 mths of the year have decided.

My DS has heat rash too, despite only wearing a nappy most of the time. LOL Gio, I was just telling my post-natal pals about "proper" Italians buggering off to the beach for the summer.

I can't complain really though, it's not too bad here in the summer, only the afternoons get really hot, and we have 1 of those glorified paddling pool mountable swimming pool things (when we finally get it put up...)

ello ello all - back from the hills and we had a mother of a storm this morning so Venice is much better ..But dh was not in agreement as he got SOAKED coming to 20 week scan - I went ahead with brolly and not knowing his bus pass so he walked!
Scan all ok madam refused to cooperate so had to have internal to get brain measurements!
Gio try Aveeno bran stuff in the bath ( watch out it leaves the bath very very slippery)
Mountains was FAB- apart from 1st 24hrs with terrible d+V ( me!)DD had a ball and I only wanted to strangle MIL about 3 times a day so not bad. Like at mealtimes ( faccio io), Like in the car ( sto io dietro)and quando she said - SIL la fa diversa (AHHHH). ANyway dd now being weaned off salt - nonna did the cooking . But overall it was lovely- people nice, area great and so geared up for kids, good playgrounds on ever angle. DD did this
3 times with dh and adored it !www.funbob.info/
As for the teatowel - gave it to dh to polish the car with

Welcome back Rosa, and good news on the scan. We have been very quiet without you and Franca

Gosh, that was a short holiday. Probably just as well with your MIL there....

Lol at your DD2 doing a moony (I presume that's why they couldn't measure the head?).

I was thinking of you this morning as there was a piece in Altro Consumo about pushchairs. Apparently the Graco Quattro Tour Deluxe came out best, but boy, is it ugly. I was a bit about the rating for ease of use on public transport - the Loola came out as ottimo yet it used to give me a hernia trying to hoist it up on buses. They must have done that test in Germany where all the trams are wheelchair accessible or something, I couldn't even get mine through the door half the time. Mind you, being a shallow milanese I bought my pushchair because it looked good, so I was willing to suffer the impracticalities.

Don't get the Cam Combi or the Prenatal So as the brakes keep getting caught on steps apparently. Voilà, commercial advice over

ahh but the long holiday is yet to come ..off to the Uk on Sat . This was a get me out of this horrible hot , humid , stone city or I will go nuts holiday !
Thanks for the buggy info. prenatal I have come to conclude are generally crap . SIL has the lightweight one and her ds ( ok so he is 3 and like 20kg) but when he falls asleep he slides down in it . The Loola is far too heavy for Venice and bridges. Will look at the graco as they are cheaper in the UK .
Oggi is SIL son 3rd birthday we were going to them for pizza and a mini festa but as the 2 children have been fighting all morning SIl has cancelled it. these kids have been playing on the beach for the last 10 days ( when sunny) so a morning at home due to rain one wonders why they are restless (this pm is fine) .....some times I am just so and

yep, brange, lots of pubs around here, posh and dodgy ones!

welcome back Rosa, send rain vibes towards Rome for me, I want a mother of all storms here. Not a breath of air. Went to eat out last night and none of us enjoyed it, too hot and we were all too irritable. Only thing I enjoyed was going to get watermelon afterwards which always
cools me down. Will look for that stuff for bath Rosa, I have always used amido di riso for him but doesnt seem to touch it. Anyone know of a cream to help relieve it, poor kid was awake half the night scratching? lol at your MIL, arent PIL great My FIL has started his annual criticism of my summer style of parenting (we have set criticisms for each season ) namely that when he was a boy he was taken out of Rome by his mother for 15 giorni al mare, 1 mese in montagna, e poi 15 giorni al mare!! Well lucky him but as I pointed out yesterday when I win the lottery I too will do the same! Until then I am not a lady of leisure as his Mother was and I have to work and pay bills and unfortunately cant afford 2-3 mths of lounging on beaches and frolicking in the mountains!! So then got dire predictions about how ds will have colds all winter as hant built up resistance by having a month of iodine from the sea!!!!!!!!!!! I do wonder how I managed to grow up whole and healthy in Manchester

Gio I know just what you mean but back then you could go to the shops get all your shopping for a week and have an ice cream and take the bus home all for less than lire1000 !
Think we ended up paying for MIL stay ...she says she has to still do conti with him but vediamo.
Amido di riso is good for sweaty babies but it tends to dry the skin out or so I was told. This Aveeno stuff comes in packets and the bath goes a milky colour. It worked on dd when she got heat rash at about 5mths. Lots of tiny red spots. When I was in the Uk and she still had a few puntini they gave me calamine lotion .. I don't think you can get it here. WHat about a mild anithistamine cream for him ? Calendula is another cream I was given for insect bites, rashes in general but it is pretty mild.
I have just broken another veneziano like those pull up shutter things bugg*r...We have about 3 left in the whole flat now and can't find anybody to mend them!

at your FIL Gio. Luckily we don't see the ILs at all, so we no longer get disapproving looks about the shocking aspects of my parenting, ie feeding my child healthy (and meat free) food and not coke and sweets all day, making her brush her teeth and not blowing smoke in her face, like MIL did with her 2. Oddly enough they seem to understand that I can't do the mese in montagna and 2 al mare like they did, but it's the other stuff that gets them. I used to get lots of teeth sucking before pronunciation of the word "vegetarian" and "roba sana".

Gio, I got given this lotion for DD when she had chickenpox, it's tannin based so relatively chemical free. On this basis I also used to bathe her in green tea and that seemed to soothe her. Otherwise, a friend of mine swears by this stuff though I have never used it myself so can't vouch for it.

stock up on calamine lotion and antihistamine medicine when you come to uk, also put oats in a stocking and put stocking in bath water, very soothing for itchy skin...temperature coming down here, hurray...i love english summers...

Eurax is also supposed to be very good and is creamier than calamine. Don't know what's in it though. My sis uses it for her 2.

and falling temperatures in the UK. At least here it rains in the night so early mornings are a bit cooler.

welcome back rosa. LOL at 'and quando she said - SIL la fa diversa (AHHHH' !!!! please explain it to mt, I want to laugh a bit more.

Rosa, it's only right you know that you pay for your MIL after she cooked for you and gave you all those valuable insights into your SIL's way of doing things

agree with sputnik, rosa, i think you should be grateful to your mil, hey! why don't you invite her to the uk, she will have lots of interesting things to say about english ways of doing things, haha!

Lol! Yes do that Rosa, and encourage her to write a blog about her impressions then give us the link. Is she very veneta? Does she speak in dialect a lot? Or are the Venetians totally removed from veneti?

You guys have it in for me..MInd you she is coming round today to babysit . I have doc this pm to give me the ok to go and check esame etc Dh is working this is a real first. So I have been hiding the ironing and shoving things in cupboards.( she will open them anyway !)
I took her to the Uk once for 5 days and if I say Pane con tutto she even had her mocha with her.
I think what got to her most of all was dd eating that was so different to SIL- I fed dd real food hardly any cr*p, and if she got down from the table she diddn't eat I refuse to run round the room with a fork. That got to her.Also putting her toys away ( ma dai e piccola ).
I know she has told SIL about my bad mother skills.Oh well never mind going to the Uk where my mother gets dd dirty before she has left the garden

Oh and as for the dialect oh yes she is a think venetian ( are they part of Italy ????) DD can say her 'z' pretty well..lesson in dialect just add eo ( ayho) after everything throw in a few z and you have it sussed.

Oh Rosa I'm PMSL here !!!!

please when we do the meet up we must must meet MIL !!!!

please tell me an example of the z business. I can hear the eo in my head very well - uncle from treviso.

she sounds effing unbearable