MN Little Italy 7

[francagoestohollywood]

Ciao, hello, welcome!

Please do, if he is Milan. I have this company, with more than one plumber, they have worked here already, but are too busy just now and a leaking tap is not an emergency. Anyway, it is working now. Cross your fingers.

OK, I'll ask DP when he gets back in. I can only remember his name - Arturo - DP has all the other details. I think he's in Milan, all his other jobs were there.

Shouldn't your landlord be dealing with this though? are you renting through an agency?

The landlord is useless

Just got back from the bar after a lvely saturday night drink. Feeling very relaxed.

I definately want a girly beagle

see cant even spell anymore.

beagles are lovely

I know, such lvely natures and so naughty

hangover hc?????

pippi. how's your dh?

I was coming on to ask the same question as Franca -how is your dh pippi ?
DD just started holding food in her mouth and not swallowing FGS - All because I gave her vege soup with stelline pasta and not the farfalline ones anyway gave up after a while ( no energy to argue) and she ate a whole banana and a pot of fruit !!!
HC glad you had a good night - dam good job no Lidl in Vce have to go to the mainland I am after a chocolate fix every day !! My spare tyre Brang is the size of a tractor wheel and if anybody else says ma ti vedo tanto bene I will scream .- I have black rings under eyes am pale and I dress in what I can get into thank god its winter and I can hide under a coat !!
Franca good luck with the tap if in doubt I would turn all the taps off !!!

so so girls. thanks for your concerns. he's been at home all weekend just enjoying his family before having to go in tomorrow morning. hopefully they will decide on an op soon.

rosa I used to get the same when you can tell that it's not really meant... I knew I was fat and tired and a mess. still I suppose the intentions are good.

I've decided to start a postgraduate teacher training course to teach at nuirsery and primary schools. Will apply by the 1st of dec for next year. already emailed ex uni tutor for reference. will see. I am very excited at the prospect of studying again and maybe have a job that lets me have a life around the kids. will see.

hothell duncan is on telly... how how how!!!!???

pippi,have you tried volunteering for a few ams a week in a school? i was thinking of doing the p teaching course, a few months of volunteering made me realise that it wasnt' for me, basically i would always shout at the kids if i were a teacher. Also speaking to some teachers, i realise that you don't finish early when the kids finish, lots of post school work, work to take home, and holidays taken up by work too. Maybe you already know this, but wanted to let you know. Oddio, sembro molto negativa, what i want to say is that work in a school suits a really particular type of person, don't know you well enough to know if you are one.
i watched outnumbered last night on tape, do you watch it? god, my partner is like the dad.
lol at poor Magda in the Verdone movie, it's meeeeeeee on a bad day!

Pippi, it sounds really exciting!! I also recommend to find somewhere you can volunteer (like your dd's nursery), and yes teaching at primary involves more after school hrs, but I def think it is a brilliant thing to do. Plus going back to study is the only activity that appeals to me!
I'm considering a social worker degree... but again one course is taught at Bicocca (far away- incasinato) and another at Cattolica (very nr, but it is cattolica and it is expensive being private). Still going to study for the midwifery course, I think.
Being very sad and worried as my sil is being mobbed at her workplace, which also makes me less eager of looking for a job

Meaning studying to do the entry exam for the midwifery degree.

Rosa, today -on my way to supermarket - I was thinking what a shame rosa lives so far away, it'd be lovely seeing her again!

pippi, god i sounded very negative, didn't mean to. i think i found draining being with kids all day, and then seeing my own. my current plan (always have a different one)is to either to a masters in French lit (completely useless of course) or the postgradutate in librarianship, probably more useful and working in a library really appeals to me (the peace and quiet basically appeals to me, not having to see people, spending day in day out shuffling books, lol), the course doesn't sound very exciting though.
social work sounds interesting franca, how long is the course?

Hot, I looked into the librarianship postgrad thing when I was in the UK (plus there's lots of mnetters who work in libraries and can give you advise) but gave up because:
a) there was no course in Exeter so it'd have been a long distance course, and I wasn't keen
b) there are only a few libraries in Exeter, it didn't look an easy task to find a job!
c) there is lots of IT involved, it is not the romantic thing I was expecting (those beautiful schedari....)

The social worker degree is a 3 yrs course...

oh no no no negative at all. thanks very much for sound advice. actually you are so very right and in my excitement I forgot that a couple of years ago I wasn;t that keen on kids and maybe I still am not, unless they are mine of course - and even then...

anyway I will def speak to a nursery and do some volunteering. Not sure about primary school, def NOT secondary.

thought about librarianship too but like franca said def not the romantic idea I thought. also very poorly paid IMO (not that I am planning to get a high flyer job). Other choice, and the most interesting was the MA in European culture... but it's so totally useless (except for my pleasure) that I feel a bit guilty when dh all day only does things he does not care about (i.e. work).

so I don't know.

update on DH: went in this morning. will have to stay in with a drain on his lung again. doctor said he'll probably will have to stay in till the op which could be in two weeks time . but she seems to think that staying in is the quickest way to get an op. which makes sense although two weeks in hospital sounds quite dreadful to me. poverino.

so my trip to my dad's gone (see ya rosa my dear , soon hopefully!). and I've got this chance of experiencing what life as a single mum entails (mind you still with dh's salary so not quite the same I guess but YKWIM).

oh well...

Oh dear oh dear Pippi . So sorry to hear about your dh, 2 weeks in hospital are def crappola. And two weeks on your own !!! It is going to be all right, I'm sure .

Where do you think you are going to study? Long distance (like OU courses) or are you going to frequentare? There must be a gazillion interesting courses out there ( at living in London)
Yesterday I was reading an article on Io donna (the corriere della sera) of two centers at 2 different hospitals in Milan that help pregnant women from abroad, some of them without regular documents, etc. And I thought what a great job that would be, and the ginecologa responsible of one center sounded so great.

Have you got any good friend nearby who can lend a hand, Pippi??

whenever dp goes away i think "oh bollocks i am stuck doing everything with the kids", my second thought is that "wow, dont' have to clean up after him, cook meals", as ds is happy with broccoli and a can of sardines, and i get to have big bed to myself and mumsnet to myself, yipppee!
2 weeks in hospital does seem like a lot though, take care when you go iwth the kids about washing hands, etc, am a bit fixated about hospital infections. Is it 2 weeks and then he has the op? How long after the op?

Oh, dear, i am useless with IT, i just like books, and love the idea of wearing glasses and taking them off to reveal myself as a vamp (barbie emoticon. Will look into it. The salary is deffo crapola, but not so much less than the teacher's one, and no risk of breakdown there. Do you think pippi you can set boundaries iwth the kids? I felt so sad about a little girl in the class i volunteered in, because she seemed so sad, and ended up thinking about her when at home, and then felt sad for a little boy whose dad had died, etc etc, basically got too involved and was only a volunteer. That'[s why cannot work with people who are not well,kids, etc, as i would carry the sadness home.

i think teaching, social work, work with people in difficulties require people who cheerful by nature. The nicest thing would be an ma in lit, but i do have to work eventually!!!

My Mum was a primary school teacher. She loved it but she would find the 1 or 2 disruptive pupils she got every year very draining, and would come home and rant about them! Also the administrative stuff, which has probably got worse since her day.

I think you're right about needing to be cheerful for these kinds of jobs, and also have the ability to switch off at the end of the day and not get too emotionally involved. Don't think I could do it myself.

my sister is in her final year training to be a primary school teacher. She absolutely loves it, she gets loads out of the kids when she does her placements and always gets loads of presents at Christmas and when she finishes a placement plus cards telling her how much they love her! Bless! Always sounds appealing when I hear that adoration on a daily basis but then I remind myself I can be a miserable sod sometimes whereas my sister is a bouncy, actress type who can turn it on in front of people.
You've got some interesting ideas there Franca, what would you need qualification wise to help out at the centres for foreigners?
poor you and dh Pippi! 2 weeks
hot I have always thought librarian would be fab job. One of my dream jobs would be owner of some little, oldie worldie bookshop for stranieri here in Rome, just sitting there reading books, the occasional chat and the peace and quiet. Bloody Amazon has put an end to that dream, cant imagine second hand/foreign bookshops make very much these days.

we all seem to have the dream of the lovely old bookshop with maybe a small cafe etc etc... ahhh

franca I'd do it at middlesex uni which luckily is 3 minutes from my house. I like the idea of frequentare... (dh already jelous of all the other young male students... as if!!). good point about being a sad sod some days (ME!!!). lots of food for thought. anyway the application should be in by next week but course won't start till sept so lots of time to think about it. It'll be this. It's free plus 5000pounds bursary which won't go amiss. and I guess it's still some kind of qualification afterall.

great about the midwifery course, for some reasons I though you were not going to do it anymore.

re dh will know better today. yes I've got quite a lot of help thanks god and like hot says in a perverse way the veneings are going to be all mine and quite relaxing... but ask me in a few days.