MN Little Italy 7

[francagoestohollywood]

Ciao, hello, welcome!

although we call her rottermeier she's actually called rotteNmeier... which is just sooo apt!!

ohh, heidi.....
glad everything went well...
marylebone is great for shopping, great charity shops too, and there is a patisserie valerie!
i loved heidi, i must say that clara always got on my nerves, not sure why..
baby is in her cot but screaming, tiredness i think.

is she called rottenmeier? how funny..
baby stopped screaming, hope she is going to sleep till her dream feed, i so much want some time to myself (selfish mum emoticon)

clara was a PITA really. We've got all episodes here and even now I cannot watch the ones she's in Francoforte as too sad. I only like the one when she's alla baita and without sickly moany clara .....

hot, already spotted the Cancer research charity shop today and got myself two lovely dresses (also went to hairdresser while waiting and cut my hair shortish - a very altruistic act: dh was very pleased !) apparently there's a barnardo's but didn't see it. tomorrow maybe.

maybe this is not very PC...

i so much want some time to myself (selfish mum emoticon) me too. after we came home I made the point of playing with dds for half an hour as I didn't see them all day. then I was so desperate for me time...luckily they obliged.

lol at clara PITA, it really sums her up!

and there is also an interesting museum The Wallace Collection at the bottom of the high street...i am almost wishing my dh was hospitalised in that hospital a spot of shopping wouldn't go amiss.

baby screamed again, but has now stopped, i keep going in to tell her she is tired and she should sleep, last time i went in and told her i want to read the Saviano book, weirdily enough she stopped, looked at me as if she knew what i was talking about (with that wise look babies have) and fell asleep. Poverina, it's all i can say with a mamma like me. Are you reading anything interesting?

you know i still piss myself laughing at the name of that street near oxford street you told us about, Stronza Street, just writing it again makes me laugh out loud.lol

Pippi glad to hear everything went well .

Last year, when we met in London. I spent Sunday morning in Merylebone high street... the bookshop is beautiful and I drooled after the conran shop. Must say that the same furniture is 30% cheaper here.

Can I boast for 1 sec??? Went to parents evening and couldn't believe my ears when the teachers said they were contentissime of ds ! He is imprevedibile

I actually liked clara

boast away my dear. I am of the opinion we should boast as much as possible now... because when the teens hit we'll be looking for shouldres to cry on. well done to him !

Oh so you all knew about marylebone street . where have I been for the past 12 years? not been to the conran shop yet. I've purposefully left it for tomorrow .
tbh hothell dh could not have been sent in a better location... !

I'm such a scoundrel of a mother too.
what am I reading? normally I never read more than one book at once but at the moment I've got a few going (which means I haven't turned a page for days). Commuting to and fro from hosp will change that though [guiltily happy emoticon].
I'm reading: mastratella's 'mariti', the obama book about his father, doris lessing 'the golden notebook', just bought in the wonderful bookshop a mini paul auster 'auggie wren's christmas story' and the new biography of de beauvoire and sartrefrom the oxfam bookshop (which I am sure will destroy the mythical image I've created of her but nevermind). I've finished '84 charing cross road' and another cute one called smthing like 'perfect women'.

don't I sound cultured? well I am not. all those book have been opened once and left to decorate my house.

new bio of sartre and de beauvoir? i devoured the series of her autobios and the bio by Deidre Bair which glossed over the dirt. i must say i was really shocked when i read an article saying how promiscuous they were, and that Simone found women for him and sometimes they shared lovers. And i am not a puritan. Non so se lei era succube di lui.
It's good to have lots of books on the go, on my comodino i have beside the Saviano, one by Piperno and una raccolta di saggi della Ginzburg. How does Saviano know so much about his subject - do you know what his background was? It sounds that he was brought up by his mum, and knows about the camora life having seen it very close, but why did he not end up getting involved with it. Was his background sort of borghese benestante? Anyone know?

What is this bookshop you are talking about? The Oxfam only books shop?
Boast Franca, agree with pippi, boasting is fine, i know you are not the competitive obsessive mum.

Isnt' the Golden book really heavy going, i remember borrowing it and getting bored once it became philosophical, or maybe i am confusing it iwth something else.

not sure. i don't know why but i didn't imagine him borghese bennestante. I think he knew a lot just by being there. then he reserched it as well. friend told me he has upset some, most, of the people he knew and some of those that are on the book because they fely betrayed and used. boh.

re: de beauvoire's books. oh I devoured all her autobiographical books too (read the letter between her and algren?). first at 18 then 23 and then again a few years ago. For a while she really was my heroine and really strived to be as independent as she sounded. went to see her lapide in paris etc then children came... and then maybe she wasn;t so independent, who knows. anyway the super dirty biography is called 'a dangerous liaison' by Carole Seymour-Jones. I think I'll be shocked too. It feels a bit like a betrayal to read it...like a highbrows Heat!

'tis 'tis... that's why it has been sitting on my bedside table for a while now. Ah, on the spare room's bedside table I've got Sense and Sensibility which shamefully I've never read. have you?

yes Oxfam just books and record. Mind you books are not as cheap as in normal charity shop, about half of the cover price.

oh how nice it would be to get another degree in literature... [pippi dreams away]...

lol at Heat!
yes, it sounds gossipy and nasty, you will have to tell me more.

wasn't algren quite pissed off with her at the end because he had also felt used?

i suppose things were not so black and white, and she had moments of being succube/and moments of independence. I loved when she wrote about trekking in rural france, walking for days and days...
i do wish she had had kids, she would have had interesting things to say, maybe she would have been a terrible mother though...she adopted her daughter when she was already an adult..i wonder if there is some dirt there...

yes i have read sense and sensibility years ago, set in Lyme Regis. very good, not as good as Emma and Pride and Prejudice - have bought Mansfield Park which i never read. very cheap books at the oxfam in hackney by the way.

ah yes, it's\bloody pride and prejudice I should have got, or is it the one I've got... hmm confused.

yes yes those bits where my favourite too. all alone in peace, walking and reading. do you remember that bit when she said she would have a cup of hot chockolate for dinner? I used to remember how could she eat so little, now I know. I also loved the fact that she lived in a hotel and went on holiday with 24million books. when I came to london that's excatly what I tried to recreate. obviously in a much less glamorous and cultured way. it was more the classic damp freezing dark flat in edgware rd or the one infested by moths in tooting or the share with 5 others in manor house while working in restaurant and going home on a night bus kind of think... still, the power of immagination!!

Hello everyone. What a lot has gone on since I last checked in! I've been insanely busy with work then I came down with something this weekend and am left with a tosse grassa and no voice. Oh joy, I have a client meeting tomorrow and will have to bust a gut to be heard. Oh well, just one more week then things should calm down, only I still have to start my Christmas shopping

Brilliant about your DS Franca, so there was nothing to worry about after all. Does he still really like his school?

Get well vibes to Pippi's DH - is he really staying in for a whole 2 weeks? What did your SIL do then? I want to know. Mine now wants to be my best friend.

Gomorra - I bought this for DP as a birthday present but it was really for me. He hasn't touched it yet but my patience is running out and I might give it a go. Now you've got me all intrigued about the Angelina Jolie dress.

Rosa - you don't have poor milk, only poor confidence. Poor milk doesn't exist. I was exactly the same and DD was also a snacker, so I feel for you. Can you not get to a gruppo di allattamento at your local consultorio (not now, obv!) and sit down and talk it through with them? Just getting it off your chest will help (no pun intended). I even burst into tears at one but felt much better and much more relaxed afterwards. In my case I had to resign myself that it was normal to have DD constantly feeding, as was the frenzied cluster feeding in the evening that drove me up the wall. Mind you, I also only had one child to care for. Buon coraggio and positive squirty boob vibes.

best secondhand bookshop is the one in church strees stoke newington. it's small but has got only good books, not too dear either. have you been?

ciao brang! yes the angelina jolie dress is and sad. go on start it, you wont be able to put it down.

think dh will have to stay in a week, if everything's well plus one at home. will see. thanks for wibes though, to you all. it's all right for me to joke to take some stress out but when I first saw him afte op I had to fight back the tears .

SIL bitch from hell. Mil told me she hates me and I cannot even be nominated because she goes ballistic. she was upset that mil came two day to help me with dds while I was going to hospital because I am not working and I should do on my own and take dds with me. Mil sais she's jelous and envious (of what is beyond me - her brother maybe? boh.) and a spoilt and unhappy brat. dh is fuming about her general behaviour. she has not see dds since dd2 was born. like dh said, her loss. OH please I hope she won't ever want to be my BF... I am not a good actress. why does yours want to be your BF now? what does she want?
RANT OVER.

can you lot let me finish tidyingup the house?

must got to bed now (with good book and dd1 in daddy's side). thanks for great chat. speak to you tomorrow.

ah re feeding rosa. If I remember correctly for the first few good weeks I think both my dd2 fed quite often. I think it becomes hard and unmanageble when/if they feed every two hours at 5 or 6 months. now I'll play by ear to be honest. one think I did 'wrong' with dd1 is to let her feed from one breast only and then stop. I think it wasn't enough and she'd ask for more soon after. with dd2 I let her empty them till she was piena come un uovo. that helped.