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[Brangelina]

Aka le Patatine

OMG - how can you admit on MN you give pane e Nutella a colazione!?

yes, and I wasn't the only one!

wow! I'm truly

here

LOL franca, I agree though, it's like crack cocaine, veeeeeeery addictive

Hi welcome beforesunrise,can't believe how you were being savaged on that thread!! Lots of people on MN with lots of issues methinks. I only ever lurk on AIBU and am always in admiration of people brave enough to post on those threads as they always seem to attract such extreme reactions. Anyway stick with us, we are nice and talk about nutella and other such important things. Franca pane e nutella mmmmmmm.
I am English living in Rome with Italian dp and our 2 year old ds.
Very impressed with this general fitness theme happening ladies- Franca and pilates, Pippi swimming and Brange down the gym. I on the other hand push shopping on the pushchair up the hill to my house and there ends my exercise routine

Since then I give pane e nutella per merenda as well and we are all much happier for it ! and when i go back I bring buondi and other merendine. ahhh I feel much better for having said it !

in grumpy mood this morning.

so nice to meet you all! thanks for the warm welcome.

"that" thread really left me a bit upset. I didn't post in AIBU because I didn't want to generate a fight, but I realise I was being extremely naive. Granted, my english syntax is not perfect (good enough to work though, funny that), but I am quite shocked at the cavalier attitude to grammar and spelling that seems to be the norm here... also people really ganged up on me. OH well! domani e' un altro giorno!

pane e nutella, yes, my dd gets that sometimes too, but she is really not interested (she has a healthy attitude to food, i try to remind myself!), it's the same to her as porridge... I, otoh, could get it for colazione pranzo e cena!

Pippi, where do you live? can't believe our dds are the same age! mine are Feb06 and May08 babies, respectively. I live in NW London.

ok, got to get them ready to take dd1 to nursery- I can't believe that I am mumsnetting while they are both covered in breakfast and we are running late!

sunny just forget about it and avoid such discussions/threads etc. I almost left MN for this witch hunts,gang ups and righteousness. It is true there are plenty of nice people (like us ) but plenty to avoid.

I'm in N London. mine are july 05 and april 08. and I'm mumsnetting while one is eating cereals without milk and the little one is starving [bad mum emoticon].

another confession: I eat buisquits for breakfast!

latte e biscotti is the definitive breakfast. anything else just doesn't come close...

Hello sunrise!

I'm always getting into bother on AIBU threads! I shall go and look at yours in a mo'.

Nutella! I think you get away with it on MN because you're a furriner! (spent most of yesterday defending a poster who was being slaughtered because she gave her child some crisps in a restaurant to keep him quiet....)

We're about to do the iscrizione whatsit for elementare.....the school dd will go to (the nearest to the house- after 3 yrs of a pulmino for nursery out in the campagna) I'm quite happy with, but there are all kinds of behind the scenes nutjobbery going on- notes being passed to various teachers to get your child into her class etc. I am about to grossly offend a friend who has been harping on at me to "have a note passed" to her friend who teaches there, but who is near pension age, "molto acida" (and this is her friend talking!) "sul livello didattico e bravissima, but sul livello umano, non ci sta". Errr, think I'll pass on that one. Apparently the kids get good grades because they're terrified. I shock everybody by saying dd can get 5 meno for the whole of her school career and I don't give a toss. I want her to be happy....pah!

Off to find AIBU.

Morning

beforesunrise - as others have said MN can be so nasty sometimes. I was posting on a thread about Gaza & the rather serious humanitarian issues there and all of a sudden a gang descended on the thread & started being awful to one poster. I only post here & on my postnatal thread. My dd was born May08 too- and the May mums are known as the FMLs or Friendly May Ladies as most only post there having been shocked by some of the other crap on here. You're more than welcome to join us!

We are off to our Steiner Group dance in the forest now . Dd's still not that well but dr said she should be getting fresh air. How times change, if only my old colleagues could see me in wellies with dd in her sling praising the sun!

Hope you all have a good giornata.

I saw your posts on Gaza monkey, I was going to join in and post in agreement but in the end was scared off like the wimp I am by the reactions of some people and came running back to safety in Little Italy.
I ALWAYS have caffè latte e biscotti ogni mattina, which is probably one reason I am not thin , in fact off to have my second of day

Pippi, why are you grumpy?
I'm working this morning, and then I'm planing a trip to Muji before picking up the dc from school.

I must say that I get less and less self conscious/scared about posting on MN, I usually get in trouble when I defend the use of nurseries/childcare...

planning

Morning all...
I'm pretty close to an un-dead this morning, about 5 mins after falling asleep last night, woke up by DS's crying, as he'd been sick all over the bed, so had to change the whole bedding, wash the floor/bed, and make it again, had to use sofa duvet. DD got woken up and wouldn't go back to sleep, eventually, as we were all almost asleep, DS was sick again, another duvet, mattress protector etc, pjs.... 3 loads of washing to do this morning, on top of all the others I. DD hasn't slept all night, she's just been kicking blankets in bed with us and "singing", then filled her nappy (used a disposable as couldn't be asked going downstairs to get a clean one) so she got mess up to her armpits, so had to change her and eventually fell asleep feeding around 7am. Poor DP got up at 7 to finish fixing the tumble dryer before going to work and as soon as he left DS got up and came to wake DD up . so I have exploding head and so I've just made myself caffelatte with pane e nutella per consolazione

Ooh, lots of activity while I was reading through my Amazon pile....

Poor Sunflower. It is shite when one's sick, it must be much worse when you have 2.

Am not a fan of Nutella, it soean' do anything for me, although DP used to get through tons of the stuff, to the extent that most of our glasses are nutella ones. Shame on you Franca for buying merendine Kinder! Evil evil evil for pubblicità ingannevole! I must admit I had a phase of really liking Buondì once, but then ate too many in one sitting and now can't even look at them.

Welcome BS, I've just read your thread and fwiw I completely agree with you. I'm constantly and indignantly appalled at the level of spelling and grammar in the UK and am quite glad in some ways that DD is going to an Italian school. But then you have to remember that grammar is not taught in UK schools, you get "points" for being imaginative in essays but how you spell them appears to be unimportant nowadays. I used to teach French and Italian and always had masive difficulties teaching the Brits (unless linguists) as the concept of tense/infinitive/adjective/verb was beyond most.

Pippi, have you had any luck with your school appointment? I was a bit at that comment re parents possibily being paedophiles. Some people should shag more and worry less. Sorry if that was crude!

Can someone show me the thread? I can't find anything controversial! (or am I looking in wrong place!) I feel like being a pixie today...

It's in education Buch. I'll link it in a mo', just need to send off urgent email to supplier first.....

Bran, after about a year in UK I had to teach English grammar to my (English) friend who was teaching English to foreigners! I tried to teach DP "proper" Italian, but as soon as I mention subject/adjective, etc, well, I think we had one lesson! I was subjected to Italian grammar til I was 17 (ok, it was a liceo linguistico, well, thoretically modern languages though we had more latin lessons than any other language)

Bucharest - here's that thread

Lol at shagging more! Paeophiles going viewing schools?????? WTF?
off toemail you pippi..

Ugh at Latin lessons! I hated them with a vengeance.

I spent my early school years abroad and had to learn grammar as for most pupils English was a 2nd language. If we spelt or wrote some of the grammatical forms sometimes seen on MN we would have been held back a year. It's not the case in the UK sadly, people are getting to university unable to write simple sentences. I blame it on the polytechnics being turned into universities personally. You'd have never got that in my day, when polys (sp? polies?) were polys and unies were proper universities.

Yes, apparently people now have children so that they can visit schools to go and perv at other people's children. Didn't you know? Didn't you ask about paedophile parents at your DS's school? I'd give the head a ring if I were you.

are people who think in this way even slightly educated or what????? appalling and scary...

I'm not sure education comes into it. I think they're creduloni and terribly uptight, a terrible combination.