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[Brangelina]

Aka le Patatine

Love ya too penthe

Gosh Brange, sorry totally neglected your carnevale quest. I'm a bit sad today, have told ds off and feel miserable. Dinner's ready, will be back with some thoughts later (btw isn't mn down after 11 o'clock? that's 12 for us in italy?)

Thanks Penthe! I shall have a browse when MN's down later.

Got dinner to do myself, DD has requested spaghetti, which should be interesting....

I can't see me either Franca. But DH and family all went to an english school in Rome as his father's employer paid, so for them it's normal. Anyway, I really don't think we can affor it so unless they want to pay it all then it's a non issue.

they are opening a scuola elementare italiana here in London apparently..

where?

thanks hothell i just googled it... in Holland Park apparently so not hugely convenient for us...

btw in response to your earlier question, my family is originally from Calabria but we've moved around a lot, i grew up mainly in Rome and went to uni in Milan

a bit of a treck for us too, probably an hour train/tube compared to 10 mins walk...

Evening all - we went to the mainland today all 4 of us ( and NONNA!!)Ist stop to get dd1 a new car seat as minirosa is in hers ( backwards ) Eu145 later Dh wedged between the two so funny - me driving and MIL in front seat. The boot was full with 2 buggys the navetta and general crap - Its official if we ever go on holiday we will need a bus an Audi estate is not big enough . We went for lunch and then to an outlet ( dh took his jacket back !) and then went and looked at Carnevale costumes for dd1 but they were all so tacky - anyone goes near one of them with a ciggy she will go up in flames!
Sunflower how is your ds and huge sympathy I will have to re wash out duvet cover and dd dressing gown as they still smell - I think as I shoved too much in the machine and the smell did not come out.
Schools ( Rosa hides) its all so bloomin complicated and you have to trot round offices here and fill out forms especially of you want to go to a school out of zona. I have to take lessons from SIL DH is useless!
I apologise for my terrible spelling and punctuation - I did do very well in English but am still not sure how.

sunflower which side of london are you then?

I wish holland park was my area!!

Tbh for as much as I might like (haven't thought about it) I'm not sure DH would be that happy for dd to go to an italian school. I think at some point before she's 18 he'd like to have a proper conversation with his daughter in fluent english .

Rosa my car feels like that everyday! and it's just big enough for the dds and myself when we go on holiday. that's why dh stays behind all the time.

yes that is a good 'motto'. mine is 'be the changes you want to see'.

oh brange I like the pollock idea best. and I bet dd would love doing it too.

agree the pollock sounds great..

do you know if it is a fee paying school? not clear from the web...

oh, i have just read that the school does not want to be open solo ai pochi privilegiati, but then it mentions a fee of 7000 grand a year. lol.

gives us the website pls?

here it is, my dear
www.scuolaitalianalondra.org/website-italiano/home-italiano.htm

even if it was close by not sure i would send ds there, boh!

But English primary schools are lovely! What I'd have missed was a good old Liceo (snob emoticon) .
I think the ideal school is a mixture of two different system: the British school ability to nurture creativity and teach fair play/respect etc and a bit of the continental love for pure "nozionismo" .
Dh and his colleagues in the UK always noticed how English students were better at developing ideas/discuss opinions, while students from the continent were more knowledgeable of facts/theory etc. So, yes, my ideal would be a mix of both. And scuole materne from emilia romagna, of course!

I started to watch a bit of Anno Zero (mainly to lust after travaglio)... but it's very depressing, as usual.

yes i wouldn't send my dds there either. it feels too new, i don't want them to be an experiment...

I otoh am watching Jon Stewart and LMAO...

Rosa, luckly it wasn't raining and had a bit of su so managed to dry 3 loads (inc 2 duvets) outside so no smell (did short cycle to make sure I could dry them outside, but his soft rabbit was still a bit smelly (though you really had to press your nose in it)
In my old Micra, the 4 of us are very tight!! but we managed to get a 2ndhand 7-seater for family outings (shopping!). not sure how we'll manage the drive to the beach this year in my mum's estate with 2 boosters (DS and niece) and car seat (DD)

Pippi, I'm in Carshalton, used to live in Shepherd's Bush and then Chiswick, so that would have been ok for that school... but doubt that our Chiswick bedsit would have accomodated the 4 of us now! mind you, it'd probably still be quicker to get to Holland Park from here.

Who else is in London then?

dd1 bunny bun was the first thing I washed and then dried it with a hairdryer!!!
What about a VanGogh - sunflowers and get flowers from euro shop and stick in a hat-
Nothing on tv tonight but I must go to bed !

at london

sunflower I had no idea were Carshalton was so I checked it on the map. I used to live between tooting and mitcham once many many years ago when I was still single or in relationships with idiots. ah those were the days . I am at the opposite end. I think it'll be easier to meet up when I go to see my relative in treviso .

So really Hot is the one who's a real londoner not a suburban one like us! My closest to Holland Park was Hammersmith or Edgware Rd I think. In those days I'd have rubbished anything italian though.

know what you mean.

we were in Mitcham before carshalton and it used to take me nearly 3 times the time it takes me to get to work now! it is pretty good, really, 25mins I'm in Victoria, so about 40 mins door-to-door, as don't you find that to go anywhere within London takes "about an hour"? where are you and hot?

lol at real Londoner..
interesting what you say about the ideal school franca, i do love the arty/nurturing/soft/imaginative side of British primaries. They seem to do an incredible amount of singing at ds'. Today they put on a little play based on a book and I cried buckets, all these beautiful kids all from different backgrounds having fun and working hard. At my Italian primary we would have been doing analisi logica probably. They seem to also teach some grammar at his school, not sure if it is a school's policy, or the teacher's or what. I do think that if my kids are academic a liceo would be great for them.

lol at real Londoner..
interesting what you say about the ideal school franca, i do love the arty/nurturing/soft/imaginative side of British primaries. They seem to do an incredible amount of singing at ds'. Today they put on a little play based on a book and I cried buckets, all these beautiful kids all from different backgrounds having fun and working hard. At my Italian primary we would have been doing analisi logica probably. They seem to also teach some grammar at his school, not sure if it is a school's policy, or the teacher's or what. I do think that if my kids are academic a liceo would be great for them.