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[Brangelina]

Aka le Patatine

brange thanks for the recipe for the carrort cake. DD1 are going to make it now. will let you know.

MOrning all from a grey and cold Venice they say its going to snow - Franca let me know if it is coming my way !!
Its no good I can't get on with the grey writing in talk forums its to wishywashy against the blue ( whinger or what ???) I find I am straining my eyes to concentrate . But writing this you can see the difference as this is black !!!
Films - that last one I watched in full was last summer and I can't remember what it was oh yes I can it was Mamma mia in an english cinema. As for a rental or dvd not a hope .

Hello everyone! it is official, I cannot keep up with you lot! whenever I login there seem to be 4 more pages of posts and by the time I have read them all whatever I wanted to say feels out of date

I s'pose the problem is you seem to be a nocturnal bunch- whereas I am usually wiped out by 9pm... well actually last night I conveniently had a fight with dh which allowed me to storm out to bed at 8.30 and I actually fell asleep 10 minutes later and pretended not to hear dd2 waking up 3 times before 1 am... at which time I felt I had enough energy to deal with her for her subsequent three awakenings... I am really exhausted though, dd1 has only just started sleeping slightly better and dd2 is degenerating big time... she's probably planned it all to coincide with me returning to work... NEXT TUESDAY!!!

I don't want to go back really, so depressing. I am excited about the intellectual and social aspects, but I am soooo tired that I cannot possibly see how to squeeze in more stuff into my brain or my life...

I should come clean btw, I have a nanny and I love her, well not her personally, jsut the fact of having one, I even kept her (although only 3 mornings a week) while i was on mat leave- got to borderling PND with dd1 and realised I am too much of a wimp to bring up children on my own... too hard without any family network. So now I pay 80% of my salary to my nanny, but have decided it's either that or the looney bin!

ok better go and grab a few minutes of sofa time while the dds nap. you all take care!

PS hothell- pls pls don't say anything bad about Heath Ledger- he has a special place in my heart I saw Casanova just hours before going into labour with dd1 and I swear it was only by thinking of him that I got through it, forget the breathing and visualisation, it was lust for me! I actually cried buckets when he died. and 10 things I hate about you is such a lovely film, though I will always remember him as Ennis del Mar, such a phenomenal performance!

pps lovely to see lots of you are film buffs, I love movies, though sadly I am stuck at 2005, been to the movies only 3 times since having dd1 and usually too knackered for dvds... what a sad life I lead!

BS you were thinkiing of H Ledger in the middle of labour? I was screaming my guts out and thinking of dying, maybe it would have helped thinking of a good-looking lad...

Bs in what field do you work (without blowing your anonymity...), and how old are your kids? Sorrry if you said before, but so many women on this forum now...

My dcs slept through early on, with ds the first 8 weeks were hell, totally sleep deprived, then slept through, dd slept well from beginning. I feel for you as I was fearing depression big time due to lack of sleep. Do you know why the kids wake up so much? It is a hard one to crack, in bocca al lupo. There are some books out there with tips on getting kids to sleep, not sure how helpful though.

Going to read my wonderful Jane Austen till it will be time for cooking.

I can't keep up either sunrise. Probably because my ds NEVER sleeps early and so is around all evening eating into my MN time . How long have you had off work now?
We went to Ostia today to restaurant on the beach and I had risotto alla crema di scampi and sogliole alla griglia and it was sooooo nice. Needed a snooze with all that food and white wine but ds wanted to throw shells into the sea for an hour. We then had to parade up and down and throw coriandoli for an hour which he loved even though he was the only child not dressed up as he hates his costume! He is Thomas the Tank mad and my Mum sent this fab Thomas outfit with a train he wears around his middle and he hates it .
Which Jane Austen are you reading Hot?

Is it cold there in Ostia, meant to snow here on Monday.

Reading Mansfield Park, but mnet eating into my reading time.

Not many people around today, everybody doing weekned chores?

BS don't worry about not being able to keep up - it means you have more of a life than us. Tbh if my dds were
non-sleepers not only it would be the loony bin for me for sure. Is your DH italian as well - sorry if you did say it already. Like hot my dds slept through from the beginning and that has saved me. There was a time when dd1 was about 2.5 that was a nightmare and I was at my wits end and these ladies can testify. Do you work far? Are you full time (feel free not to answer if you don't want to). I've just resigned - my mat leave was about to end mid march. I'm relieved if I'm quite honest as it was far and I had lost all interest. Must find something else though but not too much in a rush.

Also well done for thinking about Heath L. while in labour. second time I really wanted to die rather than have another minute of it.

BRANGE!!! your carrot cake is the best ever. So easy to make and came out PERFECT!!! even thought I read tbsp for tsp and dd1 was quite a fist with flour etc. I'm eating it now DEEEEEEEEEEElicious!!!!

Gio at seaside stroll and nice seafood meal... and at coriandoli.

Rosa you ok? is minirosa sleeping allright?

macche week-end chores hot. the weekend is NOT for chores, is it? I'm babysitting for a friend so I've got the all evening for myself. I've got the sat papers with me, do you think I'll get through them/? I'm also pretending to watch grand design again.

hi there everyone. my DH is not italian, but not english either- the plot thickens

the sleep thing IS a killer... I will go crazy i am sure. Hot i have read every book on babies' sleep and decided they're all crap and they will sleep when they are ready. we have made huge progress with dd1 although it has taken 3 years!

I am going back 3 days a week, which i suppose is not too bad. I work as an economist/policy analyst and commute not too bad- about 45 minutes door to door if the tube is running ok. will let you know how i get on.

about to order a chinese, so fingers crossed my dds sleep!

UHH so are your dds trilingual (or are they going to be)?

You are right they are al crap. and I'm not going to give you any advise because I've got none. we did get it wrong with dd1 and got very stressed about it. Poverina I bet she was just unsettled as we just had moved. anyway that's another story.
I am sure it'll be fine. Imagine the social life, the lunches, the clean nice clothes you get to wear... ahhhh

different topic. at gas and electricity bills £400 each for 3.3 months!!!!???????? Is it the same for you all or are we doing smthing wrong?

You are watching Grand Design AGAIN?
I am going to try the carrot cake too, as immediately vey jealous, maybe next week.
I could not used my brain if i didn't sleep...
Have you applied for the Postgraduate Pippi?
No chores here either, spent all day with the kids at home and loved the doing nothng atmosphere.

we pay less but our place is smaller, let's see what the others say. how many hours do you have the heating on a day?

ohh, the lunches, and undisturbed coffee breaks..

not the same one! I'm not really watching as talking to you and doing expenses and copying brange's carrot cake recipe in my precious recipe book - while binning all the others.

yes I have completed application and sent it. will see what happens. If nothing else it will teach me smthing that I can use with my own kids. I expect to feel rubbish often thinking about how I dealt with something rather than how I should have. never mind. although I am a first child and love it I feel quite sorry for dd1 at times as she was/is the trial and error one.

normally is on from 6am to 8.30am and from 4.30 to 9.30ish. but when really cold is on all day (it turns itself off when reaches temp.)
I was shocked at electricity more than gas tbh. never mind.
mcleod's voice is soo relaxing though. I've got revolutionary road the book. have you read it?

I like this house for once. it's really good. watch it. more 4.

havent read RR, will do though, franca liked it.
it seems like a lot, maybe it is an estimate? double check as they might be tryign to make you pay for energy you will be using tomorrow at today's prices. and prices of energy are meant to be going down.
is molasses the same as treacle?
was the cake moist?

oh look at the limestone!!!!

no was actual reading. oh well.
molasses is very dark and sticky brown sugar. I did put it in . It was soft and moist and light. buonissimo.

I really liked it. personal but tasteful for once. I love exposed bricks.

Brangelina, will treacle do? I will put in my book and call it the brangelina cake!

his voice is very soothing...

is there a red car in the middle of the sitting room

the exposed brick thing is a bit out of date for me, very clerckenwell late 90s....

hei, there is another one!

yes yes you are quite right actually. To me it feels like New York loft circa '90 , it reminds me of my youth .
bloody hell another one has started.

I put it in my book as brangelina's carrot cake too!

lol!