Mumsnet Little Italy 9

[Brangelina]

Aka le Patatine

I love snow......and beards are OK if a) they are on men and b) they are not ginger and c) there is no leftover sandwich filling lurking in there....

Going to trawl backwards over your last few pages now....I've just been told off by maestra on the pulmino because dd's corsivo isn't very good. Eh beh? Like I'm worried? She's just 5 ffs and by the time she's 15 is not going to be writing exactly in the same robotic way every other kid in her class is.....

Pippi- I know exactly how you feel about the smalls starting "proper" school.....Even though dd is in materna here from 8.30-4.30 I do love that comfort blanket feeling that I don't have to send her if I don't want to...and then come September it's all obligatory.....She loves materna with a passion- hence me leaving her there all day, when I'm not even working- she just loves it so much. Just hope elementare will be the same.....

In fact, iscrizioni start today and I just know the whole town is passing biglietti and phoning people up to get their child in the right class....aaargh. (have, in fact, just spoken to dd's maestra whose daughter is in the 5th yr of the maestra that we might be passing our own biglietto to lol- bonkers)

My Mum worked for Ofsted before her retirement and said Catholic schools always come out better than any others....you get people with a Catholic Uncle 47 generations back producing his battesimo to try and get Junior in....

soooo much snow!!! we ain't going anywhere today, though perhaps later I may yield to the pressure and go build a snowman... I am a daughter of Calabria, therefore genetically incapable of such engineering feats.... DH, the pro snowman builder thanks to his nordic genes, has decided he had to be the only person in his company to show up for work today and has left, presumably to walk to work... stakanovista! although i suspect the prospect of spending a day at home with his girls was a powerful incentive!

i wonder whether i'll manage to go to work tomorrow actually?

bucharest, why is it that catholic schools are so much better? i always wondered.

BS- (am reading back 3 pages now!)

I think the trouble is on MN, as I've said before some people can get away with saying anything. If anyone not in the in crowd says exactly the same thing- they get bashed. Pffft.

Dd's maestra is always telling me off because we go to the UK for 4 wks at Christmas and she says we shouldn't take so many days from nursery- I point out that since September she hasn't had one single day off for illness and even goes on Saturday, and am sure that if you added all the febbres (usually of about 36.6 [hmmmm] (my friend "knows" her daughter has a febbre if she gets hiccoughs!)and mal di golas and other nonsense that MunchausenByProxy Mummies seem to get a kick out of, then those absences would be loads more than my chunk at Christmas!

Who is it that said they liked Leonardo Di Caprio? Franca? Was it you? Don't you think he looks like a fetus? Or a potato? hah! you will now!

LOL at di caprio looking like a fetus... true!!

There's a catholic near here which has the best report and has got excellent in everything. yes why are the catholic always the best?

DD1 has got conjunctivitis (sp?) so the prospect of going out... having said that I remember how we loved going out as kids building snowmen and wearing our skying gear and even sledging/skind down the streets...can't deprive my child of that can I. although I bet she'll want to go home before I do.

I remember that passing notes to teacher to get to best sezione... I remember the endless phone calls between my mum and her friends...

dd1 is also sick... has 38 temperature. am i being mad to even entertain taking her out anyway???

di caprio a potato? lol

Bucharest's list of potato men:
Di Caprio
David Cameron
Ian Hislop
Ray Quinn (X Factor/Dancing on Ice panto boy person)
Brad Pitt (a hamster shaped potato)
Mastella
Gerri Scotti (albeit a jovial Uncle kind of spud)
The politician who got irate about religion- can't remember his name, think he's a lega....he was in European parliament....
Zelig bloke.

And poor old Mortadella, of course, is something of a potato-head!

LOL bucharest! you are spot on!

BS I would take her out only for her then to cry 'I'm coooold I want to go home' after 5 minutes! I'm a useless mum though.

Will try to go out when DD2 wakes up. bet you this will happen to us.

My my, it took me ages to read through all that lot!

Lol at the potato heads. I've always thought many English men have the potato heads - you know, the ones who get themselves a number 1 and wear football shirts to go shopping? I seem to see a lot of them in my forays to UK shopping centres. Agree Di Caprio looks a bit odd, he still has a baby face but his neck has thickened.

BS, no snow in Calabria? Pah! The only time I got snowed in and trapped for 10 days by the weather was in Calabria. Might have had more to do with the lack of snow plough as the sindaco had just been arrested and no one else had the authority to request one. It was bloody cold, no one had central heating, just a fire in one room. Having a shower was a challenge!

My Catholic school was/is outstanding, apparently, but we also had the highest rate of teenage pregnancy. Might have been something to do with the advice from one of the nuns to keep our legs closed so the devil doesn't get in.

Lol @ the nuns.....Were you also told not to wear patent leather shoes so your pants weren't reflected in them to tantalise the boys?

Don't know why Catholic schools are supposed to be the best in the UK....

Oh- all English men after a certain age turn into potatoes. I am constantly amazed by Facebook school page- I don't think I've changed that much since school- at least I still have hair on my head! But the blokes..Eeeeuuuuuuuw. Maybe that's a plus point of having hypochondriac mammone Italian boy- they do seem able to keep their hair better....

apparently the latest 'advice' at RC schools is not to have the cervical cancr vaccine done ! why?

Oh I don't know about Italians keeping teir hair better. Maybe down your way, with the climate and lovely veg it might be true, but here in Polentoneland there are quite a few billiard balls, some as young as 25! At least the head shape is nicer so they can carry it off.

our nuns did not say any such things. or maybe being italy you hear it so many times - catechism and the likes than in and out it goes.

Because you're not supposed to need it as you won't be having multiple partners, or indeed shagging beyond procreation necessities...

One of our nuns was a closet lesbian and ran off with a non-nun RE teaqcher, who left her husband over it. It was quite the scandal that year, I can tell you!

I bet!

oh FGS. same reasoning behind contraception I guess. do you only get it by 'sleeping around' then?

Apparently you increase the risk by having lots of partners. You decrease the risk by using barrier methods, such as condoms, which people should be using anyway for the HIV and other STDs issue.

Grrr, I keep getting logged out! Is mn trying to tell me something?

Just reading through the thread I used to have a fab hairdresser on the Kings Rd who used to cut my curly hair dry. They were the best haircuts I ever had, the kind you really could wash and leave and your hair would be perfect. Nowadays my hair is flat and sticks out all over the place and despite my hairdresser knowing I'm a lazy cow, I've never had a wash and leave cut, apart from the time I cut it all off!

I find UK hairdressers cut better, but they do the piega and colour much better here in Italy (plus they're cheaper!).

Anyone a bit about the situation re the Italian workers in Lincolnshire? I've been reading a few comments on news websites which have made me very ashamed of being British. I wonder, would the Lega have made such a fuss if it was the other way around?It's a big news item here atm and is not placing the UK in a very good light at all.

the situation in Britain is really dire, the economy going tits up, people worry about jobs and begin to distrust foreigners, horrid. Cannot believe in the space of a few hours we ahve managed to discuss very flammable topics such as private schooling, catholicism and xenophobia, and we are not shouting at each other. lol
With catholic schools is a fulfilling prophecy, ambitious parents expect them to be good so will find god at the last minute to get their kids in, so you get a school full of children of ambitious parents, etc. What do you think? What I like about religious schools is that they are more democratic in that everybody can find god and not linked to race/class/conoscenze/wealth. We visited a Catholic school for ds, but when we were told we would need to get a rosary for ds and teach him to pray we run a mile.

Brange- I am currently on a debate Elsewhere in Cyberspace discussing the Brits on strike thing- it's bonkers- the UK unions don't seem to know what they're talking about as first they go on about protecting "British jobs" then they say they're concerned because the Italian workers will be getting paid less and that's not fair....

All tenders over a certain "size" have to be opened up to any company in Europe and if the Italian offer was judged the best, so be it.

I doubt the Brits on strike buy all British goods, after all......

Bizarrely, dd's nun-run nursery was the only one we went to that didn't ask us about our/her religion..the statale did....maybe the nuns just assumed?