MN Little Italy 10

[francagoestohollywood]

Welcome, ciao, hello

Bucharest... tell your dh I (Alfredo, truck driver, born and bred in Sarnico BS) I'm not that fussed by the odd fart . And remember, I have a 6 yrs old son, what do you thing he speaks about all the time?

Oh dear, you talked so much I totally lost track of all I wanted to say to each post I read, I'll try:

• car seats: I can't remember

• Yes, the Guardian is one of the few media that gives a good out look to foreign countries, esp the EU, which seems ignored by the rest of the English press, apart from when it's time for bashing it

• Vatican: also don't forget the IOR, the vatican bank involved with the Banco Ambrosiano crack and Michele Sindona

• I refuse to pay the canone!

I don't want to pay the licence fee here, as it is mainly crap!

Thinking of changing my mumsnet name, but would that be confusing?

Exhausted from dealing with lots of crap, bleah!

I am so glad my kids are not being brought up in Italy,honestly I think there is no hope.

Canone ...dh rips up the letter each year when it comes ..its in my name as well.
Brange - re foot we have to wait and see if its a miracle cure. Dh ha shad x rays, ecografia, and the weight distribution thing ( money eater that one)and after it all they think its an inflamed tendon but its been going on for so long. This injection was a nasty one - today he is limping becuase of teh injection but we have to wait and see if this works and stays ok when he goes back to twice weekly karate and walking like a duck !
Hot what kind of name are you thinking of you could go Italiana ' bollente'.
Guardian I tend to read when I see it but I liked the independant - I tend to skim the online papers and do pick and mix !
NOthing on Tv tonight.....

Hot, you ain't seen crap till you've watched Italian TV over a month. I vowed when I started living here to never ever again:

• complain about how much tax I had to pay in the UK
• complain about UK telly
• complain about English common garden midges

I quite freely complain about all the rest of course, not least the lack of bum washing facilities in most houses. I do miss gardens though.

Franca, you're made of sterner stuff than me. After several years of living with Fartmeister Supreme (who oddly never demonstrated his prowess in the early days) I no longer have the stomach for it, so for me Scamy would need to have sphincter control. If he doesn't I'll let you have him, OK?.

So - what is Scamy's dark side then?

Oh good, I'm not the only one with a DP who rips up canone. And it's in my name too! He insists he's going to fight it all the way. It's alright for him, he doesn't have a heart attack when the buzzer goes and it's an ufficiale giudiziario.

So, what name were you thinking of Hot?

Yes, are you going to Paris then Franca? Cos if so, I'd have a brief shopping list for you...

Garden Midges - we have elephants that bite here in the summer.
The Uk - People that queue ( Bliss), Car boot sales and bargains ,but they have massive council tax.
best not get started on the Italy vs Uk lark we will be here all night !

I'm going tomorrow morning!

So exciting!!! You lucky thing!

Are you looking forward to it? What are you going to do?

bucharest DH has got the same look for me at times. and brange I did wonder why such prowness was not displayed here either...

hot yes change, not confusing. what would you be? and why?

Yes, I'm happy, even if it appears that very cold/rainy weather is expecting me there. I'm a bit fed up with this cold weather. It looks like I'll go for indoor things. I haven't been to the Louvre for yrs. And of course Le Bon Marche'

Damn, no time to pass my metre long short shopping list to you.

Tant pis, il y aura certainement une prochaine fois....

Bon voyage et bisous

go on, what do you need my dear?

Talking of pissing is it raining where you are ???

No, I'm not going to to start a comparison, far too exhausting.

Are your midges really huge? Norfolk ones pale into insignificance next to milanese mosquitos. I used to hate the little buggers, they always got stuck in my hair. But that was before I met the zanzara tigre.

No, it rained this morning and stopped before lunchtime. I think the forecast is good around Milan.

here no it isn't but I've got a dd2 screaming it down upstairs - want to swap [fed-up/tired emoticon].

I thought the zanzara tigre only exhisted in my mum's imagination...

Well that joke fell flat then ......
The beasts of the lagoon are huge we have the tigre as well and they really are my hatreds of the summer here. We have mozzie nets at the windows but they are pretty useless ( they are the stick on ones) I am seriously thinking of mozzie nets espec for the dds as hate the big red welts they get.
Pippi whats up with dd she is normally so godd- not a bug / virus I hope.
Forecast very cold here from domani !!!

Franca - Where do I start? Fromage, fromage et encore fromage de chèvre (the rustic ones with bits of straw/goat poo still stuck to them to certify their authenticity), une bouteille de Pouilly Fuissé or Cotes de Beaune (far too expensive here), une bouteille de St Verlan (but you might have to go to burgundy for that as I've never seen it anywhere outside the region), sablés de Bretagne (the real ones), proper croissants/pain au chocolat/pain au raisin made with butter, something from Galeries Lafayette, something from Bon Marché seeing as you're going there and if you've got time something from Cartier in Place Vendome.

Do you think you'll be able to carry all that?

Oh, was I being dim Rosa? I know the beasts you have there are monstrous, I thought you also had big midges in Cornwall as well.

Come to think of it, can one ever sit outside in the evenings in Venice?

I suppose you don't have coaches parked under your window with the engine running though.

All that talk of Pouilly Fuissé I think I'll get myself some wine. Nothing on telly tonight alas.