MN Little Italy 11

[Rosa]

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Welcome , Ciao ,

sorry, battery went...

yes, the bidet, "it's obvious what's it for" what about the TOILET!?!?

hairy bums

Yes, but would people admit they had hairy bumholes? It might put people off as a bidet would then be seen as an indicator of a hairy bummed houseehold. A bit like pampas grass, non?

brange, how's your voglia di q.cosa di buono? I've decided to leave the tiramisu for tomorrow, but I still "need" something

Got to go - computer running out of juice, and can't see the cable.

Notte.

I'm not quite sure what I fancy. I've got a fridgeful of chocolate, but oddly enough am bored with it. I think I need something stodgy, like cake, or some decent biscuits (I only have discount digestives that my mum brought over from the UK. All squashed too, as they were in her hand luggage.

Actually, I really fancy something mandorlato, like a bakewell tart. Oooh yes! shame I haven't got one

Notte Penthe!

notte penthe!

oohh, that sounds nice... have a couple of biscuits/waffles mum made left, maybe with a bit of chock milk (found a nice hot choc tub today I'd forgotten I had...)

I have made a virtuous tisana instead and will go to bed and finish the crappy bodice ripper my mum left behind the last time she was here.

Notte Girasole!

snap, just finishing my "good night tea"

notte

Morning all....

Franca- when you say you fancied men who had moustaches at times does that mean they were false ones, that they stuck on as the whim took them? Please no!

Beards still fairly horrid, but a bit more acceptable as long as the owner keeps them clean and not full of leftover buns to nibble on in emergencies....and must never be worn together with corduroy elbowed jackets. (particularly in brown or green)

Dd has always drunk both tea and coffee (do you think the Gregg's pasty brigade would also think IwasBU for that? What else does one drink for goodness sake?

The bidet threads are bonkers- they are like the "eeeeuw breastfeeding is disgusting" people. How can washing your ar$e be disgusting? How?

Sunflower Your dh's boss sounds a thug. Myabe remind him that some ISPs take obnoxious emails as a sign of harassment and will be down on him like a ton of bricks.

I need a bag too- have noticed am only one at scuola media with huge bundle of books and papers under my arms...(mind , am also only one without a floor length coat made out of 1000s of small verminous creatures, but I ain't going that far) The Bridge bag I want is "only" £320 so maybe I shall treat myself in most extravagant fashion ever when I get paid (in 2013 probably) Nice bags last longer after all, so it's to be seen as an investment.

We don't have to follow the ministry's lesson- we just have to put "ogni virgola" we have done in the lessons onto the website.

Brangelina- Before becoming an ex-pat wifelet I worked in the Nationality Office in the UK- so can help out with any interpretation of naty laws.

Going to go and buy lots of fruit and veg now as am doing a detox for my gallbladder which appears to no longer be happy in its home....

got all excited this morning, went to the fabric shop to get knitting stuff, and they've stopped selling knitting materials! oh, well, had a good browse in the remnants box and got a piece of cotton big enough for 2 wrap slings/4 ring slings and another couple of bits to make a bag.... so not just a waste of time....

DS has tea if I have it... (ok, more milk that tea to cool it down quicker and biscuits, as apparently they make the tea cool down too )

Brange the questura guy was talking bollocks, I got an italian passport for DS at 5 months. He probably said "it's discouraged" as in "I can't be arsed, go away so I can take my coffee break"

Bucharest, I think a nice bag with your first wages is a grat idea. Just not the chanel one

I applied for the passport through the comune btw, I picked it up at the questura because I was in a hurry otherwise I think they would've sent it back to the comune.

Am getting confused here I thought that british babes caould no longer go on parents passports .... We will be getting the dds passports either one or the other ( which ever is cheaper ) when they go longhaul ... Probably Disneyland in about 5 years time ( oh yes we are dreaming ahead here !)
Hurrah my party bits arrived so I MUST go and do cooking etc etc as have both babes in bed... Brange nothing from Monza though

Hi there!
Penthe I like the bag you posted the link to, mmmmm food for thought. Though not in that purple, maybe.

Bucharest lol. No, I don't fancy men with moustache, I only fancied 1 particular man, who would occasionally shave his moustache. Mind you, had he had a fake moustache I would have probably fancied him more.

With regard to the posta, I read yesterday that some comuni near milan haven't received normal mail (apart from bollette of course) for 2 months

Talking of posta, I've just realised I bought a neti pot from ebay about 4 weeks ago and it's never arrived.
My postman is probably doing colonic irrigation with it. Eeeeuw.

PS Brit babies do have to have their own ppts. It's to stop non-Brit men kidnapping them when they fall out with their mummies (is the non-official reason why)I think Italian babes can still go on a parent's though?

what's a neti pot?

Bugger, wrote loads then it disappeared.

Agree Sputnik that it was probably a load of bollox. I find impiegati pubblici tend to make things up depending on their mood or what the weather's like. Mind you, I find they're quite helpful if you happen to be wearing a short skirt. The male ones are anyway. I will at some point attempt to get her an Italian passport from the comune, or can you get them from the poste as well? Do you still need o update it with a marca da bollo evry year or have they got rid of that too?

Rosa - glad your party bits turned up, sorry that my packet didn't. Never mind, I'll do you another one, tis no hassle.

Bucharest - interesting that you used to work in the nationality office at the HO... Do you know anyone influential I could bribe? Basically, DD's problem is that she's 2nd or 3ed generation by descent (depending on whether my grandad was in the armed forces when my Dad was born, which, it being wartime, he probably was) and I should have applied to register her at the Home Office (and not the embassy) before 12mo. However, not realising there would be a problem (and no one at the consulate seemed to think there would be) I didn't bother/never got around to it, so DD can no longer apply unless we reside in the UK for 3yrs consecutively. I had this lovely lady from the Embassy call me yesterday to explain everything and try to help me find a way aroudn things, but alas no joy. Oh well, never mind.

Yes, forgot to ask, what is a neti pot?

A neti pot is a wee jar thing to clear your sinuses out...I first saw them on here somewhere and got my Mum one- they are fab for nasal congestion....but rather scarily shaped, bit like sample bottles for men!

Brangelina- I see, about your dd...the trouble we used to find with the embassy staff is that they work for the foreign office, yet are interpreting home office legislation- so unless it's a straightforward case, they were always giving wrong information out- and there is no communication between the 2 groups- at the HO, we just used to receive the completed forms and dosh from abroad and deal with it, quite often to find that the embassy staff had taken (often non-refundable) money from people when they weren't eligible anyway. I'll dig out a link I always follow if anyone askes me about naty status....Is the one you aren't eligible for the one where you have to have lived in the UK for 3 yrs at any point prior to her birth? (am a bit rusty, I left 15 yrs ago)

Oh I see.

Gosh this passports/nationality businesses are complicated.

I'm off to work now, cheerio!

No, I'm eligible for that one as I resided in the UK for about 15 years before moving away again. The trouble is, my Brit family were a bunch of old colonialists and therefore we were all born in the colonies. The only one born in the UK out of us lot was my grandad, who may or may not ahve been in the forces when my Dad was born. Although, I do wonder, seeing as said colony was part of the British Empire at the time of my Dad's birth, and natives of said colony were automatic Brit passport holders at the time, wouldn't it have been as if my Dad had been born on British soil? In any case, it's probably academic as when I was born it was def no longer a colony (I am not that old!) so DD would at the very least be 2nd generation.

It was lucky I asked, because I was about to send her passport application off but then read something somewhere that put a flea in my year so I thought I'd check before sending my non refundable hard earned cash.... Good job I did!

With the colonies, it often depended if the Brits who were out there were given naty of the newly independant country. If they were, they tended to lose their Brit-ness. Malaysia was a nightmare.....I used to hide files at the bottom of the pile if it was to do with Malaysian colonials lol.

www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/britishcitizenship/eligibility/children/britishcitizen/bornabroad/

That's the site I always follow- it's a bit clearer than the embassy ones.