MN Little Italy 14

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Ciao, welcome!

I didn't look. I did ask but he insisted it wasn't and it did sound quite violent. The one-liners were just as corny though.

Just realised I've missed CSI.

I'm so tired, I really should get off here and go to bed. I feel quite punchdrunk and I haven't been at the wine. Thank god tomorrow's Friday!

brange I am still laughing at the towel incident . People might think I am mad!

what's a cake tin?

Sput, dd will get:

• from my mum and dad bits of Sylvanian families
• from pil : un' altalena too keep in their garden . She'll love this.
• from me and dh: we got her a pair of sandals (me and her went yesterday and she's very proud) plus I got her a few books (she's very into books)
• others I don't know!

How about a pair of pattini a rotelle? A bike?

I should too, I'm trying to buy the dds some clothes for the summer holiday. Once upon a time I thought it was sad to buy in bulk off the internet rather than pop to the shops whnenever ... I did not have two children then.

Me too, although I still manage to make it down to Zara. I need to keep of ebay too, I always end up on there for hours and buy lots of unnecessary stuff.

Pattini sound good. They have small sized purple rollerblades in Decathlon.

DD has her saggio di danza in a couple of weeks, got to go and pick up her tutu (rotellina!) tomorrow. Sono tutta emozionata!

Right, off to bed now before I drop off and dribble on my keyboard. Notte!

PS. A cake tin is a metal tin (usually round) with a lid. Like one of those Danish butter biscuit tins they sell in Coloniale.

awwww bless!

lol at coloniale! I need one, then !

Hi everyone. I really hope you don't mind if I hijack your thread a little as I'm looking for some advice that you Italian ladies can maybe help me with. We are going to Italy in June for 2 weeks and my DD is still on SMA formula. We'll be in & around Lucca lots - does anyone know if it's likely I'll be able to buy it there? Or is there a similar Italian version? The alternative is taking it with us and DH has suggested to save space we transfer some from the tin into a freezer bag and it will pack flat - of course that won't cause any questions, a bag of white powder packed into the kids luggage...! I'm off to bed just now but will check back tomorrow - any advice will be very much appreciated thanks! x

Hello Bonny- I'm not sure if you can get SMA over here- I think not....I've never seen it anyway....but even if they did sell it, it would cost a gazillion times more than in the UK- formula here is outrageously expensive- my friend pays about 30 euro for a tin which has 500g in it...so in any case, I'd bring my own!

Hope you have a lovely time!

Brangelina- I watched CSI and didn't understand anything- (although dp says "you've been watching it for 10 yrs and at the end of every show you always say "non ho capito?????" (not true, honest))

We have suntans al Coratino here.....(Corato- about 15 minutes away, but inland, therefore shirt-sleeve suntans...)

Dp managed to get himself nobbled by a colpo d'aria in the midst of this tropical heat yesterday......I wonder how long it would take a southern man to no longer believe in the homicidal folly of aria and sudore?

Hi - thanks for the info earlier . Checked with ryanair (you'd think i'd know by now) and I can take a pushchair with me free of charge, hoorah. Just got to to sneak on dd's booster seat base somehow. Panic over! I wasn't going to take one this time as I only used the pushchair to carry wood up for the fire last time but I hope to get in some longish walks, i.e to the next village and not sure dd's up to that yet.

A pui tardi!

Hello Bonny I have never seen SMA in Italy but then I was using Aptamil/Milupa/Milton which you can find in italy as well. I also used to swap formulas when I was down there as my kids were not fussed by the difference, but yes it is a lot more expensive. I have taken it on a few occasions when I wasn't staying for too long. But yes I've packed it in the suitcase in the same way as you said. Maybe do put it somewhere within easy reach so that if italian bored looking for a promotion customs do decides you are a coke smuggler you do not need to show your lovely underwear to all italian airport staff .

Yes, formula milk deffo more expensive here in Italy, take it with you, it's going to be cheaper!

Hi Bonny, never seen SMA either. I used to use neolatte-its an Italian make -MASSIVELY cheaper than the main brands and you can only buy it in chemists (costs about 9 euros for a big box). My pedatrician recommended it. It's organic and was the only milk ds could digest. Website in English below
www.neolatte.it/eng/index.php
Have a lovely trip
Bucharest- Lol at dh and colpa d'aria. We slept with fan on and I woke up with a sore throat!!! But didnt tell dp obviously.
I went out for a meal with a friend on weds, had a few too many glasses of wine and left the keys in the front door to our apartment!!!!! Keep breaking into cold sweats (not easy in this heat) re what ifs!!
How many exclamation marks can I fit in one post?

Bucharest, how on earth did your dh manage to get a colpo d'aria???

Gio at the keys. Yes, I'd panic with what ifs just like you.

gio if it makes you feel better I do that all the time: keys left outside the house, wallet on the porch, bag outside by the front door, car unlocked all day and night with everything in it etc. My friend and I run a competition for the most dopey. Obviously nothing of the above has ever been told dh .

at least it's not just me , however I was daft enough to tell dp and am obviously never ever going to hear end of it!
Latest what if fantasy involves dodgy people who take the keys, go and make copies (in the middle of the night ), before kindly returning and replacing said keys in door-all so they can execute their fiendish breaking and entering plan at a later date
I think I need to move on

Gio, are you me?

Aaaarghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Please make me feel less stressed...I'm being really silly, but am sitting here in tears....have to do new passport, been and had photos done at fvckwitty stupid little man's shop.....done assegno circolare wotsit, been to collect photos and I'm going to have to do the fvckers again for ONE millimetre.....The embassy website says the bit of the photo with my head on needs to be no less than 29 millimetres, and it's 27 and a bit......Dp has just shouted at me on the phone for letting this happen again. (when I did dd's passport they actually sent the photos back and we had to start again) It's not my fault, it's the schtoopid old git in the photoshop.

I'd risk sending them, but having (of course) left it to last minute, I don't have time to do them again in 10 days time....and if they are looked at by some wanky machine, then it will reject me for 1 millimetre....because of my small head..... (don't want sad emoticon, want lying on floor kicking and screaming emoticon)

I'm totally ignorant, but can't you have a carta d'identita'?

A quick google reveals that I can have a carta, but I can't travel on it...which makes sense I suppose...apparently only citizens of the country issuing the ID card can use it for "ex-patrio".
I'm going to walk to the station (and sweat some more- I'll be gorgeous) after lunch and see if they still have a photo machine. Must be better than the old git in his shop, who really needs to retire. (he was shelling fave this morning in between fvcking up my day)

Ah Bucharest no advice for you but I can really sympathise about aged fuckwits in photo places. When DS needed his passport photos done, he was just a few months old, I explained patiently to the deaf old fart how the photos had to be, head on etc etc. He insisted on doing it himself rather than letting his (probably) granddaughter do it. Anyway obviously he took the shot when DS was looking away. When they came out and I said sorry that-s no good can we try again he very abrubtly sent me to another place down the road.

Actually we did it ourselves in the end, sat DS in front of a white background, took a million shots til we got it right then took the result somewhere to be printed. Maybe you could try that?