MN Little Italy 14

[Penthesileia]

Ciao, welcome!

ROFL !!!!! Yes it is us!!!!

Brilliant! I have a couple of places to go to buy hol things and that's it I think.

YUPPIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

Lol and of course

I'm instead trapped as dd's still got a temp and she'll miss her school fete today . And ds is at home until wednesday as his school was sede elettorale. And firday is his last day noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

We don't get to the cinema as often as we wish and used to do pre children. When we are child free we usually see friends. Last movie we saw at the cinema was Milk and I was a bit under whelmed.
I still remember fondly the 90s when the ticket was 7000 lire on the wednesday and 6000 lire on the Tuesday, if you had the tessera arci, which of course I had!

The archibugi movie is said to be good. Vincere by Marco Bellocchio has had mixed reviews, but mil loved it, for instance.
Italian movies of the last decade (more than a dacade, possibly) I loved were Un eroe borghese and Come due coccodrilli.

The DDs are both sitting on the sofa wide eyes and red cheeked watching Pippi! [proud mum emoticon]

DD is on the sofa watching Heidi

(ds has gone to mum's so at least he can go play in the giardinetti, he needs to be exercised every day, like a big dog ). Bless!

Boasting alert: yesterday we watched an old video, when our dc were really young, they were sooooo sweet . I forgot how sweet they were!

where is brangelina btw? She is working way too much.

yes I was thinking about Brange yeasterday...

Franca every time I watch Pippi I think Tommy e Annika are your DC .

. In fact dd has a much treasured yellow tshirt which she calls it her Annika tshirt

Wouldn't it be lovely if our children could meet at some stage?

Just catching up...
Glad you are feeling better Pippi, so much of what everyone said struck a chord with me too about feeling under appreciated and wanting time to myself. Actually I hate having birthdays, it really depresses me for that reason. It doesn't help that DH's birthday is on the same day as mine, and he isn't bothered.

Like Franca not even present and restaurant can be taken for granted here either.

Anyway, the Aretha Frankin vid raised a smile I am flying solo here for 10 days as DH has gone to Senegal.

My DD is off too. Why is it they needed to close not only the friday before the election, but also 2 days after?????

Gosh 10 days solo is quite a long time

No idea why, so typically italian isn't it?

Depressing polling results in the UK

Yes normally he goes for a week, and that's long enough. What's more most of the places he goes I am lucky if he brings me back some pineapples or something as a souvenir. In fact Senegal is pretty civilised by comparison.

I would disagree actually that Britain is basically a conservative country. But people are bored with labour, the young have no memory of the dire Thatcher years, Blair managed to piss off even core labour supporters and Brown is uninspiring.

Actually I think politics is cyclical. I have just been listening to Michael Moore's "Dude, Where's My Country?" and it's refreshing to think after all the sick things Bush and his cronies got up to America turned to Obama.

So, on the basis of that theory when Berlusca finally implodes the Italian left should merit a massive rebirth with its own Obama

Dream on Sputnik , and btw I don't think Berlusconi will ever implode! Did you see Lega at 10.6 ?

Yes, but look at how untouchable Bush seemed in 2003/4 when he told all those lies and started the war.

I believe in the circle of karma, man

I'd love to be so optimistic... but Italy is not the US . Speaking about karma, I think it should have stroke yrs ago, after Milano 2 ...

Yes, I was wondering where Brange is.

Hope MM (and DD) are ok too.

Also any others who haven't posted in a while.

LOL @ political karma. This means Italy is basically due the second coming of Christ.

Gah, it's so horrible that the BNP got 2 - 2!!! - seats in the European parliament.

ciao a tutte, here i am.

sorry i have been latitante and sorry that i haven't really read the threads at all for ages... been having a really tough time as dh is thinking of relocating us all... to the land of cuckoo clocks. fair to say i am less than thrilled and we are in a bit of a crisis situation right now, barely talking, i can't sleep (and neither can dd2, so that's nice at least we keep each other company) and i can't for the life of me have a normal, balaced conversation with him. i just don't want to leave London, my job, my friends, my identity... i am too scared if we leave i'd lose it all, and my sanity on top.... i don't want to be an expat wife, my mum was one, it was awful... but it all gets too emotional and that's not the way to take life decisions, is it?

anyway, apart from that all is good

Well, I hope the forces of cosmic retribution have something big stored up for Berlusca, perhaps a concrete overcoat?

Bossi should trip and drown in the source of the Po.

Bush and Blair: phosphorus shell up the arse, definitely.

Well we can all have our fantsies

Hi MM.

Gosh, that's a big change. Does your DH really feel it is necessary? I wouldn't be over the moon about it either. When do decisions have to be made? Do you have time to cool down and talk about it calmly?

Is DD's eczema any better?

LOL @ sending Berlusca to sleep with the fishes. [mafia emoticon]

Blimey, MM, surely he cannot spring this up on you? You have your job, house, etc. If ever dp told me he would want to relocate to his country, I would have to consider leaving him tbh. Luckily he hates his country.

What does he not like about his life here?

Ah sorry, x post MM.
Sorry you're having a tough time.

McCloud - I always assumed your DP was English or Italian.

Belated welcome back BTW McC

Sputnik

MM: do you mean the country of chocs and watches?
I totally know how you feel. (It's actually how I felt for years, silly me).
Good points about the rolex countries:

• very good schools. And they are free!
• Mountains: lots of skiing
• Very child friendly.