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francagoestohollywood · 09/06/2009 13:41

welcome!

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Penthesileia · 22/08/2009 23:52

Rosa, yes, how's your dad?

Camo - sorry the holiday was so stressful.

McCloud - What's up? Hope you're getting some sleep.

Franca - haven't said hello properly to you, I realise. Sorry! Hello!

Things got a bit better towards the end of the week with DD and the nanny. DD still cries when I leave, but only for a few minutes, it would seem. I think it's all going to be ok.

McCloudsextoy · 23/08/2009 09:36

Oh, hello! Fine today, well maybe a bit early to say....Yesterday I shouted all day at ds, he so irritated me!!!!! And then I felt rubbish because he is a pretty good boy, entertains himself lots, good natured, lovely with dd, etc, but yesterday I just wanted to be alone and took it out on him. Poor boy. I sometimes feel that I do not manage to give proper attention to either of the kids, that I spend my time taking care of hteir physical needs, take care of hte house, etc, but I do not manage to do what I love doing and I used to do with ds when he was an only: long sessions chatting, having baths, cuddles, playing, ohhhhhhhhh, dd is lucky if she gets a meal on her high chair! I like their company but it is a drudgery having chores and cleaninng blah, blah.

Anyway today I do not want to feel overwhelmed so I am taking them to the paddling pool close by. And I am now enjoying a coffee alone, dd back in her cot for a little play, ds told to stay in his room till I am ready...ohhhh time alone, time alone.

Actually dd is screaming now!

francagoestohollywood · 23/08/2009 11:43

Mccloud, hope you'll have a good day today. I know what you mean.

Penthe, ciao . Glad to hear things are improving with nanny. It takes a while to get adjusted and your dd's is at that particular stage when it's harder to leave mum.

Back to uniforms. I don't spend any extra money for school clothes, ds goes in his day to day clothes. Apart from grembiule, which is 10 euros at oviesse !

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francagoestohollywood · 23/08/2009 11:44

Have been watching Grand designs re runs on italian discover travel and living. And even re runs of No Going Back

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TheMysticMasseuse · 23/08/2009 14:26

hey everyone, hope you're enjoying this lovely hot day (well it's lovely in london...).

Camo, know exactly what you mean, whenever i go home i turn into my 16 yr old self, dh can't stand me... i think there's something about going back to your parents that reignites all the old dynamics. all about expectations etc. my little brother (29!!!) works for a multinational company, has an MBA, has travelled the world and yet we all treat him like some half-wit 12 year old who can't tie his shoelaces... and, lo and behold, as soon as he comes home he suddenly loses all ability to do anything without catastrophe (when he came to visit me after having dd1 he BROKE HER COT!!! i still can't get over it!)

McCloud, i so understand how you feel and that's why i really really need to keep working- i am no good with kids and chores 24/7. am actually mightily impressed that your dd can play in her cot (as dd2 refuses even to sleep in hers), so you must be doing something right...

all your talk about uniforms is making me sad... my dds will never wear those lovely english school uniforms, god knows where they'll end up going to school...

Rosa · 23/08/2009 20:00

Thanks guys he is doing ok they have upped his meds now and he has to take it a bit easy ..Yeah right!
Time alone when does that happen ?
As for terra ferma it scares me rotten about moving away as it is I don't have many amici as my friends don't have children so we don't see much of each other now. Then the friends I am starting to make from nido etc I will be so sorry to loose as I finally have some out of family contacts and I will have to start all over again and its hard as you all know . Plus I want a decent area low crime ( hard one that) and it has to have easy access to Venice train or otherwise - I wonder if I can cope with the strain and stress of it all as it will be up to me to start researching it all SCARY - and as for making the move oh well will see.
P.s We have a Grembuile from Oviesse !!!!

francagoestohollywood · 23/08/2009 20:10

Don't move rosa!!! you looked so at ease among those canals . Rosa speaks perfect veneziano in case I haven't told you already.
Mind you, you'll find easy making new friends at any new school, because you are lovely. And most mums will try to force teach english to their little ones

Masseuse, how did your db manage to break dd's cot?

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TheMysticMasseuse · 23/08/2009 20:16

franca, he sat on it (i had one side down as it's the bedside model)... clearly something designed for a tiny baby was not capable of holding 85kgs worth of grown man!

rosa, good luck on your move... stressful i know, but you will be fine i am sure!

francagoestohollywood · 23/08/2009 20:17

(sorry!)

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Sputnik · 23/08/2009 20:37

Welcome back Camo, sorry the holiday was a bit stressful, I think it's hard being around your family for extended periods at the best of times.

Re Brit style uniform, I never thought mine would wear it either, but here we are. Weirdly enough I ended up getting DD a cotton skirt from the US, with the exchange rate how it is it actually worked out quite cheap.

Franca I read Canticle for Leibowitz, which was really brilliant, then Children of the Dust which is actually a "young adults" book but quite gripping and I'm now on The Drowned World, which is a bit heavy going tbh.

francagoestohollywood · 23/08/2009 20:43

Thanks sput, I'm quite attracted to children of the dust.
Where have you been? (nosey)

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DebInAustria · 23/08/2009 20:46

Hope you don't mind me butting in. We live in Austria and are looking for accommodation in Friuli, but not on the coast in a big holiday park. We're struggling and the best we've found has stairs directly from the living room. I need help with how to ask in Italian if they have a stair gate to use at the bottom of the stairs. - Thanks

Also if any of you know of any good places to stay?

francagoestohollywood · 23/08/2009 20:50

Hi Deb, stair gate is cancelletto, I think.
"Avreste un cancelletto per la scala?".

When are you going to Friuli? I've only ever been to trieste, udine and the isonzo valley (which is actually slovenia)

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Sputnik · 23/08/2009 20:56

I would say canceletto too.

Franca I can lend you children of the dust if you like. I haven't been anywhere other than back and forth to Rome. More of that next week as DH has the week off so more trips to the beach and work on the house are planned. Tomorrow we are, hopefully, getting fridge, oven and phone/internet connection
Oh forget actually we went to Toscana last weekend.

DebInAustria · 23/08/2009 21:01

Thanks Franca and Sputnik, we're going sometime in the 1st 2 weeks of September before our boys go back to school here. I thought Fruili looked quite nice, I fancy a day at the beach, a day trip to Venice, and I don't know where else.

francagoestohollywood · 23/08/2009 21:01

Oh yes, Toscana, of course, I remember that.
A fridge! How exciting! I love buying appliances, the saddo I am.

Oh yes, please . Only if I can return the favour though. What sort of book can I tempt you with?

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francagoestohollywood · 23/08/2009 21:03

Trieste is beautiful and only a half hr drive away from the grotte (caves?) di Postumia in slovenia which are stunning.

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Sputnik · 23/08/2009 21:10

Thrilling yes. We got 25-30% off all our appliances in the end, which I'm quite pleased with.
Books, hmm. How about a surprise, I'll read anything but prefer english.

francagoestohollywood · 23/08/2009 21:16

yes, I'll have a good thought, hope I can get it right! I'll need your address.

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Sputnik · 23/08/2009 21:19

Ok, I'll dig out your email and send you my address.
Actually maybe you should let me know what you're sending in case I've read it.

francagoestohollywood · 23/08/2009 21:24

True.
I'm at inlaws at the moment, I have sarah waters the nightwatch with me, how does that sound?

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Sputnik · 23/08/2009 21:26

Yes good idea, have been meaning to read something of hers for ages but not got round to it.

DamonBradleylovesPippi · 23/08/2009 21:31

Franca I saw your post on this thread and by god you made me laugh!!!!
I was starting to feel such a bad bad mother! thanks for existing !

francagoestohollywood · 23/08/2009 21:31

Great. I enjoyed reading it. Will pop to Po asap.
I'm off to drink a glass of coca cola and make the most of pil's sky tv. 'night!

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francagoestohollywood · 23/08/2009 21:33

Pippi. That's what you get from italian parents . Not sure which parenting style is more irritating

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