MN Little Italy 15

[francagoestohollywood]

welcome!

ehm, actually lots of UP parents around here! today i saw a mum telling her 3 year old who was hittijng her in the face : why do you want to hit mummy? And this with the gentlest of voices and a soft smile. Kid within 5 mins had pushed another boy on the floor and snarled at dd, and the mum totally did not see it!

I love Charlie and Lola!

Did you see Bannnatyne on Dragons' Den? Si' e' tinto i capelli, che orrore. I caught myself fancying Peter JOnes.

That will be me yawning at 10pm. Franca how do you keep your relationship happy with your dp?

are you going to fiabilandia? not a big fan personally of these places, poor ds will never get to go....

Peter Jones !! Che schifo. No NO NO. Con quei completi blue gessato [blarrghhh].

I saw a 5 or 6 year old boy with very long hair tied back in a ponytail today, I was quite shocked!
Good news on M&S, I saw a few months ago they started posting to other European countries, but not here, so glad they got their act together.

Friend wants to take us. I like these places in small doses. Could not do an entire holiday in disney world for example but could go in for a day.

Oh I am telling you sputnik they are all like that, long hair a la celine dion's SON !

I was staring at watching him for ages trying to figure out if he was a girl dressed a bit tomboyish, but no, he was called Davide.

It's quite unusual here.

We were at this big centro commerciale trying to get DD shes for school. They don't have them all'inglese and we needed blue or black. Ended up buying Kickers, I am still hurting!

Shoes, obv.
I have started on W&P, as nothing else to read.

So it should be! unusual I mean. [right wing suburbian DM reader emoticon]

Have you?? Nooo I cannot start till I buy the italian treanslation McC has instructed me to. don't go to fast.

I am only on page 2 so far. Maybe I'll dig something else out to re-read.

lol at "instructed". Let us know Sput if you get through the first chapter about hte war. And no skipping allowed.

posted on the uP thread by the way.

pmsl at celine dion's child. oh my goodnessssss.

Anna Karenina's better than W&P (if that's what W&P is supposed to be). It has fewer characters for a start, you put W&P down for more than 5 mins and you have to run through the people again to remember who's who. And that was when I was young and sprightly and had more memory. I never managed to get to the end of it, but reading parts of it in original language probably contributed to that.

Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time is very good, as are Pushkin's short stories. His verse stuff is also quite good, but you've got to be into verse really. I really liked the name Yevgeny for DD if she was a boy from Yevgeny Onegin - not that I'd ever have got that past DP but I can dream.

How are you all? Have y'all been on holiday? I'm finally going next week [huge relief emoticon], booked it today (talk about last minute!). Let's hope the weather holds out.

OMG I just noticed there's now some weird DM association!

Brange! I was thinking of you today as I was in DPAM, getting DD some knickers. Not seen you for ages. How are you anyway?

I have Anna Karenina too, maybe I'll start that instead.

Did I scare you all off?

....trundles off to bed....

Ah sputnik! Lol at you thinking of me when buying knickers. I would hope the association was DPAM .

Yes, leave W&P well alone, far too taxing post dc imo.

No, they are just busy battling the UPs

Yes, DPAM, not knickers.
The copy of W&P I have says "the greatest novel of all time" on it, how to resist?

UPS? Is there a thread about spedizionieri?

Unconditional parents.
Who nevertheless have to hold the door shut to keep DCs in their rooms

I should start a thread about spedizionieri, as have been battling one recently, but wouldn't presume to bore people.

Lol, yes, they're all great novels, aren't they? Jane Eyre was also supposed to be a great novel, was it not?.

I've just read loads of light reading material - things like Brick Lane etc. I still have a 1000 Splendid Suns to start but can't bear the idea of the emotional turmoil at the moment.

I have been having turmoil with DHL but have managed to bounce the problem back to someone in the UK. I just can't be dealing with banal crap right now. I'm a bit burnt out.

I've been taking on staff lately and OMG at all the documents involved. I got tired just looking at them.

Sounds like you're working hard.
We are in the middle of house-moving turmoil.
Where are you off to on holiday?