MN Little Italy 16

[TheMysticMasseuse]

I HAVE STARTED A LITTLE ITALY THREAD!!!!

hooray for me!!!

Hello all, and thanks for being so welcoming. I must sound crazy - nutella and launderettes ...

So, my insane laundry question is this: while we were on holiday (in Follonica) we used the local lavanderia quite a lot, and I became obsessed with the smell of the washing when it came back. I know it's bonkers, but I've been trying to recreate it with all the boring English washing powders and nothing, but nothing, comes close. I don't even know what the Italian laundry powder was, because it was the stuff that's already in the machine.

I'm so embarrassed to have to admit to this obsession, and in fact I'd abandoned the quest until I stumbled on your lovely thread. If anyone can help, I'll be eternally grateful. And Rosa, happy to bring things to Venice if you'd like me to!

I'm going to slink off again now. I feel such an idiot. But I do love Mumsnet!

Hope you all have a buona sera.

You were in Follonica?? So were we- when where? We went in August for 3 weeks. Also used the local launderette and I also commented to dp re the smell who commented back that I needed to get a life

I know - I totally need to get a life! But so glad you know what I'm talking about. We were in Follonica for two weeks, late July/early August. Had a fantastic time. We stayed in an apartment near the beach, ate amazing food and gorged on ice cream - I don't know how you cope with having that stuff available all the time. Ricotta e fichi was my undoing ...

Fichi??? argh. I have been dealing with a glut of figs and I cannot stand them any more...

Lol CJ .... not sure what kind of powder it was there are plenty... ... I'm personally addicted to Chante Claire liquid powder "al muschio bianco" (white musk, I think. ANd what it white musk, btw?)

Buch from bad to worse !!!

Rosa, how did it go today with the teachers?

Minerva, what happened with the figs? I love them, they remind me of my childhood, on holiday, in the country/ We used to get them from the tree...

Bah, I have to take dd to do a ECG, as paed said she has a innocente soffio al cuore... just to be on the safe side...

or maybe it was a posh Nuncas washing powder...

Figs in syrup, fig tart, fig chutney, fig jam. Same with the frigging plum glut. Hopefully I am not going to poison anyone!!! I used to like figs and plums...

Sorry to hear re your ECG - I had the same when I was small, and I marvelled at the screen with this thing beeping - it was like being on telly, I told everyone I had had one!

It'll be fine I think, the paed wasn't at all concerned. But it'll be a long morning of waiting...

Minerva you made all those things??

CJC. no idea what it could be, but I love my mum's powder al sapone di marsiglia, best ever! can't find it in england though

love figs, straight from the tree...

I'm at the teacher bucharest, but shouldn't, there was something similar here last year, a girl who, whilst discussing punishments in class, told the teacher that her mum had slapped her hand when she'd been really naughty, so the mum found SS at her door. I went mental once in a shop when DS was (about 2.5) being a monster difficult and my mum slapped his (nappied) bum. I shouted at my mum that now I was going to have the SS taking him away because surely someone would report the incident . but see, it happens

franca, hope all goes well with dd, my neighbour used to love telling everyone she had a soffio (always been fine btw)

oh, and went ot meet DP at work today (in his navy and yellow uniform , felt like taking a pic like DS' first day at school) so we stopped for meatballs and chips

at meatballs and chips! You should take a pic of your dh in the navy/yellow uniform and post it! (I used to have a hideous red shirt with black trousers when I worked there, but it was 1995 or something)

Oh yes, I feared ss every time I raised my voice (with that scary Italian parlata...)

Oh both me and dh have a soffio. I was told I couldn't become a pilot

night

was great, fed a family of 4 including dessert and coffee for less than £10 AND got DS nice and tired at the creche while we looked at the billy bookcase door options

notte

Camo am envious of your Ikea working dp (why can't my dp work somewhere useful??).
Bucharest, hope your friend is ok. What a stupid thing for the teacher to say
DP another member of the soffio club Franca, when's dd's appointment?
Minerva I love figs and am very impressed with your resourcefulness-any fig products welcome here in Rome . mmmmm prosciutto and figs, may have to be part of todays menu.

No appointment. According to paediatrician I just need to turn up at children's hospital with richiesta before 11 am. And wait till it's my turn, like you do with blood tests. I only have to pick up the right morning, maybe even tomorrow.

Gio, how did it go this morning?

ah choosing Billy's doors! I saw they make Billy in red now, I think it looks nice.

And blue! I like blue billy!

Franca, hope all goes well with dd's ECG- take a book...you may be waiting some time...if you were here I could raccomandata you as have list of cardiologists on my books

Just been on phone to my friend- still traumatised but this time over "pregrafismo" (??) which apparently, now she's looking at their books from nursery they didn't do enough of....they did letters straightaway, stampatello e corsivo...(I'm like, er, isn't that OK, then? That they can write????- apparently not...) Poor girl, she's going to be in the manicomio before long, her son is at his dad's at the mo' and apparently at 8.25 (3rd bell goes at 8.15) his dad still hadn't brought him to school...

My favourite washing powder smell is Ave (come lava!) I do change regularly though as I like to smell the smell IYSWIM, and if you don't change every time your nose gets too used to it....Some of the Dixan combinations are nice, but too sweet smelling. I like fresh-mountainy smells (whatever they might be!)

Have playdate this afternoon with friends from (and still at) nursery, so better go and do the Aggie and Kim thing....

Since when do teachers look at nursery books? Are they crazy? Plus, they don't have books in dd's materna!

I bought nuncas profumabiancheria some time ago and it smells lovely!

another hideous morning. This could get very dull for you lot seeing the same posts from me every morning - sorry! Clinging onto my legs and wailing. I am not keen on the maestra and he doesnt seem to be either. Last week he had 2 lovely substitutes. Now he has his permanent one and she is older, ploddy looking and doesn't seem to take control at all. Perhaps I am being unfair after 2 days but I want him to have his lovely substitute back!
Bucharest am at the school!

Gio this maestra sounds hideous. It is obvious that if he did the inserimento with a different teacher, then he has to get used to new teacher. So I'd ask if you could stay with him a bit, like you did in his first days.
Poor ds

Poor you and DS Gio, I have been there. Shame about the teacher too, ours was a bit like that in DD's old school. The best person there was the bidella, who would always cuddle the upset ones and ply them with pizza bianca and sweets.

I am back!

welcome CG Cregg! Cannot help yo with laundry question as I do not remember the smell you talk about. But agree Follonica being great. Went near there last summer and had fantastic time.

Quick update re school: dd1 loves it.

must go already as dd2 has woken up.

Oh bidelle can be fab!

Gio, you need to speak to the teacher and see if you can "re settle" ds. I think it's the best thing to do. And you'll also have a chance to see how she relates with the children.

Pippi, I missed you! re dd

Uh, I'm on a baby walker thread. I've never thought I'd "defend" baby walkers. I know they are unnecessary and potentially dangerous. But depicting them as the most dangerous things for babies is a bit ott. Apparently they have been banned in canada

Hello everybody, thank you for advice about a-level.

lol at banning baby walkers in canada! on second thoughts i wonder if there is a really small minority leaves their kids in it for ages with terrible consequences, and the only way to help these particular kids, it is to help ban them everywhere? Canada has always seemed to me a reasonable country. My 2 pennysworth.

Gio why the hell did they they change the teacher? Your poor ds is probably thinking that he cannot trust his teachers, if the original one disappeared. Bad, bad.

Lol, i cannot imagine bidelli in uk allowed to give pizza to the kids....

Yes Mccloud I agree that Canada sounds like a reasonable country. But there are also parents who leave their children crying in their cot for hrs on end (remembering an old NSPCC ad emoticon), should cots be banned? Or should we inspect every single house to check there is not dangerous thing left lying around when baby starts to crawl? It's ott imo.

Of course not.