MN Little Italy 16

[TheMysticMasseuse]

I HAVE STARTED A LITTLE ITALY THREAD!!!!

hooray for me!!!

Same here Rosa, I should do the underwear drawer sorting too as cannot fit anything in. Actually HE should do it soon. We have been saying it for months. God knows what's at the back . You are a good woman !

Seems like everyone is on War and Peace .

night night

Hi everyone.

Welcome SG!

Nice to see you Bucharest.

Too much to catch up on - sorry!

Had forgotten about W&P. Will try to find our copy... In a box somewhere.

We are book lovers here too, as people know!

New/old house causing DH and I despair. It's going to be a GD nightmare, I fear. Bits of ceiling falling in. Eeeek. Still, not as many rotten boards as we'd feared.

Still not moved in. Way, way up the proverbial creek without a paddle, as I'm back in the office in 2 weeks.

Got so much work at the moment it's stupid. Will never catch up with it all. Also am afraid I've lost my lecturing/teaching mojo. Just can't picture myself in the zone. I suppose I'll get back into the swing of things.

DD doing ok with the nanny, although she always cries when I leave and it's so sad that it's her little crying face that's the last I see of her each day. Feel like a bad mummy.

Oh no Penthe, please please please don't feel like a bad mummy. You are a gorgeous mummy.

Awww, thanks, franca. You too.

really, book lovers with only 10 barns full of books?

Penthe, she will adjust eventually... dd doesn't really seemed fased by my absence on the other hand... - i still feel guilty and miss her and ds sooooooo much

off to bed, buona notte

what's the matter with you all today?

Sorry to hear about your moving delay. Sounds like hard work, renovating, going back to work, getting dd used to another person. I can see how stressing it is. You need a holiday. Come to Milan, I'll take you shopping

oh x posted. Notte Camo!

Yes, Camo - I miss DD too. It's weird - you'd think that after 15 months of her velcro-ed to me, I'd have had enough... But I miss her. Pathetic, that I am.

I would love to come to Milan. Truly. It would be lovely. Maybe next year...

Notte everyone.

notte!

Hi, mourning Schwaize this morning. sob.

K Floyd is dead too. Perfect dreary cold weather for mourning people i don't know.

Sorry to hear aobut missing your dds camo and penthe, you are great mummies!

Started W&P and to be honest i am totally hooked and galloping it through it, i am not too clear about what the war is all about , but the chareacters are all very well delineated. Anyway cannot say anything intelligent about it.

If someone can give me a quick summary of the Napoleonic wars I would be grateful....

Goodness I can see myself becoming a real bore with this book.....

Did i post www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjvuCOlkO4E this before? Remembering Schwaize with a smile!

gutted re Patrick Swayze- loved him since The Outsiders.
Camo and Penthe re missing dcs- hope gets easier, hopefully dd will stop crying when you leave soon Penthe which should make it slightly easier.
First day for ds today-only for an hour today though. Idea was I stayed but he seemed ok so I nipped out to have a quick cig and cry at the fact he seems all grown up! How PATHETIC am I!!! He seemed ok although very overwhelmed. They have split his class for this week for the inserimento- and ds is with a load of kids who are 4/5 years old-all the other 2/3 year olds are in a separate class until Mon-don't quite know why he is the lone 2 year year old but oh well.
Oh and the only other Mummy I saw (as all the other kids bar 1 were old hands so only 1 other Mum present) was 6 foot tall, 6 stone and long blond hair with huge Gucci shades. Hurrah

So sad about Patrick... I remember me and a friend of mine watched Dirty Dancing for the first time on TV. It was a b/w tv and the aerial didn't work that well. But we managed nevertheless to develop a huge crash on him...

Awwwwwww first day at school Gio!!! Perhaps they thought he was "mature" enough to cope with the big ones?
Like Sputnik, we ask you to study closely this example of yummy mumminess and report back

MPoor PS!
Rememebr Dirty Dancing Days very well, never fancied him though.

Very of McC starting War and Peace. I will as well because these books ask for you to talk about them constantly. I was a total Brother Karamazof obsessed bore once.

Penthe yes it takes a while to get the working mojo back (and it's never going to be the same). Re dd crying, I am sure DD2 will do exactly that. I am dreading already leavng her at the gym creche as she will howl the entire hour for the next million years. Dd1 was always much easier. I can tell you already that first day at school on fri will be a doddle (pippi will eat her hat methink ).

sorry must go....

Hello and apologies for not being around... I did not realise there was a new thread and kept on watching the old one (is there a 'daft' emoticon anywhere?).

So I have just arrived in time to mourn Patrick... Ahhh how many Sundays did I spend watching Dirty Dancing?

Anyway - welcome Sui! I know that prams etc seem more expensive in the UK, but frankly everything is else seem to be cheaper in London than in Northern Italy... Nappies, food, everyday things. In particular everything with Avent written on it down here is maaadly expensive, so I end up being lots in the UK when I am there.
I love the Bugaboo Bee too - I have used it from birth (and I had a very prem baby, she was only 2 Kgs when we came home), and is fantastic, much lighter than any pram I have seen, and therefore very handy in London. DD is now 14 mths and I am still using it. Not a cheap option though, I agree - but I would never buy one of those trio/combos anyway.

Re: PIL. I agree that there is a cultural difference - but I do not think my PIL love my DD any less than my Italian parents (well, they are from Friuli though... Does that count? ) - they are just more reserved and really more worried re: intruding.

Penthe, I am sure your DD will be fine and it is just a matter of time - and you are not pathetic... I would miss her too, I do even when she spends time with the grandparents next door...

AND DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON THE COST OF BOOKS IN ITALY. I still buy a load from Amazon every few months - even with the postage and VAT, it is still cheaper than Feltrinelli. Of course there is no option for Italian books...

Latest school run fashion report here was a little strapless green mini-dress, at 9 o'clock on a rainy tuesday morning fgs
Thankfully there are quite a lot of normal looking people too. Gio I imagine in your neck of the woods you are going to get more of that!
Glad it's going well so far anyway.

Penthe, it is so hard leaving them isn't it? Both mine have been like that, and DS still is tbh, which is one reaon I want to hold back a bit on finding a nursery for him here, as I can tell he is finding the upheaval of moving hard as it is.

DD on the other hand is loving her new school more and more, I think tbh she missed half of what was going on at her old materna due to language, plus they didn't do anything like the range of activities. I have to remind myself of this when I think about missing our old place, because I am finding adjusting quite hard in other ways.

I wish I could look good in a strapless minidress at 9am on a rainy day though... Sigh sigh.

I don't think I have ever seen Dirty Dancing

Me too, I am jealous I suppose that I have not got "it" to flaunt anymore.

Afternoon all, mourning Patrick and Floydy here too......have even updated my FB status for the first time since May in P's honour.....
I went this morning to buy dd's grembiule (will I ever be able to spell them???) pencil cases etc and to try and get the last book (arrives tonight) for school.....

I've already had to start a thread, as franca knows, about the bonkers expectations of the southern yummies......I shall slip into my usual role of just-descended-from-Planet-Zog-mad-furriner I think......

Glad that all the smalls who have started school/nursery are enjoying it...please let it be the same for me on Friday...my (American) friend in Bologna's little boy started this morning and she rang me straightaway to let me know the maestro was in lilac trousers with a white shirt with matching lilac cuffs and collars.....the curse of the pastel-trousered-man strikes again.....

Have never attempted War and Peace, AK was enough for me.....don't really do books-where-people-wear-bonnets. Am currently awaiting lifesaving parcel from Amazon too. I've gone back to Amazon after Book Depository as Amazon come by courier and before the summer 7 parcels went awol between the posta and here. Pffft.

Who won Miss Italia? The 8 finalists all had wonky faces.

Send me 4 of those minidresses and I can wear them as gloves and leg warmers....
Got soaked this am as diddn't take brolly but I have my buggy brolly on order so beat that you Gucci wearers......DD ate bloomin vegetable soup at materna can I get her to eat that at home ????? Mind you she polished off a panino al latte so quick when I went to get her I wonder how much of that and polpette she ate ??
Patrick seemed a nice sort of chappie I thought he was ok and also my era..Mind you I like John revolting as well and Richard Gere but the one I really fancy is Sean Connery round 40 ish !!!!!!
Re prices I agree much higher I always order Amazon then 2 days later think of something else I should order !

Sputnik, you should see Dirty Dancing. It's not a movie, it's a rite of passage.

Ah W&P - read it when I was 15, just because I wanted to show off (I was a geek). Not sure I enjoyed it though...

Lol at maestro with lilac trousers... You should probably ask your friend for a daily update on the maestro outfit - could be interesting. It is funny though that my British DH has taken a sudden interest in the clothes he wears since we moved down south.

B, Miss Calabria won at the end. Not one of my favourites, or DH's.

minerva- please promise me though you will not allow him ever to think pastel trousers are OK??????

Just googled MissItalia (saddo emoticon) The other one was prettier until she smiled, then her mouth went skewiff.....I quite liked the corkscrew curled one.....

Am guessing DD will be on tonight???