MN Little Italy 18

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Where are you????

Camo, that's very stressing! And I hate it when doctors are patronizing!

The paediatrician I spoke to today didn't say anything about Tamiflu. She just told me to give them Tachipirina or Nurofen (here it's nuroflex)... boh, non ci capisco niente!

Boh, tutto molto strano.

Where is Pippi? Still waiting for recipe for chocolate anuses....

do you think you get to choose anuses ?

oh, so fed up, so much conflicting info on SF, boh

Pippi might be too busy experimenting the perfect recipe for choc anuses

Does anyone know how to alternate paracetamol and nurofen? I can't remember anymore.
Dd has a high temp. Ds milt temp with headache. They are watching Maisy.

Cannot remember, sorry!

Of course, dp has to lower the tone of our conversation by mentioning choc penises.

Sorry I had a life today !

I was alternating every 2 hours when temp really high. Otherwise every 4.

They gave me the code for Tamiflu over the phone/internet but the GP told me to use calpol neurofen and come back after 5 days if it didn't go. I was happy with this as don't want to give it to them for no reason.

There's a censured episode of occhi di gatto on utube. ing!

I remember watching one cartoon after lunch, a bit of bim bum bam at 4 and maybe one episode of something else for dinner. One episode is 20 minutes with pubblicita' so really not much tv.
And also do not forget that all these cartoon have been on for years - some stll are - so I bet you we probably watched the same series a million times.

Had not had time to perfect the recipe as went to Paradise pakr with dds and had fantastic day. They had white lion cubs and snow leopard cubs. minipippi kept calling them with our cat's name and wanted to go in the enclosure and stroke them !

Franca - If you give 1) say Calpol if temp doesn't go dwon then you can give Nuroflex after an hour. I tend to try to stretch to 3 hrs or even 4. As long as you don't exceed the max dosage for each in the 24 hrs you are fine.
I fifn that Nuroflex works faster and lasts longer in both of mine but I need to get a sugar free version for minirosa as it sends her loopy .... Bouncing off the sides of her cot.
Things looking a bit dire there Franca ?
Camo what a terrible afternoon - I would have demanded to see a GP to be honest and I bet if the Gp actually knew they would have seen you as well - Receptionists ger told that they can't take extras or they must repsect timings etc but often they just don't use common sense !
WTF is happening with the layout I now have a massive gap between the box and the links smileys and this is all cramped plus I still have this layout that I don't like ....What do I have to do to get it back ?

Oh, very nice. We had pijama day which basically equals mnetting and emailing nonstop, whilst ignoring kids, making cakes and ignoring kids a bit more. Detox in the pipeline methinks. Laptop is permanently in the kitchen now.

I really don't like this new look mnet, I guess we have to get used to it.

Thanks for the info. I usually give Nurofen when temp is really high or before going to bed.
Rosa, yes, it's a bit dire here. It looks like we'll be stuck indoors for a while! At the moment they are watching another Maisy dvd... they are talking to Maisy in English, which is is not bad I suppose....

Pippi, sounds like a lovely day at the park

Javier, you can't detox when you are on a diet

Ah rosa, it's gone all weird here too. Threads are fine, but the lay out of my Threads I'm on and Last 15 minutes is all funny, and makes my heads spin.

Yes sorry Camo, didn;t mean to ignore but I was rushed for bedtimes. What a day eh? GP receptionists are often grumpy sods ime. Thankfully it is not mumps.

Don't like the new MN look either.

LOL JB my pj days are exactly the same as yours. What cake did you make? Will make pumpkin pie tomorrow. I do not bring laptop into kitchen or living room anymore, is bad enough as it is.

By the way Damon we have lent out our copies of The Wire, friend has not watched it yet, so not sure when we are going to get it back. They have copies on Lovefilm. Worth owning them though, as they can be rewatched, as very rich.

We are meant to watch a dvd tonight, but I am tired....And busy day tomorrow..

Made fairy cakes and custard.

I think I'll watch a few episodes of Flight of the Conchords series 2 tonight.

I've been making a mental list of all the programs I used to watch as a child/pre teen. It's enormous ... Does anyone remember Supergulp or are you too young

Yes, I remember Supergul, it was on in the evening!!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQZvuLrKcZA supergulp

per te franca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xISskU-iT0E

Good old times! And Il gruppo TNT!!!!!!

sigh sob, le espadrillas!!!

scacciapensieri it was on the swiss tv every saturday at about 7 pm. It was always a nightmare to find the transmission...

no JB you can't detox, MN's the only thing keeping me sane atm!!

I know, rosa, I should have kicked up a fuss, instead I went out huffing and puffing that if my lovely Dr P the GP back home would have seen her no matter what and dr P the pharmacist would have waited in the shop if I needed any meds (that's what they did when I first took ds to italy, got mastitis, went to pharmacy, they sent me to the gp (6.30 at night) came out of there at 8 and pharmacist was still in the shop waiting for me to give me the antib. I understand that we're not in a small village, but a village nonetheless, with a few surgeries and plenty of gps in each so I'm pretty sure the gp-patient ratio is similar. AND it was before 1pm we went there so still morning surgery!

pippi that sounds a nice day.

DS has mainly nurofen as he never liked strawberry flavoured meds, and I find that, like with myself, it's more effective in general. with DD I normally give what's at hand, but gave her a mix last night because her temp was so high.

busy day tomorrow, just hope I get some sleep

(I have a very very small message box here, like 2/3 of normal size and the preview/post buttons have changed again)

Hi everyone, sorry for the long absence- was in Italy and never get time for the computer when I am there. It seems a bit of a waste to go and see family and friends to spend non-waking time doing anything else than chatting etc.

Sorry to hear so many people are unwell. It seems everyone is down with something at the moment- particularly those who come and sit next to me on public transport (bit paranoid about catching bugs at the moment as 7 months pregnant)...

Surprised to hear so many of you thought Lady Oscar was grown up. I used to watch it when I was about 6/7 and in fact remember that my second long book, devoured over the Christmas holidays of prima elementare, was the Lady Oscar book (which, I have just discovered, was a novel written exclusively for the Italian market). The third book I read was, you guessed, perhaps, the second Lady Oscar book.

Maybe I was too young to pick up on the prurient bits- though one lasting influence was that for a good few years (later than I care to admit) the most romantic thing I could imagine doing with whomever I had a crush on at the time was waltzing... Oh yes, and the other lasting impression was that you could be what you wanted, as long as you wanted it enough- so gender not a bar to a male occupation. Protofeminist (word which I am sure does not exist in English, but you get my meaning, I think) at 7! But then again, the first non-fiction grown-up book I read (this time in quinta) was "Dalla parte delle bambine"...

Did anyone like/remember Bia? I loved it (first book, before LO- was very pleased to have learnt to read!) and spent many an afternoon trying to open a window by magic...

The other one I really liked was Mimi- though thinking back there was a definite sadist streak (Mimi being made to dig for the ball wearing chains on her wrists for example ) and the coach was a creep...

Had been toying with the idea of getting the DVDs in Italian for the baby, once it is old enough, but given what you guys have said perhaps I'd better watch them first...

I used to, and still do, sing Bia's song to DD1 with a slight change of letter... I loved it too.

I don't remember how old I was when I watched all those cartoons but yes the main theme I picked up is the independence and the strength of all these girls: like Pippi, Candy, La stella della Senna, LO, even Heidi, etc
It is often about girls achieveing what they want. Which is great as usually movies etc are always about boys doing things and the only way for you to want to do such thing is to wish you were a boy.
I am sure there are many many other layers which I'd love to study and discover but I wouldn't worry about them when my children are young.

hello sui, hope all proceeding well. Bia is one of the first cartoons I remember watching (see all my links ), I'm sure my mum liked it more than me because she used to sing me the song all the time when I was little!

yes, la stella della senna! I saw it when I was in italy in the summer! (poor DS has to listen to me saying this what I was watching when I was little)

lol, pippi, me changing lady to baby for DS, you changing letter for DD1... but hey are great songs! hope you're feeling better