MN Little Italy 18

[DemonBradleySlaysPippi]

Where are you????

Priceless, thanks sputnik !

Yes, good idea about leaving one activity table at mil.

Have been watching bits of smack the pony on youtube . So funny.

Sput- you'll only get a "proper" job teaching if you have a CELTA as no worthwhile language school or otherwise would accept an online or correspondence course (or any course without an element of teaching practice) I got my first job here on the basis of one of those courses, you will find schools who will employ you with nothing, or just one of those, and as Tantik says, they are still useful, in that you get the grammar grounding and the theoretical stuff.

Off to medico for Mr Manflu...I may be gone some time......

Oh dear Bucharest... sympathies on manflu

For all you lucky things living in the UK I've just found www.thefrenchhouse.net/ this]] and fell in love with the green old school lamp.

this, ecco

Thanks - I will try with coscia di maiale affumicata and see what my butcher comes up with! Definitely rolled and boned - I like cooking but I am not a great butcher.

Pippi, this is the recipe I did before - and it worked really well:

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3032/maple-and-mustard-glazed-ham

Buch, sorry to hear re: manflu. DH had it the other day, but an afternoon of watching Doctor Who and X-Files proved to be effective [sceptical]

Rosa, very impressed that you are already sorting out Xmas pressies - perhaps I should go on Amazon and do some shopping too. Lol at your MIL; I suppose you can only laugh at these things (and I am sure your DD will enjoy everything). My MIL is generally good with presents but still comes up with absolute corkers... My DH one year got a ceramic mole (as in the animal) with a pair of scissors. It turned out that the mole was a string holder.

Lol at ceramic mole and scissors.

I'm so bored today. Ds has gone to school, looking forward to seeing his mates. Dd is home. It's grey and wet outside.
I've already tidied up the house. Have perused the internet. mainly searching for furniture I can't afford.
I've decided to start some new cross stitching project.

How useless am I ?

Camo, I hope you are feeling better today.

Ok all you Londoners, I don't suppose any of you know of a fab, and cheap, little B&B anywhere Kensigton tube station?

are cheap and kensington compatible?

If so I want to know as well!!! I'd love to go to london.

Actually scratch that, it's Gloucester Road tube station.

How about cross-stitching The School of Athens? . Should keep you busy.

OK, am back -quicker than expected, the torrential rain has obviously kept people indoors....

An update on her view of swine flu madness....she says no doctor is getting vaccinated, nobody should be being vaccinated unless they have a serious pathology like weakened lung function etc, she has had to go and speak to all the preside of the scuola media and superiore because they have gone bonkers wanting to close schools and she had to make 22 home visits one day last week all to school age kids whose parents were convinced they had swine flu- she said not one of them had anything more than a cold or laryngitis, that for it to be "flu" rather than a cold the febbre needs to be over 39 (even then it might not be flu) and even then she won't give antibiotics of any kind unless there is a secondary infection (which will only present a week or 10 days after the initial febbre phase has passed)

I'm going to try and tell all the mums in the playground that!

I asked her about dp having normal flu vaccine (he asked me to, as he is convinced he gets flu at least once a winter...)She said it's up to him, but again unless you're 75 with only one lung she doesn't advise anyone to have it.

It's for my DH, he is going for boring conference.

You doctor is probably right on a medical level, but if I were to have a flu vaccine it would be because of the sheer difficulty of looking after everyone if I was ill myself, disruption etc. I had flu last year (after DCs had it) and it was awful, DH had to postpone a trip and it took ages to really get over it.

Probably won't do it though

Yes, I had real flu once (which is why I am so snorty at all these people who maintain they have it 3 times every winter) and thought I was dying- couldn't get out of bed for 4 days......

I quite fancy 4 days in bed right now

Yes, it's more or less the same as what our doctor told me, though she told me that with SF the temp is not necessarily that high.
I was tempted to get the normal flu vaccine after being so ill last year for the reasons listed by sputnik.
I was lucky I got it during the xmas holidays, dh and ds were away skiing, me and dd were at inlaws, so she was well looked after, while I couldn't get out of bed.

Yeah, I could cross stitch the school of Athens, it'd probably take me 50 yrs

I remember when you had flu Frnca, it sounded really dreadful.

My DH is having the SF vaccine next week but he has a serious lung weakness (as some of you remember). My gp did say to me to avoid antivral unless really needed. Have not even considered having the vaccine tbh.

thanks for the recipe MM, will def try it even though I hate the smell of boiled meet too!

Absolutely Pippi, I think your dh has to have the vaccine.

I don't mind the smell of boiled meat (I love bollito)... have made so many minestrine with real brodo in the last week, I feel like NIgella

Yuk at bollito!

I think Bollito Misto is among the kings of food (with salsa verde and mostarda di cremona )

(I meant if accompanied by salsa verde and mostarda di cremona. Or mostarda di vicenza)

Is bollito what we call brodo down here? You just chuck the meat into water and leave it for hours?
We have that every Saturday...it's one of dd's faves...in fact, the frozen brodo leftover from last week is what she and I are having at lunchtime today....

I love mostarda but have no idea of the difference between the two. Bollito was a staple at Xmas in our house. My granma was an expert.

Pippi, lol at the biscuit emoticon.

Yes, typical Christmas dish (at least in northern italy. I think more interesting food is eaten in southern italy on the occasion!)

Bucharest, yes. Here with bollito you describe the meat that has been boiled.

i love bollito too!

hello everyone. did anyone notice my self imposed MN strike? well actually i was so sick with headache yesteday all i could do was crawl into bed with a hat and a borsa calda on my head (luckily dh is away).

i got the normal flu vaccine exactly for the reasons listed by sput. but won't bother with sf.

dd1 being an asolulte fucking nightmare, and i am about to give her up for adoption- tantrum after tantrum after tantrum, and i can't stand her when she's like this. i feel like a horrid mother because i keep shouting at her, but she really knows what buttons to push... do dc1 ever stop being jealous of dc2? because i think that's what this is.

sorry am tired and not very articualted. can't wait for dh to come back tonight. want to crawl into bed and feign death for 48 hours.

We have noticed we have noticed and was very impressed MM. Well done.

I have not sibling rivalry here as yet and if there is a jealous one it is DD2 who 'si ficca sempre in mezzo' whenever and wherever Dd1 is concerned and wants to be her. DD1 is very very very very level headed, not thank to my genes I haste to add.

Yes I am sure we had this conversation before by Xmas meal where I come from was, imho, the most boring ever: Crostini pate di pollo, which I hated then; cappelletti in brodo; cappone bollito [vomit] e galantina! WTF?!!

DH and I do a mahooosive rack of lamb instead!!!