MN Little Italy 18

[DemonBradleySlaysPippi]

Where are you????

Oh, hello popping in, have only skim read the rest of the thread, too cold downstairs for me to hang around...

But no I have not seen Videocracy, cannot wait to.

Did not like Romanzo Criminale, don't thnk Michele Placido is any good. Scamy is probalby a bit of a Fascist (remember him appearing at Miss Italy contest?)

Sibling Rivalry, none here, ds very kind to dd, he is jealous of her though, we talk about it, and he is open about things that make him jealous which I try to work on.

Love Brodo.

Cannot think of anything else.

I am the only one sitting here on a Saturday night??? How tragic!

I think I must have become quite northern in that I love bollito with salsa verde etc. Although some of the cuts of meat that my MIL boils are highly suspicious...especially one called cottechino (sp?) but if I try not to think about it.

So far so good here on the jealousy front DS (nearly 4) absolutely adores DD and tries to make her smile and really interacts well with her at the moment. He nearly got mad when she broke his scaletrix (sp?) race track but I managed to avert his attention somehow!

Not sure about traditional Italian christmas meals - but was v. interested to read about pastina in brodo! We eat it all the time. Everytime I do a roast I boil up the leftover bones. Delicious. I love doing it as I feel very Nigella making stock!

I can't quite believe it but we are due to be getting snow tomorrow. I'll let you know if we make any snowmen

DS1 is also into his trantrums atm. It was a good point about the language thing. I think he finds it much easier to communicate in Italian (he goes to materna from 9-4) he is so tired when he gets home that the last thing he must need is me re-phrasing every English sentence for him! Maybe I will be a bit kinder with him...or maybe he can start watching more English on TV to help him out! It is such hard work though as he starts on the journey home from school and doesn't really stop. I think he burst some blood vessels in his eye the other day from forcing out a tantrum

Gio - very jealous of you with your pizza bianca. Even DS1 remember the pizza bianca from our year living in Rome. I miss it so much . I loved the Roman climate and cusine.

I don't really understand why you posted that thread Pippi, but I don't think it will turn nasty. There will be the have and have nots.

Dp goes out with girl friend occasionally, no problem there for me, and i don't have very close male friends anymore, I do love female company.

lol - must have taken me ages to type my previous post as you have all popped up whilst I was writing! Glad I am not alone. Evening all (even DH is asleep on the sofa next to me!)

Hi Tantik at snow...just wet here and chilly.

And the crostata recipe then? [greedy]

Off now, just popped in for a nose and off upstairs to my hot bed....

Don't know what Videocracy is, Pippi. Will google.

Thanks for that article, franca. Looks interesting.

And thanks for that rec. MM. I will look it up. Is it on video/DVD? Sorry you're still having a tough time with the DDs. And that's rotten news about the job. Bad luck.

I love brodo with little pasta wotsits

It was ore of a poll thing. Like I said I was surprised that not many of my girl friends do that for various reasons. We had a discussion with Dh where I said that I was surpsrised at that as it seems to me a normal thing while he said that I'll find that it is not at all and that most men would not be so happy about it or their girlfriends either.

So as I do not know anybody, except one girl possibly, in Rl who does have such friendship once married/in a serious rel I thought I ask the MN jury to prove my point or dh. I suppose I won't get much of a result.

Maybe I should have word it better. boh.

Hello Tantik and belated congratulations on the arrival of minitantik!

Oh, bum, one poster on the other thread is saying that going out with male friends, unless gay, is asking for trouble! [asking for trouble emoticon]

So is mine Tantik!

Hi Tantik.

Really, off to check. Told you it was getting dodgy! Wonder what the Male MNers think.

Penthe I have done that a good few times.

Penthe how is work?

In my circle of friends is ok for men and women to go out with each other as friends....But of course, in other circles it will mean asking for trouble.

I have done that as well with my phone, it did not survive. [boooooo]

I have a couple of male friends that I see (rarely at the moment - am too busy, etc). I haven't gone out of my way to "go out" with them, IYSWIM - but if we're about we'll have lunch or coffee.

I wonder if anyone will come and call you a whore for having a male friend! It would not surprise me.

Work not too bad, thanks. Quite enjoying it now, though have a stack of marking to do... Urgh.

Actually, my two best male friends are not good examples, as one is gay [no competition emoticon] and the other is in the US so I never see him, plus he is also good friends with DH. I miss him. We used to hang out a lot.

Oh, Gawd, now they want to know if is an old male friend, or a new one. Apparently there is a difference there...

And I have coffee or drinks a lot (rather less so at the moment, boooo, too busy) with male friends/colleagues at work.

I assumed too that some circles of friends might be more opened than others (gawd doesn;t that sounds dodgy ). Do not consider my necessarily open though, just DH being easy going and too lazy to go out with my friends possibly .

Tantik my DD was like that in the first year of materna. Have you tried giving him something to eat as soon as you pick him up, something like a banana that'll raise blood sugar quickly, I found that really helped.

Re sibling rivalry MM we used to have it pretty bad here, DD used to say some pretty usetting things (upsetting for me), and there were frequent fights, shovings, hair pullings etc. Since DS turned 2 and DD turned 5 it has really improvd hugely, they play together a lot and DD can be quite protective of him atthe park with other kids. So there is light at the end of the tunnel.

I would be content just to go out in the first place!

I do the 'food at school pick up' technique as well. Def dramas otherwise.

i go out with male friends/colleagues for lunch or coffee, rarely "out", but that's mostly because i don't go out much!

it's never been a problem, when i met dh i had many male friends, in fact i have more male friends from, say, uni than girls. when one of them is in London for work etc dh perfectly happy to babysit while i go for dinner or drinks.

much as i love female company i do crave male conversation sometimes, prob somethingto do with having 2 brothers- i am more at ease talking about football and politics than handbags. plus because most of my boy-friends know me from uni or work we have much more grownup conversations. [wild generalisation here i know!]

bah.

if anyone cares to comment on this... it;s been bugging me for ages. i am terrified about my life in stepford ch. i am so scared i will lose myself completely

sorry i am a mega-moanie... tantik, hi, don't think i know you, i am occasionally a bit more cheery

Yup I am a two brothers ex tomboy too MM.

hi everyone, had crap w-end, as the antib had really bad side effects so I spent all yesterday on the sofa with major stomach cramps and vomiting air and more air (as I couldn't even keep water down) sorry TMI . and then off to out of hours surgey as I couldn't take it anymore. feeling much better, though it's taken me 2 hours to drink a cup of tea with sugar and lemon (never do!) but can't face food (so in a couple of days I know I'll be stuffing my face as me without food is just wrong)

Pippi, no idea about videocracy, sorry. about male friends, don't go out at all now, but had a very close male friend who I used to go out with a lot alone (same village, came to london soon after I did, though we weren't that close back home). DP never had a problem, and he was my rock while DP took off travelling leaving me behind for 6 months (all arranged before we met). pity I haven't seen him since DS was born or heard from him for 3 years, really since he got married. It wouldn't bother either of us. I hate when people say men and women can't be friends. maybe having a brother makes a difference, but not sure.

off to have a bath now that DD's awake, been in my pj for 3 days