MN Little Italy 19

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Hello, welcome, benvenuti

AG's thread made it into Topic Of The Day!!!

Oh wow! That's successful !!! I started a thread yesterday night and only one person replied

I can't believe people questioning the legitimacy of a thread, just because a subject has already been discussed!!!

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH! I feel blessed by the Mnest stars.

It is amazing that that poster expects me to search archives, they do take the whole thing a tad tooooo seriously. Surely one starts threads just to have a chat, clear up one's muddled head, seek company,....what the hell!

Yes! I read it all as I thought it was quite interesting... Did get a bit arsey at some point.

Anyway - I need some advice from fashionable Milan people... My DH wants to get a pressie for his secretary in Milan, who is 38 years old and great at her job (and ugly, or so he says ). He wants to give her a bottle of champagne, as he would do in London. Now here in the provinces giving alcohol to your female secretary would not be seen as appropriate necessarily - but what about in the Milano da bere? Do you think that would that be OK?

Ah, and no calendar here either - too early. Am trying to conveniently forget Santa Lucia too...

I think a bottle of champagne is acceptable, though my aunt suggest a good bottle of Italian spumante or something more local (or good box of marron glace, I suggest Galli in corso di porta romana for those)

AG thanks for moral support. . Off to bloody swimming pool.

Yes, a good bottle of Prosecco can be as good as champagne, not that I'm a fashionable Milan person.

Fgs they are teaching my DD about £s and pence, ok they follow the British curriculum, but surely euros would make more sense?

BTW for anyone needing to do calendars in the UK, Snapfish are doing 33% off, til 2nd Dec

lol sputnik re the pences and the £££ .

Sput, is dd at a Brit school then? Sorry, I missed that....

What is with this calendar with pics obsession? Pippi was talking about it and made me realise nobody I know around here (they do though diy advent calendars which i think very cute, i forgot to even get one this year...) does it, is it something that has been going on for ages, or is it new? I do use photobox to print, but I feel I am out of the loop (oh, my, is this another EB crockery moment????)
Back later, dd screaming.

Yes, she is

No, I've never done a calendar with the dc's pics, but it is quite a popular gift. They do it at dd's school to raise money, for instance.

Basically it is a simple solution to the xmas presents for grandmas/great grandmas problem! I don't make one for us, that would be overkill, although I was thinking I should have some photos of the DCs around really. I have done it the last 4 years, I think. I also do fridge magnets as sort of "extras", and for me, as I like the idea of accumulating them over the years.

I quite enjoy making them too, it gives me an excuse to go through the year's photos, there are some lovely ones.

I like to go through old pictures

I forgot to answer, yes it's a British school. I am really happy we made that choice as she loves it.

In fact I am feeling all sentimental now as a result of looking at so many pics of DCs today.

Yes AG calendars with pics of the dds for nonni and MIL and uncles. Saves on ideas and they all want them as they do not see them often and I am a cow for never sending pictures during the year. Not for us no!

Sputnik I will check Snapfish, can I be botehred to do them all over again [fed up emoticon]. I have them ready with photobox but bastards have got no offer at the moment so I am waiting.

We have advent calendars as well.

Oh, ho fatto una figuraccia today at the swimming pool with another mum. Where did I become an overopinionated cow? I blame mn

Was she giving her DCs fruit shoots or something? Or tutoring?

tell us!

Primary school angst. Apparently there is a state school which is all the rage (in the city center). I asked what was special about it, if it was just that because of its central location only rich children attended it

pst AG and MM: have just started watching episode 1 of season 2. How figo is Mc Nulty with a colbacco???

What's a colbacco?

wait for epi 2 (or 3?), then we'll talk about how figo is mcnulty SENZA colbacco

I used to live in front of Galli! still hate marron glace though.

off to check AG's thread and then watch some crappy telly. see you alter, unless dd2 wakes up,,, she had 40 di febbre last night and had 38 all day...