MN Little Italy 21

[BananaGio]

Ciao tutte!!

Franca, epi 3 tomorrow, unless I manage to crack dh's resolve- we said we were going to alternate one ngiht the wire, one night reading (and i promised i was going to read "proper" books, not dodgy twilight fanfic).

Respect to you housewifey lot! I really should become a bit more housewifey. I so don't care (and it shows)

Lol @ "anally retentive hour putting DVDs in alphabetical order"...

And how lovely a crodino and ciggy on the balcony, not to mention the gamberoni . I like the sound of your sunday!

Masseuse, wow, I'm impressed by your resolutions

If I moved eveything in this house I would be burried in dust - I am totally ashamed at this place but everywhere where the dd can get to then its passable......
Minirosa is turning me older/madder by the minute she is back to not eating again apart from bread fruit and philadelphia she can throw tanturms at the drop of a hat and will throw herself on the pavement if we try to stop her from going the way she wants ... Thsi to will pass but its taking a bloody long time !
GIo can I come to dinner please?

Thanks for the info Bucharest - so basically children born abroad are automatically British if one of the parents is? It is naughty of them not to specify that, we were quite surprised at just how much it would cost.
Rosa, at the earl grey and hob nobs!

Re. The Wire - i tried watching it for about 10 minutes, a friend kept telling me how amazing it is, but I actually couldn't understand what they were saying

Spaghe, yoou need subtitles on for the first 3-4 episodes, by then you'll be so far gone and O'awight and true that with the best of them

Spag- yes, that's basically it- as long as one of the parents was born in the UK/naturalised/registered as British themselves.
The confusion comes because of the word "registration". Like, dd, who was born in Italy, is Brit by descent, registering her birth at the consulate wouldn't have changed that. If you are by descent, you are by descent, and cannot pass on your c/ship. However, her children, (if born abroad) will have the right to be "registered" as Brits under certain sections of the Nationality Act.
So, you have 2 kinds of registration going on, registration of a birth abroad (under the Births, Marriages and Deaths act ) which just gives you a bit of paper confirming you've been born (like you might not have noticed!) and registration of nationality (under the Nationality Act) which does of course concern c/ship.
You're right, they should make it clear, I've answered loads of queries on MN over the years from people who think registering a birth automatically gets them a passport or British nationality.

Rosa, I feel for you. It's hard. Is she teething again, do you think this can make her off her food? (and btw, bread, philadelfia and fruit is not a bad diet at all, she gets her vits, carbs and calcium )...
As for the tantrums, is she speaking yet? Can they be out of frustration? Or is it just a case of premature terrible twos?
Mind oyu, ds has just thrown a major one, complete with screams and parolacce . He has never tantrummed as a toddler/small child, he started tantrumming last year and it's been escalating now (he is 7.5). I think he wants more "freedom".

Yes, we registered dd's birth in the UK (ds was born in Milan), but she doesn't have a british nationality.

Spaghettina, I struggled to understand the wire even with the subtitles for the first few episodes. I also struggled to recognize the characters and figure out the plot at first . And then, as if by magic, things started to make sense... and now I'm lost and obsessed...

OK guys been to the bank next step April 12th ......
Franca I don't know what it is with her today Nonna made her brodo and pasta ( it was saporito)She wouldn't even try it. There was polpetone - another no go. My pasta in rosso she ate with my fork about 5 pennette and I managed to stab some polpetone on there as well ... Now If I had put penne on her plate she wouldn't touch them. SHe then ate some banana. The thing is I am giving her our food as the books say and I know she will like it as she has eaten it in the past and wanted more but it is almost a principle that she will refuse it!
Gotta go and fare spese.....

So, is it all going smoothly with the bank?

Buono il polpettone, yum!

Rosa I feel your pain! DS is complete pain in bum with food. Used to eat everything and then within a matter of days decided he likes pasta in bianca con parmigiana, ditto riso, minestra and strawberries!And that is it! Screams blue murder if I try and get meat or fish down him!

I'm severly distressed by some results of the elections. I think I need a G&T

Is Bonino in Roma ?----I cannot believe it sorry but anybody who does starvation to get a point accross is off my list. Zaia looks as if he is in for the regionale in Veneto - Lega Nord but that was almost a certain result.
I went to vote I wasn't permitted to vote in the regionale..But I could in the others what sense is that ?

Yes, I'm not fond of Bonino either. But if pdl gets lazio and Piedmont they aer going to be even more shameless than ever.

Oh. I can't find my glasses. Where are they?

I thought you might be Franca, dp is of course, chuckling into his caffe this morning, (apart from the fact that he wants to thump Poli Bortoni for letting Vendola get re-elected by insisting on her own 15 minutes of fame)

Is Bossi really going to be Mayor of Milan??? What does he mean "per il sindaco di Milano per il momento metto nome" (his name????)

Did Bossi really say that ok we sided with Berlusca just for the elections but we will do what we want anyway ?
Waiting to find out who will be the sindaco of venezia now. If Brunetta gets it we are stuffed .......I mean a senatore in Roma coming to be sindaco of Venezia there is more sotto I think.......

Bonino and yer man make me laugh. I quite like some of their policies, but the whole, "OK, I'm going on hunger strike for 3 days till it gets too much then I'll stop" thing is like a toddler tantrum.

Bucharest thats my thoughts exactly - They in theory have some good ideas but as for Panella and his drinking his own wee ..Imagine the press if he got in !
Right got to get act together seeing as rain is forecast for later its nice now so best walk the dd's so that means I better get dressed !

That other man that flits about between Panella and Berlusca irritates the bejaysus out of me as well. His mouth, have you noticed how he e-n-u-n-c-i-a-t-e-s every single word like he's speaking to someone Very Very Thick. (youngish bloke, surname Cape-something, always reminds me of nipples )

PS Sarah somebody (name escapes me) actress in Ryan's Daughter drinks her own wee every morning.
Mind you, she also buried her husband herself in the back garden.
Miles, that's her.

I'm going to move to Puglia or Tuscany, I'm fed up.
Do you know how powerful Formigoni is and his ciellini mates?
And Cota? I mean he is a racist and is just simply orrendo!

(silly spelling)

Have you been looking at all the Tra*i oiks larging it outside the Tribunale recently? When the big Rai bods turn up with their telecamere? Waiting for thingy to show up and shout "Nikki V is having sex with the Pope" behind the newsman's head....

No, I've never seen that

No worries, I'm good at PO, comune etc, I usually manage to win them over being pretending to be ever so kind and a bit naive. It works.

Perhaps that's where I go wrong? I come over all Mnetty-AIBU with them and shout a lot.