duffer

I think it's the heat, I'm sure I'll be back to my good grumpy self shortly.

Lorna at Vicenza

In all seriousness, maybe I did have to slow down my "single British life" kind of attitude with kids here etc. Maybe I was getting older. Maybe I wasn't romancing the UK as much as I used to. Maybe I was expecting some great, great times when I went back with family and friends that didn't turn out to be so great. Maybe I expected too much on my return that didn't always happen.
Maybe a big part of me has grown up here and I do have great friends here. Maybe I should just live from day to day and not romance one country or the other. That's what I generally do.

Definitely a part of me is happy to live here knowing I haven't had to give up or renounce every little bit of what I like or who I am. If I had to live a 100% Italian life with shitty t-bags and no bacon and no trips back and no Cadbury's and no cheap supplies and no English conversation or documentaries or programmes or anything ...... I'd be a sadder person.

Even 20 years ago when there was no internet or cheap flights and phones: I still went home, drank cider, had tea, had bacon, stuffed a suitcases full of t-bags and medicine and rolls of film and tapes and CDs and videos full of English comedy.

mikelincs

Just seen, in our local Tesco, that Walkers have increased the amount of crisps in the flavoured 6 packs by 30% per bag.. mm more crisps then..

Lorna at Vicenza

**** off !

mikelincs

Ohhh Get you...

Lorna at Vicenza

I'll take it back if you can give me some salt & vinegar.

Isakat

DD was pointing to something in the Tesco today and when i looked I saw the most enormous bag with so many varieties of Walkers crisps, HALF price!!!

Shame they crumble in the the suitcase...

Pecora Nera

Crumbled or not they are still Walkers Crisps.

Anyone visiting here from the UK is obliged to bring at least one multi pack.

HADENOUGHPIZZA

It been a very slow day in the office and this has made all the difference !


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...estic-cat.html

Patty

I think the best bit Hadenough were the comments at the end - some of them were just hilarious.

Lorna at Vicenza

What kind of Dr do you go to see for backache?

Is it an osteopath?

Chloe has complained a lot of having backache. I thought it might have been connected to the fact that she started basketball last September, but she has complained this summer too and basketball finished at the end of June. More than what I think a child should be complaining. Sometimes she has even got out of bed, stretched and siad "my back hurts again".

She had a full medical at the hospital in "medicina per lo sport" for basketball matches, tournaments and insurance purposes. She mentioned the backache then and the Dr said she had a very slight scoliosis but that she is also growing very quickly, hormonal changes, periods about to start etc. and all things combined could give her some discomfort. She gave Chloe a couple of stretching exercises to do at home and told me to get her checked out if she carried on complaining.

I'm going to go to her peadiatrician and ask for an impegnativa to take her to a specialist. I just wondered if that specialist would be an osteopata.

I looked at her medical record book to get the surgery number. She hasn't been to her Dr since 2006 ! She normally has the consitution of a bull.

37100

My youngest goes to an osteopath. He thinks it the best think since sliced bread. In your case, as Chloe is still growing, I'd get her checked out with a pediatric/back orthopediac first if possible.

Lorna at Vicenza

Thanks. I'll ask the Dr if there is someone at the hospital.

I just want somebody to tell me if going back to basketball is a good thing or a bad thing. I know sport is generally considered a good thing, but I wouldn't want to send her back without knowing if it could cause more pain or not.

MarkRD

I don't want to stick my neck out (pun intended) too much but I reckon mine started having problems of that kind when she started playing basketball .. mind you it does all sort of coincide with growing up, development etc so not sure only basketball was to blame.

HADENOUGHPIZZA

Joke of the Day


It takes an Italian man…
It takes an Italian Man to make a Woman feel like a Woman…
On a recent transatlantic flight, a plane passes through a severe storm. The
turbulence is awful, and things go from bad to worse when one wing is struck
by lightning. One woman in particular loses it.
Screaming, she stands up in the front of the plane. “I’m too young to die,” she
wails. Then she yells, “Well, if I’m going to die, I want my last minutes on
earth to be memorable! Is there ANYONE on this plane who can make me feel like
a WOMAN?”
For a moment there is silence.. Everyone has forgotten their own peril. They all
stared, riveted, at the desperate woman in the front of the plane.
Then an Italian man stands up in the rear of the plane. He is gorgeous : tall,
well built, with dark brown hair and hazel eyes.
He starts to walk slowly up the aisle,unbuttoning his shirt…..one button at a
time. ……
No one moves. ……
He removes his shirt. …….
Muscles ripple across his chest. …..
She gasps………..
He whispers: …….
“Iron this, and get me something to eat….”