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Sep 5th 2008, 9:16 am
Replies: 9
Views: 709
Posted By lisajhb

Re: What can be carried across the boarder to UK?

Hi cornish! So you are busy packing then? Nightmare!! Anyway you might be pleasantly surprised at what you can find over here, just at tescos and sainsburys. The olive oil we have bought, despite not...
Aug 29th 2008, 8:37 am
Replies: 72
Views: 21,730
Posted By lisajhb

Re: Keep UK bank account open!

Thanks scampicat for the sympathy. As you can imagine we are very cross. The problem was, as far as I can make out, that barclays wanted to close my account because they were suspicious about money...
Aug 28th 2008, 9:52 pm
Replies: 72
Views: 21,730
Posted By lisajhb

Re: Keep UK bank account open!

HHmmm! Barclays. Now dont get me started.:curse: Moved back to uk about 6 weeks ago and have had a few hassles, many of which have been talked about many times; problems with getting a credit score,...
Forum: Italy
Jul 11th 2008, 2:42 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 1,101
Posted By lisajhb

Re: Hello and a question

A few years ago i parked my lil old punto from 1998 in the free parking in pisa right along the arno, for those who know it. came back a few hours later and someone had forced the door and nicked the...
Forum: Italy
Jul 11th 2008, 2:36 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 478
Posted By lisajhb

Re: silvio the go-go grandad!

:rofl:BRILLIANT!:rofl:
Forum: Italy
Jul 11th 2008, 1:34 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 478
Posted By lisajhb

Re: silvio the go-go grandad!

What can i say cornish? we are laughing as we are out of here!!:rofl:
yes, its loopy, but why dont the italians give a monkeys? i reckon that the men are envious and think good on him, and the...
Forum: Italy
Jul 11th 2008, 12:15 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 478
Posted By lisajhb

silvio the go-go grandad!

I found saw this article and it made me laugh!
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/10/italy.television
;)
Jul 11th 2008, 6:10 am
Replies: 69
Views: 5,234
Posted By lisajhb

Re: If I just decided to go....could OH stop me?

I think I would have a breakdown if my OH ran off with my kids like that. I never realised how complicated things could be before I had my kids. Especially when you have your kids in another...
Forum: Italy
Jul 10th 2008, 5:14 am
Replies: 20
Views: 1,204
Posted By lisajhb

Re: Group for anglophone children - looking for ideas

yeah my son loves the peter and jane books. i remember i had them in the 70s at school and it takes me back. anyway i think its the repetition in them that is so satisfying to new readers. even my...
Forum: Italy
Jul 9th 2008, 8:18 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 823
Posted By lisajhb

Re: Possible heresy.....

when i lived i pisa, going back 8 years or so now, we used to go to a great pizzeria near the station. i couldnt tell you the name or the name of the road, but it was near the station on the road...
Jul 9th 2008, 5:15 pm
Replies: 69
Views: 5,234
Posted By lisajhb

Re: If I just decided to go....could OH stop me?

I too have a different surname from my kiddies as in italy when you marry the woman doesnt change her name, but on their travel documants i am stated as their mother. anyway i have never been stopped...
Forum: Italy
Jul 9th 2008, 6:02 am
Replies: 26
Views: 1,723
Posted By lisajhb

Re: Changes for the better

Oh perlease! Get lost and pick a fight somewhere else, surly!:mad:
and Lorna, dont rise to the bait, rise above!!!;)
Jul 8th 2008, 8:12 pm
Replies: 69
Views: 5,234
Posted By lisajhb

Re: If I just decided to go....could OH stop me?

Yes the hague convention could leave you high and dry if the father chose to enforce it. You could well be charged with abduction. my friend ran off from italy with her daughter from her nutter of an...
Forum: Italy
Jul 5th 2008, 8:09 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 1,723
Posted By lisajhb

Re: Changes for the better

Round our way there have suddenly sprung up a few public toilets.
Forum: Italy
Jul 3rd 2008, 5:13 pm
Replies: 92
Views: 5,760
Posted By lisajhb

Re: baby name help needed

wonderful news. well done mummy, and daddy of course! and welcome to the world brando.
:thumbsup:
Forum: Italy
Jul 2nd 2008, 6:59 am
Replies: 22
Views: 1,431
Posted By lisajhb

Re: Mental Health for Children

Yes Patty I second that. Its soooo easy to be influenced by the experts. I accept that there are kids out there who do have problems, and as to why these problems seem to be escalating, well thats...
Forum: Italy
Jun 30th 2008, 6:12 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 1,204
Posted By lisajhb

Re: Group for anglophone children - looking for ideas

yeah just go for it. dont get hung up. its important to start it. it will then evolve and take on a life of its own. have fun!!
Forum: Italy
Jun 30th 2008, 9:11 am
Replies: 20
Views: 1,204
Posted By lisajhb

Re: Group for anglophone children - looking for ideas

Yes for a good few years we had a great group up and running. We started it when the kiddies were babies and it went on till they were school age when things just became too complicated and there...
Forum: Italy
Jun 28th 2008, 4:45 pm
Replies: 22
Views: 7,865
Posted By lisajhb

Re: Builders in Italy

yeah great do!
Forum: Italy
Jun 28th 2008, 4:23 pm
Replies: 22
Views: 7,865
Posted By lisajhb

Re: Builders in Italy

no i am serious girl. and have you looked into courses and places etc? you do know that you can apply for lots of different types of funding and so on dont you? when do you finish the ma? is this all...
Forum: Italy
Jun 28th 2008, 4:06 pm
Replies: 22
Views: 7,865
Posted By lisajhb

Re: Builders in Italy

wow thats really funny. and of course the publishing house published it as he demanded!! LOL!

yes girl, you do that pgce. your enthusiasm will take you a long way and they need teachers like you...
Forum: Italy
Jun 28th 2008, 3:58 pm
Replies: 22
Views: 7,865
Posted By lisajhb

Re: Builders in Italy

what do you mean a boss has changed the chapter?!!yeah you are up to your ears in studying, and i bet its interesting too. sounds it. when you have finished try and get back into it as its well worth...
Forum: Italy
Jun 28th 2008, 3:16 pm
Replies: 22
Views: 7,865
Posted By lisajhb

Re: Builders in Italy

Talking of the mafia, have any of you read roberto savianos book, gomorrah? Am almost at the end, but am reading it in english obviously, as for me to read it in italian would have taken sooo long...
Forum: Italy
Jun 28th 2008, 9:19 am
Replies: 22
Views: 7,865
Posted By lisajhb

Re: Builders in Italy

I agree cornish. It really gets me mad as well. I sometimes think Italians are like naughty children; they try and get out of doing what they have been told to do by the grown up, in this case the...
Forum: Italy
Jun 27th 2008, 7:47 pm
Replies: 22
Views: 7,865
Posted By lisajhb

Re: Builders in Italy

No one gives a monkeys about construction workers. The bossesĀ“ attitude is do you want a job or dont you? All the big construction companies in the south, and many in the north, are mafia controlled...
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