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Forum: Italy
Mar 16th 2011, 1:02 am
Replies: 30
Views: 4,590
Posted By indiebird

Re: Info wanted on Tuscan move on children's playgroups and education!!

I must admit, for all my rumbling disagreement I'm still more glad than not we did what we did and put them into state school here despite all the problems. I guess it depends on what you think you...
Forum: Italy
Mar 15th 2011, 11:27 pm
Replies: 66
Views: 8,864
Posted By indiebird

Re: toddler adjusting to new home and new language

My friends are quite strict. The mum speaks Italian and only Italian to her son and the dad speaks only English to him. They thought he was only speaking Italian until I went round (he's 25months)...
Forum: Italy
Mar 15th 2011, 11:20 pm
Replies: 66
Views: 8,864
Posted By indiebird

Re: toddler adjusting to new home and new language

My daughter was about 3 when we moved here. Obviously speaking in English and she picked up and would only speak Italian at the Scuola Materna when she started. The other week she met a boy in the...
Forum: Italy
Mar 15th 2011, 11:10 pm
Replies: 30
Views: 4,590
Posted By indiebird

Re: Info wanted on Tuscan move on children's playgroups and education!!

and tolerance??

I think you'll find kids still celebrate Christmas and Easter in UK schools too... by doing much the same things and maybe Diwalli, Ramadan etc. etc. etc. which helps with the...
Forum: Italy
Mar 15th 2011, 7:56 pm
Replies: 30
Views: 4,590
Posted By indiebird

Re: Info wanted on Tuscan move on children's playgroups and education!!

Christian values and Tolerance?????!!!!! Really????!!!!

I thought they taught: 'Look after yourself and your family and stuff everyone else values' personally...... this seems to be the Italian...
Forum: Al Fresco
Mar 15th 2011, 6:21 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 854
Posted By indiebird

Re: Mobile phone conversation

I must admit it's the same in the UK too. I was stood behind a girl in the queue for a cashpoint in Hastings a few years ago having a very public row with her bloke (most of it was quite petty and...
Forum: Italy
Mar 8th 2011, 6:27 pm
Replies: 1,457
Views: 302,965
Posted By indiebird

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

I can now buy them in the Coop but they are spensive.... :(
Forum: Al Fresco
Mar 5th 2011, 7:10 pm
Replies: 308
Views: 25,204
Posted By indiebird

Re: Whatya Reading??

I have to say that the companies themselves don't send the bills out giving you enough time to pay and when you've got a postman like mine then they often arrive overdue. I'm lucky my OH is quite 'on...
Forum: Al Fresco
Mar 4th 2011, 7:39 pm
Replies: 3,108
Views: 251,209
Posted By indiebird

Re: Moans, groans, grunts and wheezes...

In my town it's the Vigilli who go round giving tickets and only if you're in a blue space or a white space that is time limited.

I must admit that we've been using a little car park near our...
Forum: Al Fresco
Mar 4th 2011, 7:33 pm
Replies: 308
Views: 25,204
Posted By indiebird

Re: Whatya Reading??

Don't ask me about the post Patty.... my current theory is that the postman saves all mine for a day when I'm out so he can chuck it over the fence.... :sneaky:
Forum: Italy
Mar 4th 2011, 6:54 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 286,765
Posted By indiebird

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Welcome to the forum Madmum. How long have you been here?? What I found with my kids was that it took my 8yo about two years to realise he was here and not in the UK but my daughter settled in much...
Forum: Al Fresco
Mar 4th 2011, 7:43 am
Replies: 8,135
Views: 793,448
Posted By indiebird

Re: HAPPY HOUR

Awww Patty. Personally it would be my worst nightmare. I guess there's not much choice though is there.... :-(
Forum: Al Fresco
Feb 27th 2011, 5:49 pm
Replies: 8,135
Views: 793,448
Posted By indiebird

Re: HAPPY HOUR

I just feel my kid's forehead and look into their eyes to see if I think they're lying.... has always served me well.... Testa, maybe you've been in Italy too long..... :lol:
Forum: Italy
Feb 26th 2011, 2:37 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 286,765
Posted By indiebird

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Nope. Not feeling any better. Seems like they fork out a bit of cash for a pretty good system... I fork out cash here for lots of things (over €12 a day for the sort of lunch that I wouldn't fork...
Forum: Al Fresco
Feb 26th 2011, 12:59 am
Replies: 308
Views: 25,204
Posted By indiebird

Re: Whatya Reading??

You must now become one with the highway code Patty.... I often wonder how many Italians actually read it... I was nearly driven into the middle of the roundabout again last night as a car came all...
Forum: Italy
Feb 26th 2011, 12:51 am
Replies: 42
Views: 4,509
Posted By indiebird

Re: ITALY IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH

I was going to say fill up your fruitbowl... or get carrots and peppers and cut them up and keep in a big box in the fridge for those times when you're starving (before your takeaway pizza arrives)...
Forum: Italy
Feb 26th 2011, 12:47 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 286,765
Posted By indiebird

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

:eek::eek: Somedays I wonder if they remember they are kids...... :sneaky:
Forum: Italy
Feb 26th 2011, 12:46 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 286,765
Posted By indiebird

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Dina you are soooooo right. I just look upon it as something 'extra' my kids learn at school....

I do worry a lot about the validity of studies though based on this kind of favouritism. I don't...
Forum: Al Fresco
Feb 25th 2011, 11:36 pm
Replies: 3,108
Views: 251,209
Posted By indiebird

Re: Moans, groans, grunts and wheezes...

Oh Patty!! How crappy!! I hope it's not 'inlaw' stuff that's stopping you?? :sneaky: That's even worse than kids stuff.... I would defo recommend a few bevvies... always works for me....
Forum: Al Fresco
Feb 25th 2011, 11:34 pm
Replies: 308
Views: 25,204
Posted By indiebird

Re: Whatya Reading??

I'm glad you figured it out Dina.... I've still not committed to a kindle or anything else... I just ordered a load of books from Amazon......
Forum: Al Fresco
Feb 25th 2011, 11:31 pm
Replies: 3,108
Views: 251,209
Posted By indiebird

Re: Moans, groans, grunts and wheezes...

Bloody hell Patty!! What a nightmare! I must admit that a facebook friend who lives down in Genova is having to do this too as she has an American licence. Got no suggestions but I do feel really...
Forum: Italy
Feb 25th 2011, 8:48 pm
Replies: 42
Views: 4,509
Posted By indiebird

Re: ITALY IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH

I eat lots of veg here! The veg is generally better here than in the UK. I buy a lot in the market. It could be having an effect on your skin or it might be just the changing of the seasons. I really...
Forum: Al Fresco
Feb 25th 2011, 1:01 am
Replies: 44
Views: 12,570
Posted By indiebird

Re: Flying Question

They have labradors and German Shepherds at Torino.
Forum: Al Fresco
Feb 25th 2011, 12:25 am
Replies: 129
Views: 23,798
Posted By indiebird

Re: Italian 'customer service'

It's really annoying isn't it!!?? I must admit in Venice the difference was shocking and I guess in Flo too they expect you to be a tourist.... but in my little backwater I was just stunned. I won't...
Forum: Al Fresco
Feb 24th 2011, 11:11 pm
Replies: 129
Views: 23,798
Posted By indiebird

Re: Italian 'customer service'

I must admit this has happened to me at my local bar when it changed hands. I almost got totally fleeced over a couple of cones of ice-cream for the kids. When I pointed out the price on the board...
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