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Expensive schooling??

The cashpoints/atms/bancomats that I use are presenting a happy little message regarding finance for the purchase of school text books at the moment. What!? You need a loan to buy schoolbooks? Wow. How expensive are the things, I am now wondering. They must be quite pricey if you need to take a bank loan out […]

Grumpy little boy

Our little one seems to have been getting more and more grumpy recently. Tantrums over silly little things such as using his plate for crisps, or not letting him wipe his own bottom. Trivial stuff, if you are an adult, but not if you are 3.5 years of age. We’ve tried to establish what is […]

Islands in the stream – Italian bureaucracy

Somewhere out on the WWW I read about an Italian guy who had had a child, but wanted to avoid getting involved in all the bureaucracy which follows. After my experiences of Italian bureaucracy, I can relate to his feelings.

Bi-lingual???

My son is making some progress with English but still tends to use Italian as the predominant language.  As I may have mentioned before, he understands English very well, however he continues to demand to see DVD’s in Italian.  This is probably because he understands more Italian than English and is not a surprise seeing […]

Growing up. Sort of.

Our three year old has now officially left his day nursery/creche and will start nursery school in September.  As I think I mentioned before, he used to attend a private and expensive creche before we were able to get him in to the local authority run equivalent. There was no comparison between the two set-ups.  […]

Cakes….at a price

Pictured here are the two cakes we got for our son’s belated third birthday party.

I beat the taxi!

Yes, it's true. My other half and baby set off from hospital, after an abortive attempt at a magnetic resonance scan (our wee one suddenly developed a cold), in a taxi. I was aboard my trusty new bike (I had expected the bairn to be in hospital for at least one more day). I passed […]

Positive feelings

First, we took our little one to a specialist yesterday and we both came away feeling relieved. Yes, his problem is potentially dangerous, but then so is a cold if it becomes pneumonia and as long as his problem can be kept under control, he'll be fine. This is great news, but I am a […]

Strange fixations

Now, I don't know if this is a consequence of our tot having been used as a pin cushion while being in hospital, but he seems to have become even more reluctant to admit that he has filled his nappy (diaper) with smelly stuff. The other day he threw a real tantrum over being changed, […]