Wednesday, September 6, 2006

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Dear, and above all "care", Grace fans, is a bit 'that you do not feel, but the family we had to do with the renovation of the bathrooms.

was a couple of years that Grace did go crawling sensations are gaining momentum 'close by "This flush works badly" to "not run well the bathwater", to "The towel and is' broken. He was old, and ending with "Look, do not get more 'hot water." The intention was obvious.
The first day of spring, on time, take the first phone call with the architect.
The day Grace and the children leave for the sea, beginning in July, as soon as they come, they enter the workers and I rip the house.
powder everywhere, all my records incellofanati, and especially the inability 'to do anything you do in the bathroom.
"So, sorry, pipi 'going to do in the office, and the shower when you go to swim in the pool is not it?"
course. What is the problem.

After a month of agony, distress and teeth cleaned in the sink kitchen, I also for earned vacation, reaching Grace and the children in Salento.

rented house, sea view, nice atmosphere, friends, rest.
took the necessary information, Grace's first book of Gallipoli, the restaurant is famous for the photo depicting D'Alema and Buttiglione to the table a few years ago, and a few nights later, the restaurant frequented by celebrities of Otranto 'local type Ennio Capasa, designer Costume National.

As the beach is popular choice, it is said, by Diego Abatantuono, Antonio Ricci, Bisio and Hunziker. However ever seen, but who cares.

But the real new friend of Grace and 'the girl who runs the kiosk near the beach sarongs. Li 'Grace finds his Nirvana the average over a sarong every 3 days. This is because it 'a beautiful pink, we use this as a tablecloth, that the gift to my friend for her birthday, and this' to my sister who comes to visit us. On the tenth day I hear the girl in the booth and told her husband: "By now we've paid off the rent of the house."

E 'in September, we're back in town. The work of the bathrooms were abruptly interrupted by the holidays of all (the architect and 'still at sea). We have only one toilet and the tub partially functional. Still no shower, bidet, and sink. In the kitchen, living toothpaste and detergent, toothbrushes and potato peelings, towels and rags. As yet, who knows.

Au \u200b\u200brevoir.

Ah, thanks to Grace for the tip.

Saturday, June 3, 2006

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Grace in concert

The relationship between Grace and rock concerts and ', like that between Grace and other things, so unusual as clear.
In short: the rock concert for Grace is not 'nothing but a prologue to the dinner at the restaurant.

not that worth a gig the other, for charity '. In principle, Grace prefers occasions with a high level "rock chic", those shows, then, the band "alternative" that they play in Los Angeles or London in the audience were people like Jennifer Aniston and Orlando Bloom (Strokes, Oasis, Red Hot Chili Peppers), or "big" full-blown, from Madonna to Depeche Mode, or of his childhood idols like Sinatra and Duran Duran.
His absolute favorite is Pearl Jam.

In any of these concerts, however, Grace resists for about half 'show, then starts to say' Okay ', are we going? ".
Knowing my obvious reluctance with regard to the premature abandonment of the concerts that I like, now plays in advance. Before the show begins to throw them 'phrases like "I have already' hunger ', after the first 20 minutes presses regularly with questions like" How far is it? ", And at the stroke of three-quarters of an hour threat" Look the restaurant closes. "
E 'managed to listen to me Jumpin 'Jack Flash in the distance as we were leaving prematurely from the concert by the Rolling Stones, and the only one that e' and liked it until the end 'was to Kylie Minogue,' cause we knew that there would be an aftershow party with dinner included them ', the same place.

Taking advantage of the arrival in Italy of the band's most successful ever in the 70s, the Eagles, for more 'in the splendid setting of the Arena, I was pretty well organized for the first real concert not only "old" in terms of songs, but also in the way of benefiting from them.
No more hit and run, the miles run during the night to go home, the sandwich and coke for soothe the pangs of hunger, the concerts seen standing queues to get in, the hours spent waiting for the start sitting on the ground. We have already 'given. Now we enjoy the
. Here are the Ten Commandments for a true concert of old. "

1) Children placed by friends
2) Hotel booked
3) Other 2 pairs of friends, also figliesenti, merged from Rome and Amsterdam.
4) Morning arrival in Verona and lunch with friends at Trattoria Vecio Mulin, long-Adige, great lobster and other varieties' of fish.
5) nap at the hotel.
6) in Shopping center, between the shops and stalls of Piazza delle Erbe.
7) Entrance Arena 15 minutes before the concert. Tickets numbered poltronissima central line 7 near the stage, red velvet chairs
8) Restaurant booked for after-concert, 5 minutes walk from the Arena, "Antica Bottega del Vino", with offices in Verona and New York.
9) night in a comfortable hotel with no children from school to accompany
10) Convenient starting in the morning after a sumptuous breakfast.

Yet, despite this enviable scenario, during a highly anticipated concert, sull'inconfondibile attack "Hotel California", I felt Grace beside me, looking at his watch and said "... madonna later. You say, we begin to go So 'we avoid the crush at the exit? ".

For once, I pretended not to hear.

Tuesday, May 9, 2006

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Long live the hut

family visits during the weekend, one of the key things for Grace and 'stop autogrill right. Woe to choose the wrong one, if only for the trivial and entirely secondary in need 'to make gasoline. You have to stop those beautiful.

The first feature is' purely aesthetic: no bridge to the motorway services, those who pass over the highway, too large, dispersed and uncomfortable with the stairs. No small ones, square, certainly squalid, unprotected, and the bathrooms filthy, and not the sub-brands, such as "Motogrill. The first feature
dell'autogrill to hang out and 'that it is "a hut", ie' with a sloping roof. And 'more' elegant, she says. Even children now, when we pass to one of me screaming in my ears while I drive "hut !!!".

sure of mine, after several visits, last Saturday I stopped at the junction of the first motorway services in Bologna, Milan and coming from the direction of the A14. I knew that they had just renovated, and I made a great impression.
It is a 'My chef "with self-service restaurant, pizzeria, small supermarket, new bathrooms, clean (for a motorway and' sensational), just redone with colorful walls and even a corner with coin-operated washer and dryer! A real cool, friends.

and Grace 'gone through the corridors, leaving to the cashier with the children asking for candy and ice cream. After a few minutes and
'triumphant reappearance with two packs of tarallini, two of Nutella Snacks, one of limoncello, wholemeal biscuits, an Easter egg out of time and then in super-range, paper towels, mineral water, and' latest issue of "Chi" ("... to see if 'the true story of Scamarcio and Golino!").
Children, meanwhile, were attracted by the model of motorcycle racing and puppets of the Power Rangers.

"Look, they also have fresh milk!" cheers Grace. "Wow this My Chef. I want to stay here forever. On the way back we spending. "

" But, really, we are returning in the opposite direction

...", "But there 'the subway!"

right. There' s the underpass.'s My Chef Fitting Bologna San Lazzaro and now 'of his kingdom on the road. "The next trip to the lighthouse' such as those www.mod.biz and will 'an entrance bell' sticker that says" Approved by livingwithgrace. blogspot.com.

Friday, April 28, 2006

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Marsa Alam, Egypt. Great location next to the crystal Red Sea coral reefs populated by colorful fish fantastic, rooms directly on a sandy beach, swimming pools, tennis courts, bar on the beach, grassland English incredibly green and manicured with luxuriant hedges of fresh flowers in the desert, and many other amenities'.
Among the nice fellow travelers of various types, eta 'and backgrounds, they stood one: the plastic surgeon.

For a week the poor (oh my God, poor ...) and 'umbrella from attorinato sciuri was in shorts who asked him a thousand questions, to which the patient responded (for once the patient was him) sciorniando techniques, chilling details splatter, psychological consequences, especially prices of all types of cosmetic surgery: just "filler" of botox under his eyes, until the total drainage of all types of stomach, by pulling up your ass you drop your calves, not to mention 'adjustment of cheeks, noses and lips, to the more 'classical operations, the Milan-San Remo rejuvenation of the female, the Fifth of Beethoven's scalpel, the sex appeal of Stairway to Heaven: the new roof.

The topic was facilitated by the presence in Egypt of a group holidays healthy carrier of boobs a few months before the surgeon said, reluctantly became the living mannequin to which other related, holding her up to their husbands: "Did you see the Laura's boobs? Have you seen how they are on? Belle true? Five thousand euro. A tit. "

The surgeon told me himself that he can figure out what kind of couple in front of the first date. If he has the face of that, just out, will tell you ', "forget it, it is not doing anything', and 'her husband. If you have the enthusiastic expression, and adds things like "but, yeah, come on, already 'well you're doing that ...", and' lover.

Grace would love the new boobs do not already 'to make themselves more' attractive to her husband (do not worry, the whole repertoire of "but if you're so beautiful 'and derived from the time I played), but only in order to buy some summer dresses that with that kind of tit WOULD BE at best. I mean he does not want a breast more 'prosperous, just want a hanger.
€ 10,000 for a hanger.

The discovery of the week, Grace, and 'was an artificial mini-souk shops, which immediately 'became his favorite and everyday. Accomplice to the infectious attitude of great concord between people who have local shopkeepers, and Grace 'became the best friend Abdul, who sells rings and pendants, Zaccaria, which sells scented oils and essences, Hassan, sandals and pashminas, Ahmed, pendants , bracelets and stuff like that.
Zaccaria, the more 'Paraculo of all, sets out a list of targeted therapeutic oils to each illness is typical of Italian sciuri: one for the neck, one for the airframe, bronchitis, cagotto, headache, menstrual pain , insect bites, sunburn. Grace has trimmed a little bottle of hair oil made especially for that very kind of them hair ', in addition to seeds of cardamom, cumin, myrrh (the gold and frankincense and myrrh) and other gadgets peddled useless for cooking ingredients or air fresheners.
"What are you doing with cardamom, sorry?" "Risotto." Ah, yes, the famous rice with cardamom.
But the masterpiece 'was "The Rose of Egypt." That is not 'a rose, and' a piece of gnarled branches and dried, that the wise Zechariah recommended to put in water for three days, changing the water every day, and we would see sprout the wonderful fragrant white flowers that last one year.
Back in Italy, put the rose in water, after a week no flowers, wood rot, stink, threw away the rose. After purchasing

of shoes, shirts and various trinkets which culminated in a game of hand-colored glass cups, loooong nice, but too small for you, 'too large for the vodka, in fact unnecessary, Grace gave the best of' buying a pack most Italian of sunscreen. Not sure why 'its stock was sold out (the kids are back in Italy for white overprotection spread to 80 layers), but because', she said, "In Italy this format is not."

Luckily you and 'realized too late that boarding the return flight at the airport stood out the insidious threat boutique "Golden Pyramid Jewellery!.

"Look, the rings are beautiful!"

"Honey, are embarking on, it's up to us, hurry up!"

fiuu ....

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

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Egypt Egypt' s Spring Break

I had planned a nice post to narrate the exploits of Grace struggling with the holiday Egyptian queen of shops selling trinkets and around the desert by camel. Then yesterday came the news of the terrorist attacks in Dahab, and I passed the desire. We returned from three days to a land where there are only rocks, sand and poverty, but where tourism is growing at the edge of that wonderful sea manages to make so many families live better.
We were in Marsa Alam, a lot more 'to the south of Dahab. In a place built with great taste and in just 6 months of 2000 workers. Ants as fast as those who built the pyramids thousands of years ago. Labour picked up among young gi Aswan, many of whom are currently employed them 'and similar places. The average salary of a worker is 12 € per month. A guy who works the front desk, in a situation of extreme privilege only for being in a clean, air conditioned and neatly dressed, he told us that comes to about € 40 per month. With one quarter of the Egyptian pound, equivalent to 4 euro cents, a family can buy 5 loaves. When the two leave the euro as a tip you have solved a week.
Hassan, the boy who served us tea 'in the tent under the stars, he greeted us smiling because he went home to find his wife and child born to 20 days, which can eat and have a house because he prepares you 'to tourists, a six-hour drive from his home.
bombs in Dahab, Sharm El Sheik as those of last year, may result in serious crisis in this system. Where we went we were almost all Italians and Germans. A holiday in Dahab were mainly Egyptians. Is to say that we should not let fear win, that in Egypt you have to go anyway, because hotels and villages everything is checked (yesterday's bombs were put in a market in the center of a country) and why on the roads Large-capacity is a checkpoint every 500 meters. But if the massacre of Dahab had happened a few days before our departure, I wonder if we would be leaving. For the moment there is only silence and prayer for those who was on vacation yesterday and now suddenly is among the thousands of stars in that sky. Salaam Alaykum.

Thursday, April 13, 2006

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Grace has a problem: the rental of children are too long. Between elections, Easter, April 25 bridges and several Italian children between the boxes are there nearly a month.
But unlike the majority of Italian mothers, of everything that 'notice when dates are approaching, Grace had planned everything months ago, calendar in hand, and you and' organized. Of course without telling me.

The days before the election date was a carousel of activities' aimed at the small sbolognare left and right in time for use by his pilates and stretching: Ale to play with a friend, Henry swam accompanied by the mother of another, a lunch with a friend, the other party to a girlfriend. Of course, Grace is not 'think it's advantage, and gladly returned the courtesy, and then I had to bring all to soccer practice and then make up 5 to eat ice cream.

Although Easter I would have only a day off, Grace has booked a week in the Egyptian seaside resort where they are already 'gone with our friends. "It 's beautiful, beautiful to look at this picture, and then it does not cost much, give me about the check that I have to go to the agency to pay." The return and
'provided the right day before the long weekend of April 25, Grace decided to go to sea in Liguria. He arrives and immediately starts again for another 4 days, and the problem of children and 'resolved. Oh, we could not let them stay mica to breathe the air of Milan, these poor people.

Tomorrow morning we leave at dawn. Grace called me to tell me now that I have to go get the kids to the park while you poor thing has to stop to pack. Then, given its concentration on the question suitcases, I'll 'pick up the laundry and also fix the mess left by workers who, today, I finally came to fit the shoe antique wood carved and painted by hand we have been waiting a year, but that was late in coming. Thailand.

We feel after Egypt, friends.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

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did not have to go to lunch?

Grace calls me in the office, at 11. "I'm at the bar of the gym. I just finished Pilates, madonna like I'm tired! And what are you doing?" "I'm working, really." "Ah, look, if you like the macrobiotic lunch together?" "Of course, love." "Ok, pero 'arrival at noon and a half to go now that I have already' hunger." '.... ".... Should be ok, I'll wait. "

at the scheduled calls me and tells me to go below the office. But instead of finding the door I see in the distance that beckons me to go to her. E 'in front of the window of a furniture shop in luxury. I pass by every morning for years but not I never thought to go in 'cause it looks like a place too expensive.

"Look at this beautiful sofa! We go in?" "How would we go in, what do you care, come on, did not have to go to lunch?" "Where do you enter?" "... And I know ..." Din Don! the relentless sound of the door bell hi tech. "I help you?". The diligent and committed bespectacled 'already' there ', and within minutes the entire show at Grace calatogo sofas and the entire sample of tissue. Meanwhile, Grace asks questions I absolutely do not idle waiting for either of them the answer, rather, encompasses the answer to the question itself, but the whole procedure is for the illusion of having me involved in the purchasing decision. "Sit down, try it, comfortable, no? And this fabric? Best this or that? This, no? And the length? We need more 'or longer' short for you? More 'long, is better. You say, we put it under the picture in the house? Yes, under the picture is good. "

I stay 'daze without understanding what's going on up to three sentences for solutions, given in rapid succession:

1)" It' s just like you wanted "
2) (pronounced low voice) "Look at that price and 'good!"
3) "We made a deal!"

advance from my credit card and home delivery in 3 days. Done. I went from' office thinking about going to lunch and I bought a new sofa.
And all and 'success in fifteen minutes flat.

the macrobiotic restaurant, after showing me the jacket that she had bought just before our meeting, Grace, Strong learned of the cooking course macrobiotoca who are following every Wednesday 'evening, complaining of disequilibrium protein menu'. "Now's where I'm going to ask, me, here, the protein?" "Please, can you tell it to him one day when there are? I'll come here often .....".

exit, while we're about to say goodbye, I say "Oh, I have no more 'tickets' s bus. You have one for me?" ".... Not really ... I've finished this morning, but we can buy the newspaper ... " "No, it's well, 'patience, I a taxi, hello ".

Tuesday, January 3, 2006

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Christmas Holidays in Courmayeur.
" Curma ", as they say in Milan.
Accommodation in residence Pre 'St. Didier, where usually down when the House of Savoy reigned supreme.

morning departure of December 25. Grace and 'care to order by phone at the most' expensive food in the area west of Milan, a sumptuous "Christmas dinner" for the whole family. A huge box which alone fills three quarters of the boot, with all the dishes carefully packed, I'm going to collect and pay before departure, "'cause you would not want to put me to cook when we get in the mountains, and the Christmas lunch at the restaurant is sad." As blame her.

the menu: scallops with champagne and prawns
real baked with herbs.
the three organic cereals soup with saffron, leeks and shellfish soup
capon with braised cappelletti Mantuan
fillets of sea bream
the Ligurian Sea bass fillets in a sauce of porcini mushrooms sautéed Mandarin

mashed potatoes and asparagus.

In the days before I booked and already 'paid online with a week of ski school for both children.
Grace decides not to be denied the opportunity 'to ski, but on alternate days, of course with master suite. This diabolical solution allows you to show off her put on the ski slopes, without denying the whole day of shopping while I and the children swarm. In

wicked lottery ski instructors, the children and not 'touched, unfortunately, the same delightful instructor Victoria "Posh" Beckham I've seen darting about Pra' Neyron, it 'that sort of Elisabetta Canalis met in the Alps to the ski lift, but "The Iris", which with all due respect, I remember my Aunt Lella.
On the other hand, Grace is not 'same as happened to the young master William England' s already 'spotted last year, but Piero, sixty-year veteran of the instructors, roly-poly, paternal and a tooth for decades that their usual Gauloises without filter.

Days Grace have resort as "fil rouge" the perennial questioning of the foundations of every single practice connected with sport in question.
The cable car: "They should not let in people. It is too tight."
boots: "Why 'make them so' hard? Hurt!"
The tracks: "A Sauze D'Oulx tracks are more 'beautiful."
The chair: "You see that old!"
Clothing: "Should I buy the shirt for me too" technical "as the ones I bought for the children."
The artificial snow, "Why 'do not shoot better, and here' s all frozen." About

snow in a snowstorm, watching the flakes came down against the light on 'orange teaches a bar, Alexander said, "Look Daddy, the artificial snow."
"No, love, and this 'natural snow
...". "So, why' and 'orange?".

When Grace is not with us on the slopes, his days are permeated by a constant' of reservations and cancellations related to the "beauty" personal. Book baths, move the massage, sauna and remove the wax rebook canceled previously.
Other than personal trainer, for her it would take the "Personal booker and eraser.

Within days, Grace becomes the queen Via Roma, the "progress" most of the boutiques 'exclusive Curma, and the best score of those grills that flaunting names like "Les Gourmandises", or "The old pasta factory of Gabriella" already declared' departure in exorbitant prices.

One day, returning from shopping, she says, "Look, your credit card does not work. I could not pay. Do you think that the kind Gabriella, told me that you can go when you want." Of course, the card has reached the monthly spending limit, so I'm going to pay the cash account by gentle Gabriella ("Ah, she 's husband of Mrs Grace ...").

In New Year, while all the "sciuri" crowd the gastronomy of the course in view of the dinners at Grace can be a double true professional: Gabriella comes from, take the number 38 while they are serving the '84, which calculates the approximate time We want to serve 54 customers can go to the hairdresser and back in an hour deli and a half later, exactly as they are calling the number before it. Chapeau.

Activities 'shopping mainly concerned with micro-targeted purchases: cups homemade, hand-embroidered oven mitts, socks for children in the more' exclusive store of socks for children, when a day comes the announcement:

"I saw a bag ...."
"Well, love, I promised a gift for our anniversary
..."," ... it 's really beautiful.
....", I let it get to see' OK, let's go. Where did you see ?
"Da Shop ....( more 'expensive of all the Val D' Aosta, ed) ... just that I thought would cost (......) but costs much more. 'But' and 'beautiful. Think, and 'limited edition'
"Limited?!? I mean '? "
" All right,' Come on, come on, I let it get to see, "
" Well, if it 's so nice and small, we hope that there is still ....",
"I made it set aside ...". If you encounter

Grace, know that her bag and 'the number 54 of a limited signature series, which each model and' custom and different, for sale only in carefully selected shops Milan, New York, Cortina, Gstaad, Paris, Aspen .... and Courmayeur.