Lia’s mum and dad came to stay a couple of weeks ago. I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this before, but they are, without doubt, the perfect in-laws, being Italian and speaking no English. I speak very little Italian, so for the last twenty years we’ve never had a conversation. Perfect in-laws!
Interestingly, whenever they see Lia and me having an argument, they always take my side!
“Smetta di gridare lui” (stop shouting at him), they’ll say to Lia, or some such thing, even though they don’t know what we’re arguing about, or the fact that Lia is almost 100% justified in whatever she’s having a go at me about.
This of course only get’s Lia even more annoyed.
They also do all the jobs around the house when they are over. They are getting on a bit now, so I tend not to let them do any more painting and decorating, or heavy lifting. Just the housework and the gardening.
Sadly they’ve gone back to Italy now, but they left behind one of the Italian magazines that they bring with them. This one’s called OGGI (rhymes with dodgy), which means TODAY.
Being Italian, it does reveal a higher proportion of scantily clad women than its English counterpart, but otherwise its very similar in content, particularly the small ads, for example Stannah Stairlifts (il leader mondiale dai montascale), and walk-in baths (Fare il bagno e una fatica?)
The only difference, of course, is that in Italy, the Stannah stairlifts go up the right hand side of the stairs.
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