Much has happened. The girls went off to Italy to stay with my mother. Then they went to Croatia with my aunt. What happened between then and their week-early return yesterday is a little hazy. But according to my aunt they refused to speak to anyone and spoke only in Swedish to each other, thus ensuring no one else had the first clue of what was going on. They tell me my aunt was rude about “our family”, even questioning my ability to cook Spaghetti Carbonara. Imagine that….
They are now back with my mother (mormor) and jolly happy they are too, as you will see from baby Bea’s latest email:
Hej hej, mormor is very happy and she says she enjoys much more having us here then us beeing at piera’s and yesturday mormor said we could look at her postcards and in the middle of them i saw a pretty little book written Menu on and i said hey mormor look at this and then she said we could write the menu on some other paper and put it in the book because the paper in the book was hand made so that’s why today we are having a whole day of restaurant. Oh that must of been fun did everybody eat it ?
We also went to go and eat Pizza yesturday olivia got pizza with ham i don’t know what mormor got and i got the pizza with nothing inside and with rosmary i think it is on top. then we went to see the film we played in the park and we left mormor alone but if we wanted water we went and said can we please have water after when it was nearly finishe the film the man was talking so i ran to the park and i tripped on a rock and went flying then i hit my leg on something like the side thing on the sidewalk and then i got blud and a broose it really hurts when we got home mormor put cream on it and the cream was really cold but it was my fault because i shouldn’t of been running to the park that was silly. And mama on the boat it was going really fast and it was bumping around and water came on the windows the lights were moving it was so scary and while i was on it my legs would shake every second i wouldn’t stop and plus it was very cold and very hard to fall asleep im gonna stop writting now because my message is gonna blow
Lots of love bea
xxxx
Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2010
How wonderfully Bea writes, and about such dramatic events!
Why would your Aunt question your ability to make Carbonara? Is this the cream or no cream in Carbonara debate or is she just trying to doubt your culinary skills ? (I am sure you make Carbonara (and many other things) very well
Whats in your recipe for Spaghetti Carbonara, looking at that picture inspired me to hunt down a recipe and attempt it myself, must say it was quite good….
Just finished reading Two Lipsticks (after I realized I owned the US edition) and love love loved it! What a great read!
Hi
Thanks for comments, I think my aunt just doesn’t like me (we fell out after Ciao Bella was published). If I have cream handy I throw it into a Carbonara.
Hx
Great writing from Bea!