Hello there, me again with my monthly update, my four mile essay which I hope you enjoy and don’t get bored reading.
Well the wedding was lovely, it was a very entertaining day, if not a little manic which I’m sure all of these events are.
I have to admit being very pleased that we didn’t go big and expensive, as it all seemed to be over in a flash. Typically just like baking a cake, all preparation and then eaten in seconds, and I have to admit I am a specialist on the subject of cake scoffing, it seems to be the one and only food fetish I have in pregnancy, at first I was blaming it on the fact that the carbs were stopping me feeling sick but obviously now that I’m past the morning sickness stage I have no excuse.
Michael says that I have the whole thing eaten normally before he even has a chance to get back from work, Um yummy, I’m sure babies first words will be Torte!
Anyway it actually worked out that not a single one of our friends could make it over in time for the big day, due to our excessively bad planning and short notice, how unbelievable.
We will definitely have another celebration in England (with baby)
I never imagine that with all my film industry pals that I would have wound up without a set director, photographer, designer, dressmaker, and card and invite designer, camera man, makeup artist and hairstylist!
There was me blurting on all of these years, saying I would always have the wedding covered with all my mates! Ha that showed me.
Oh my god so of course we had to find a local parrucchiere (hairdresser) and you will just die when you see the photos of what she did to my hair, I looked like an incredibly fat old Shirley Temple and because of course I was helping everyone else get ready, I didn’t have enough time to change it, as I actually only had ten minutes to get ready and put my dress on, (which by the way, was a Susan Howard sewing master piece!!! Not)
Wow we really are like one of those TV programs, we now make everything due to extreme change of lifestyle and lack of money, still I rather we leave meagrely and be happy, than be rich and miserable. ( well kind of)
Anyway so back to the wedding, which you can see on Picasso on the internet and can have a good laugh at my 7 months preggie belly and little baby curls, good grief, which I’m sure you’ll find interesting as you know how hideously unphotogenic I am.
Well Michaels family and most of mine managed to come at least, which is great as none of his family and not all of mine have been able to visit before and they all loved Puglia, obviously because it was of course up in the 40’s and a complete comparison to the rain they’d just left.
It was hilarious in the airport as we went to meet all 30 of them and I hadn’t seen most of Michaels family for ten years and a lot of the babies that I’d held in my arms, were now grown up children
As always there was an accident on the motorway and so we had to do a 6 car convoy into the interior to avoid it and it took 3 hours to get home rather than the usual 40 minutes. Ugh.
Of course the drama didn’t stop there, I was incredibly nervous about the alcohol consuming relatives, considering we’ve been stuck on this mountain side so long that we’ve forgotten how to party heavily and life here is insanely quiet.
Anyway we’d bribed our holiday guests with a very fruitful luxury hamper, they didn’t mind our entire families descending on the house and taking over the place, we’ve never had so many people in the pool before but it was great fun and everyone was totally blown away by the place, which was lovely to hear as you can imagine michael and I had been doing our usual house makeover job for a week(eat your heart out Laurence Llewellyn Bowen) before everyone had arrived, so the heat rose and the bubbly flowed and all was good and I was even more impressed when everyone left at a reasonable hour allowing the bump and me to put our feet up and not worry if we were ruining our guests holiday.
So both mum and dad and Michaels mum and dad were staying with us and on the day of the celebration the house was a delightful tranquil haven, we lounged and swam and got ready steadily, well we had to as it was 40+ degrees on the day of the wedding the hairdresser was lovely and soooooooooo cheap,(hence the hairstyle, only joking) and we all got a lovely Mercedes down to the beach club that Maurizio and Chiara had arranged for us.
Of course like all things in Italy it was organised in a very relaxed way and things took a long time to kick off and didn’t happen for quite a few hours after when they should have but everyone was more than content to sit on the luxurious white sofas that sat on the rocks looking out on to the sea.
Eventually when we did sit down to eat my mum and dad did us proud with a 10 course dinner consisting of (check this out)
1. Cocktails and nibbles
2. Antipasti: inc Carpaccio of tuna, Salmon, Swordfish, Parma ham, Octopus, Muscles, mixed sea food, Fried fish and lots of vegetables and little Crostini and Bruccheta
3. Tagliolini with lobster
4. Strozzapreti with Porcini mushrooms and truffles
5. Raw vegetable selection to cleanse the palette
6 Local Spigola (whole fish) meditterean style
7 Sorbet
8 Fillet of Beef, with oven baked potatoes and salad
9 A fruit buffet
10 My gigantic Cake (check out those pictures- well I had to have a big cake to make me look less fat)
And coffee and champagne- Poof, stuffed and delighted.
Funnily enough because I was being dragged left, right and centre and because I had more photos taken than Victoria Beckham on a bad hair day, I didn’t eat everything and therefore didn’t feel stuffed beyond extreme, also michael and i have got this large dining experience down to a ‘T’ by now, with our regular Sunday 6 courses and invites to various friends homes who seem to eat like this ever day, its incredible I just don’t know where they put it, they’re all as skinny as rakes(obviously apart from the big fat ones)
So to conclude it was a very enjoyable evening, although I can’t express how glad I am that its all over and we are now back into our snail paced tranquil lifestyle.
Also I've Got the baby room finished now at least, shame it wasn’t finished when everyone came, although you probably don’t find it that interesting, it makes me happy to get all these presents out that we’ve been given and play with them, what a big girls blouse I am.
Actually i think it hit home, particularly with michael, that we're actually going to have a little baby, once I got all these things out, neither of us have really registered it, as we’ve been so busy (obviously apart from my huge size and grumbling which is more than noticeable, we’ve been kind of ignoring it)
But as the big day approaches were trying not to over think it to much, as it’s our first, like all people I’m sure one can over panic.We shall see.
Well the wedding was lovely, it was a very entertaining day, if not a little manic which I’m sure all of these events are.
I have to admit being very pleased that we didn’t go big and expensive, as it all seemed to be over in a flash. Typically just like baking a cake, all preparation and then eaten in seconds, and I have to admit I am a specialist on the subject of cake scoffing, it seems to be the one and only food fetish I have in pregnancy, at first I was blaming it on the fact that the carbs were stopping me feeling sick but obviously now that I’m past the morning sickness stage I have no excuse.
Michael says that I have the whole thing eaten normally before he even has a chance to get back from work, Um yummy, I’m sure babies first words will be Torte!
Anyway it actually worked out that not a single one of our friends could make it over in time for the big day, due to our excessively bad planning and short notice, how unbelievable.
We will definitely have another celebration in England (with baby)
I never imagine that with all my film industry pals that I would have wound up without a set director, photographer, designer, dressmaker, and card and invite designer, camera man, makeup artist and hairstylist!
There was me blurting on all of these years, saying I would always have the wedding covered with all my mates! Ha that showed me.
Oh my god so of course we had to find a local parrucchiere (hairdresser) and you will just die when you see the photos of what she did to my hair, I looked like an incredibly fat old Shirley Temple and because of course I was helping everyone else get ready, I didn’t have enough time to change it, as I actually only had ten minutes to get ready and put my dress on, (which by the way, was a Susan Howard sewing master piece!!! Not)
Wow we really are like one of those TV programs, we now make everything due to extreme change of lifestyle and lack of money, still I rather we leave meagrely and be happy, than be rich and miserable. ( well kind of)
Anyway so back to the wedding, which you can see on Picasso on the internet and can have a good laugh at my 7 months preggie belly and little baby curls, good grief, which I’m sure you’ll find interesting as you know how hideously unphotogenic I am.
Well Michaels family and most of mine managed to come at least, which is great as none of his family and not all of mine have been able to visit before and they all loved Puglia, obviously because it was of course up in the 40’s and a complete comparison to the rain they’d just left.
It was hilarious in the airport as we went to meet all 30 of them and I hadn’t seen most of Michaels family for ten years and a lot of the babies that I’d held in my arms, were now grown up children
As always there was an accident on the motorway and so we had to do a 6 car convoy into the interior to avoid it and it took 3 hours to get home rather than the usual 40 minutes. Ugh.
Of course the drama didn’t stop there, I was incredibly nervous about the alcohol consuming relatives, considering we’ve been stuck on this mountain side so long that we’ve forgotten how to party heavily and life here is insanely quiet.
Anyway we’d bribed our holiday guests with a very fruitful luxury hamper, they didn’t mind our entire families descending on the house and taking over the place, we’ve never had so many people in the pool before but it was great fun and everyone was totally blown away by the place, which was lovely to hear as you can imagine michael and I had been doing our usual house makeover job for a week(eat your heart out Laurence Llewellyn Bowen) before everyone had arrived, so the heat rose and the bubbly flowed and all was good and I was even more impressed when everyone left at a reasonable hour allowing the bump and me to put our feet up and not worry if we were ruining our guests holiday.
So both mum and dad and Michaels mum and dad were staying with us and on the day of the celebration the house was a delightful tranquil haven, we lounged and swam and got ready steadily, well we had to as it was 40+ degrees on the day of the wedding the hairdresser was lovely and soooooooooo cheap,(hence the hairstyle, only joking) and we all got a lovely Mercedes down to the beach club that Maurizio and Chiara had arranged for us.
Of course like all things in Italy it was organised in a very relaxed way and things took a long time to kick off and didn’t happen for quite a few hours after when they should have but everyone was more than content to sit on the luxurious white sofas that sat on the rocks looking out on to the sea.
Eventually when we did sit down to eat my mum and dad did us proud with a 10 course dinner consisting of (check this out)
1. Cocktails and nibbles
2. Antipasti: inc Carpaccio of tuna, Salmon, Swordfish, Parma ham, Octopus, Muscles, mixed sea food, Fried fish and lots of vegetables and little Crostini and Bruccheta
3. Tagliolini with lobster
4. Strozzapreti with Porcini mushrooms and truffles
5. Raw vegetable selection to cleanse the palette
6 Local Spigola (whole fish) meditterean style
7 Sorbet
8 Fillet of Beef, with oven baked potatoes and salad
9 A fruit buffet
10 My gigantic Cake (check out those pictures- well I had to have a big cake to make me look less fat)
And coffee and champagne- Poof, stuffed and delighted.
Funnily enough because I was being dragged left, right and centre and because I had more photos taken than Victoria Beckham on a bad hair day, I didn’t eat everything and therefore didn’t feel stuffed beyond extreme, also michael and i have got this large dining experience down to a ‘T’ by now, with our regular Sunday 6 courses and invites to various friends homes who seem to eat like this ever day, its incredible I just don’t know where they put it, they’re all as skinny as rakes(obviously apart from the big fat ones)
So to conclude it was a very enjoyable evening, although I can’t express how glad I am that its all over and we are now back into our snail paced tranquil lifestyle.
Also I've Got the baby room finished now at least, shame it wasn’t finished when everyone came, although you probably don’t find it that interesting, it makes me happy to get all these presents out that we’ve been given and play with them, what a big girls blouse I am.
Actually i think it hit home, particularly with michael, that we're actually going to have a little baby, once I got all these things out, neither of us have really registered it, as we’ve been so busy (obviously apart from my huge size and grumbling which is more than noticeable, we’ve been kind of ignoring it)
But as the big day approaches were trying not to over think it to much, as it’s our first, like all people I’m sure one can over panic.We shall see.
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