Queen Forgets!
They were trying to decide what to get in for the weekend.
The Queen was writing the shopping list. She had decided that she would practise her Italian and the Press Secretary who was in a good mood, decided to ignore her spelling mistakes , just this once. One needed to encourage students after all and he knew this so very well as he had been an EFL teacher in another life.
She had written 'proshooto' instead of 'prosciutto', 'formadgio' instead of 'formaggio' and '6 uovi' for '6 uova'. She always had problems with 'ch' being pronounced as 'k' but here she was immovable and claimed that she was keeping up to date with the younger Italian generation who peppered their text messages with 'k's all over the place so much so that the letters 'ch' had practicaly disppeared from their language.
It was only as they were moving out towards the car when the Queen dropped the shopping list. She had taken two plastic bags (she was very ecologically minded and always recycled the shopping bags) and suddenly the list was on the ground at his feet but it was no ordinary piece of scrap paper this! As he picked it up the Press Secretary turned it over and
saw that it was an invitation to a gala dinner offered by Mr. B at the Palazzo Berluke in Rome for 2nd December after the glorious March on Rome !
"Oh, that invitation.... yes, I quite forgot... did not even reply" she said vaguely. "Does it say RSVP?" she asked distractedly.
"Yes, it does actually"
"Never mind, we are not really courting Mr. B any longer, are we -anyway I am sure he has enough to cope with, what with his dodgy knee and fainting fits".
The Press Secretary smiled and thought she might be finally weaned off Mr. B.
"Did I put milk on the list?"
"There 's something called 'late'.
"Yes, we are late....!"
"L A DOUBLE T E" the Queen said laughing." Latte - these double consonants will be the death of me".
Visit the site :- www.queeninitaly.com
The Queen was writing the shopping list. She had decided that she would practise her Italian and the Press Secretary who was in a good mood, decided to ignore her spelling mistakes , just this once. One needed to encourage students after all and he knew this so very well as he had been an EFL teacher in another life.
She had written 'proshooto' instead of 'prosciutto', 'formadgio' instead of 'formaggio' and '6 uovi' for '6 uova'. She always had problems with 'ch' being pronounced as 'k' but here she was immovable and claimed that she was keeping up to date with the younger Italian generation who peppered their text messages with 'k's all over the place so much so that the letters 'ch' had practicaly disppeared from their language.
It was only as they were moving out towards the car when the Queen dropped the shopping list. She had taken two plastic bags (she was very ecologically minded and always recycled the shopping bags) and suddenly the list was on the ground at his feet but it was no ordinary piece of scrap paper this! As he picked it up the Press Secretary turned it over and
saw that it was an invitation to a gala dinner offered by Mr. B at the Palazzo Berluke in Rome for 2nd December after the glorious March on Rome !
"Oh, that invitation.... yes, I quite forgot... did not even reply" she said vaguely. "Does it say RSVP?" she asked distractedly.
"Yes, it does actually"
"Never mind, we are not really courting Mr. B any longer, are we -anyway I am sure he has enough to cope with, what with his dodgy knee and fainting fits".
The Press Secretary smiled and thought she might be finally weaned off Mr. B.
"Did I put milk on the list?"
"There 's something called 'late'.
"Yes, we are late....!"
"L A DOUBLE T E" the Queen said laughing." Latte - these double consonants will be the death of me".
Visit the site :- www.queeninitaly.com
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