BIMBO means child or baby in Italy, and I believe the grand factories of production are housed in Milano, fashion and apparently Mexican bread capital of the world. I hope you are also receiving the various cookies, sweet breads, and pasta products (possibly?) they manufactor.

“Mexican flag is the best”, it is beautifull with 3 colors, Green, White and Red and in the middle a big and representative eagle, who is eating a snack.

Although the eagle is in reality eating a snake, both interpretations are equally valid. I must ask myself: ‘Who taught this boy?’

I’m having serious withdrawal symptoms, so just went on the website to check out what’s happened during the 4 episodes I’ve missed so far. Bad idea!

It appears that at least 4 new characters have been introduced - and so far as INTEGRATED - into the plot. Claribel, who is apparently Paz’s twin sister - I wonder if she’ll get paid double for acting two roles…; Ignacio (cool name), who is Claribel’s father, so you would assume logically also Paz’s father, but I wouldn’t take it as a given (oh, & who died today); Mercedes, who is apparently Paz’s mother, but never noticed a second small child coming out of her womb all those years ago; and Eugenio, but I’m not really sure who he is.

Pacheco has cancer - hasn’t he been through enough? - what with dying, coming back as a ghost, & then miraculously waking up when he heard Barbara say she loved him -, but the doctor has lied & told him he’ll be fine; which, of course, he will, because he’s the hunk of the show & it wouldn’t be any good for ratings for him to lose his hair now would it?

Tatiana (box of frogs) & Fabricio were about to get married but he pulled out (thank the virgin of Guadaloupe for that!), & was consequently consoled by hot blind chick who, I assume, will soon miraculously regain her sight through the magic of being in love with Fabricio.

It also appears that Caro is pregnant, so I’ll be expecting to hear about the birth in a fortnight (sorry, correct word for two weeks, as u gringos would say), but Tango & Alejandro are fighting over who’s the father. At least that storyline is new & innovative!

Oh, & meatloaf body-guard woke up in the house of that crazy blonde doctor who was claiming that Barbara was her daughter lost in an earthquake 25 years ago, who, it appears, is falling in love with him. As everyone seems to do, despite his meatloaf hair & recent blindness.

And that’s just in today’s episode!!!

Oh, it’s such a roller-coaster of emotions, & I still regret that you never got round to teaching me to type two-handed, otherwise I would update you every day.

However, unlike the products being imported from the US, most teenage clothes shops in France, Spain, & Italy, will dazzle customers with their own versions of English translations - often badly. Some classics: ‘take me to beed’; ‘naughty but spice’; and the ever popular, two handprints over the chest & the caption ‘hands off’ - rarely seen on anyone above the age of 10.

While living in France I was once lucky enough to receive some underwear with the very coy caption: ‘What’s your name?”. Now, being the liberal Brit I am, I hate to say it, but, surely you should know that information before anyone reaches your nether regions…

Another great example (again in France) of public naievity regarding the English language was an English pronunciation coach on a prime-time ‘pop-idol’-style TV programme, tuned into by millions of people each night, repeatedly shouting the phrase “butt-naked-banging” (from a then popular chart hit by Shaggy), like a drill sergeant in order for her students to repeat with correct anunciation.

Priceless. (Or, as an Italian T-shirt I once saw said: ‘I cost $5′).

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