YAY MP!!!! this is exciting news! now we can catch up for coffee and muffins!!

MM: the apple and village scene took place on a hot summer day surrounded by glorious laden olive trees and a gentle tuscan breeze...

then it went to crap.

Leila dropped the apple she was eating, instinctively i reached to pick it up and wandered over to a (albeit 15th Century) tap to rinse it off. I then handed it back to her and looked up to see the horrified faces of my BIL and some random Nonna in her mumu...about half a second later i was met with a tirade of how disgusting it was that i gave the apple back yada yada yada. this went on unabated for, oh, say, 10 minutes. i just stood there, feeling the heat of rays sun intensify my quickening rise to fury as they 'instructed' me, the unwise Australian girl, on the ways of the world etc. Mystery Nonna stormed off, BIL didnt let up...other neighbours tuned in. I'm still standing there. DD is still eating her 'poisonous' apple (and yes, the Adam/Eve and snowwhite thing did cross my mind LOL!). Mystery Nonna returns with a bag of apples that she just picked from her (now suddenly) stinking ugly apple tree. BIL reaches over and tosses the apple away from DD...it was roughly at the moment that he reached towards her that i *kinda* lost it. The bag of apples was hurled amongst a flurry of english and italian obscenitites (wasnt my finest moment lol) and ended up over the mountain side while i took DD and stormed (still screaming obscenities) up the mountain road in front of the entire village back home...
the neighbours avoided me after that.
the BIL didnt, and ended up with peanut butter being hurled at his face a few days later.