To their credit, the shipping company did offer to send their boys back to finish the job. Husband declined though as he decided he would rather not have them back in the house, plus he had done the job himself by then anyhow. Shame, two of them were quite cute (though that could have been a …
Moving day. Finally. I thought the day would never come. Managed not to give birth over shabbat so was around to supervise the removal men. Having promised to give us a heads up [which they didn’t] we find them at our new house, waiting outside impatiently. You would have thought the sight of a 9 …
It’s a weird thing, when the average Israeli sees a mother or pregnant woman in Israel, all boundaries go out the window. Suddenly, everyone is your mother-in-law. They have a right to comment on how you feed, clothe and take care of your current child, and they ask you questions about your pregnancy as if …
Number of ant sightings: Thousands. One crumb and they flock like you’ve never seen. Number of Burekas consumed: 0 (I have now discovered the egosi ice cream bar. It’s a relic of my childhood pesachs, only now its frozen. Yum.) Number of arsy Israelis Spotted: 2 So this morning we trooped off to the Bituach Leumi Institue …
Number of Cockroach Sightings: 0 (we have moved digs – see below) Number of Burekas Consumed: 3 (not too bad) Number of Arsy Israelis Spotted: 9 (mostly hairdressers) After weeks of living without aircon or hot water, some new friends of ours took pity on us. We feel rather like the characters in the book …
Number of Cockroach Sightings: 3 (1 in kitchen, 1 baby killed by husband and the third husband found on bathroom towel again and squelched it whilst screaming blue murder. Apparently it was really really big, like 10 inches long. Hmmm.) Number of Burekas Consumed: 0 (feeling very smug) One of the side-effects of pregnancy is popping to the toilet …
Number of Cockroach Sightings: 1 (murdered by husband) Number of Burekas Consumed: 3 (I didn’t buy them! I didn’t buy them! They were offered to me at a picnic!) After a week of wandering around aimlessly looking at flats in the sweltering heat, only to find they had gone within 0.29 of a second of appearing …
Number of Cockroach Sightings: 0 Number of Burekas Consumed: 6 (whilst walking the 5 minute walk back from the bakery. I am pregnant you know.) This morning we took our usual bus ride to the neighbourhood we are flat hunting in. On arrival we spend HALF AN HOUR walking around in the sweltering heat looking …
Number of Cockroach Sightings: 2 (one in kitchen and another by the entrance to a flat we viewed) As far as I remember, speed bumps were invented to slow down the speed of traffic in quiet neighbourhoods. Not so in Karmiel, it seems. Here, the bus drivers simply view them as an annoyance to be …
Number of Cockroach Sightings: 0 (it seems they aren’t so keen on air-conditioning) Number of Burekas consumed: Lost count Number of Crap Waitresses spotted in Karmiel: Like, the twenty fifth We jumped on a sherut and 2 trains and escaped to family this shabbat in Bet Shemesh. The stress of the last few weeks had …