[This blog is dedicated to my niece, Talia, who stayed with us for 5 weeks and who we are now starting to miss] Well the cottage cheese prices went down but that hasn’t stopped the protests. We haven’t joined them as our rent hasn’t gone up, but it’s still unebelievably expensive to live in this …
The sun shone too bright it was too hot to play so we sat in our house on that hot humid day I sat there with Jojo and Roni and his toy flute and I said , how i wish we had something else cute It’s too hot to go out too humid to walk …
In case anyone has been living in a cave recently [or like me can go months without picking up a paper when life gets busy] the country is in uproar at the moment – lots of people considered to be “my generation” are setting up Tent Cities all over the country. There are lots of …
In a rather desperate bid to keep everyone amused last Friday, we decided to take a tiyul to the LunaGal, Tiveria with kids and 12 year old niece in tow. It’s a beautiful drive – round the kinneret, magical glinting sunlight. Everything there except Jesus, really. Anyway we knew it would be expensive but chalked …
In case anyone was wondering why it’s been so quiet on here, don’t worry, it’s just been a busy few weeks. Husband jetted off to France for 2 weeks, leaving us to fend for ourselves. Luckily Israelis are very understanding about Absent Husbands, what with 12.5 percent of the population doing miluim [reserve duty] at …
One of Husbands cousins is currently setting up home in the desert, so he thought he would have the wedding to match. It was definitely the most unique chupa I had ever seen. The wedding took place on a tiny farm, in the Ya’ar Lehav [Lehav Forest] near Beersheva, and to get to the chupah …
When I was a lass I distinctly remember my dad telling us of the good old days at the shukhakarmel [we are only talking 10 – 15 years ago] where you could get whatever was in season for a “shekel kilo!”. I pictured us living here, drowning in tomatoes 4 months a year, living off fruit …
Israel is looking pretty good for 63, I have to say. As they say about the Queen, there is life in the old bird yet. Karmiel had a load of celebrations going on but I didn’t make it to any of them. The tekes [ceremony] and party on the eve of the chag started long …
As you can see, the latest uninvited guest to our home has twice as many legs as the usual ones….. I think she’s quite sweet but friends of ours who have met her have screamed and run away in horror. I suppose she could be poisonous but thankfully we will never know as she had …