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 …
Thursday morning at home in Karmiel, plumber comes to fix flood in kitchen, baby screaming and Jojo clambering onto table. Cleaner arrives. Plumber argues with landlady on fone. Jojo causing a new flood in the garden. Organic vegman calls 3 times for directions while I hold both kids. Arab IKEA delivery men arrive Jojo cries hysterically. Delivery men smash light. Husband arrives home to children sleeping and calm!
As the title suggests, our struggle to live a vaguely responsible existence in this one-horse town (Karmiel) continues. It seems the entire nation is united in it’s fight against environmentalism and social responsibility. Refuse a plastic bag at the makolet, for one carton of milk on the grounds of “caring for the environment”, and the shop …
Number of Cockroach Sightings: 1 (sadly nothing available in the bathroom to kill it with and I’ll bet it’s lurking somewhere near my bed) My god its hot. Like really, really hot. I have lived in Israel on my gap year, plus Texas and Louisiana, and I know what hot is. This is bloody hot. …
I don’t get the English. I never have and I probably never will. If you were offered a fabulous free Israeli breakfast with all the trimmings, why would you eat a bowl of imported sugary cereal??? Husband kept nagging at me to hurry up so we could go to the aliyah fair and sort out …
Number of Cockroach Sightings: 0 110 olim (we think) on our flight. Biggest UK aliyah group ever. Slight delay which made our little boy cranky for his dinner. Is it me – or is El Al particularly slow at everything? As husband pointed out, there is a reason we have flown British Airways for our …