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 (killed with sandal) It’s glorious here. Perfect weather, beautiful views of mountains and the flat kindly donated to us by a family on holiday is in a very convenient location. For some unexplained reason there is no hot water but we will cope. We go along to Clalit to register …
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 …