Since we have not yet managed to purchase our car, we are still at the mercy of the Karmiel bus system.\u00a0 Thankfully, its pretty good.\u00a0 So long as you don’t mind random people chatting to you as if they are your Great Aunt Rose.\u00a0 Today I had the pleasure of a portly\u00a0bubbe\u00a0 in the much favoured by all russian immigrants\u00a0leopard skin print blouse chatting me up at the bus stop.\u00a0 She was sitting on the bench\u00a0surrounded by her\u00a0shopping, which she kindly moved to one side when she saw me with the baby carrier.\u00a0 “Oh, what a chamud” she said, looking at Yaron in his carrier and Jojo in his buggy and then\u00a0asked me if both my children were boys or girls? (Jojo is looking particularly girly these days what with the need to use hair clips).\u00a0 I replied they were in fact both boys.\u00a0 “Hmm,” she says,\u00a0blowing a mouthful\u00a0of biscuit crumbs in my direction,\u00a0“I think your next one will be a girl.”\u00a0 “Really?” I tell her.\u00a0“Only I have always thought I would have an all boy family, and so far I have not been wrong.”\u00a0 “Well” she said, nodding wisely, “you tell everyone that you met a lady at the bus stop who said you would have a girl”.\u00a0 So there you have it.\u00a0 (like how on earth does she know I blog??) Anyhow, it seems one day I might be able to buy cute frilly dresses for someonoe other than me after all.<\/p>\n
Happily, we should have our nice new car soon as husband, rather remarkably, passed his israeli driving test first time after only one lesson.\u00a0 This is partly due to his total manly brilliance, but possibly also due to the\u00a0friendly native british chap called Martin\u00a0who examined him.\u00a0 Turns out he is allegedly\u00a0the only British employee in the whole Israeli DMV.\u00a0They had a nice chat apparently.\u00a0 Husband reported that the 5 minute\u00a0test was just to check he actually could drive a car, which you think would be normal, but after the horror stories we heard about Israeli examiners failing new olim on the most daft of things, we were quite relieved.<\/p>\n
A word about cleaners…. the gobby (but nice when you get to know her) Amneh was unable to come today, as her son wasn’t well.\u00a0\u00a0 I was sent a lovely lady in her place, who I must say has the gift of Feng Shui.\u00a0 Anyhow it seems that cleaners, universally, can be quite macabre when it comes to arranging ones personal items.\u00a0 I remember when living with my sister if we couldnt find some essential item like a comb or a challah cover, she used to say “think like a cleaner” and we would try the less obvious places, eventually finding the item in the microwave,\u00a0bath, or\u00a0somewhere similarly bizarre.\u00a0\u00a0My temp cleaner\u00a0Seren\u00a0it seems\u00a0was happy to arrange perfumes upside down, (ok fair enough as she cant read english) but far funnier was the photograph of me and a good friend.\u00a0 Before I left London she gave me a beautiful framed picture of us posing in front of a gorgeous sunset, in Sardinia “see, we both look thin” she told me “and you had better put it somewhere prominent.”\u00a0 So I dutifully placed it by my bed.\u00a0 I went upstairs this afternoon to find it placed sideways.\u00a0 Weird.<\/p>\n
Oh, and in case anyone was wondering, we have started our vegbox deliveries.\u00a0 You may remember I was\u00a0a\u00a0 bit upset about this country turning out to be the land flowing with\u00a0formula milk and non-organic honey.\u00a0 In actual\u00a0fact the organic products have turned out to be great on the whole.\u00a0 A slight problem with the chard, which looked as if it had been found by a very hungry caterpillar but other than that really nice stuff.\u00a0 The milk tastes lovely and its the first time I have seen really good eggs in israel.\u00a0 Its all from a shop in Tivon, although we have no way to check out if it is “authentic” other than visiting the farms themselves.\u00a0 Israel has not yet caught on to Soil Association or Fair Trade stamping yet.\u00a0 Oh well, one has to remember the land I am currently living on was just a swamp 50 or so years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since we have not yet managed to purchase our car, we are still at the mercy of the Karmiel bus system.\u00a0 Thankfully, its pretty good.\u00a0 So long as you don’t mind random people chatting to you as if they are your Great Aunt Rose.\u00a0 Today I had the pleasure of a portly\u00a0bubbe\u00a0 in the much … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aliyah"],"yoast_head":"\n