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\"Head<\/a>“Bad news.”\u00a0 Husband announces.<\/p>\n

“Oh no, what now?” I say.<\/p>\n

“Something transparant just jumped out of Jojo’s hair.”<\/p>\n

“Oh god no.\u00a0 Please tell me you imagined it.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Nope.”\u00a0 And poor Jojo was promptly frogmarched to the chemists.<\/p>\n

I had heard that nits are rampant in Israel, but like most nasty illnesses, I just never thought it would happen to us.\u00a0 Indeed Jojo has been scratching his head for a few days now, but as I have never experienced nits I hadn’t paid much attention.\u00a0 I was always told they liked clean hair, and as curly hair doesn’t respond well to frequent washing, I always thought we were safe.\u00a0 Turns out the Clean Hair thing is one of life’s big myths.\u00a0 Nits, it seems, are really not fussed.\u00a0 They will happily live on anyone’s hair.\u00a0 Contrary to popular belief they don’t stand around making comments such as “oohh, let’s go to that one Sylv, I hear she’s just used Herbal Essences”.<\/p>\n

I blame Jojo.\u00a0 He is far too promiscuous and now he has brought shame on the family and it’s\u00a0costing\u00a0\u00a0us 85 shekels worth of spritz-stuff\u00a0to remove it.\u00a0 Plus a nasty looking nit comb which does not look like it’s designed for Jewish hair.<\/p>\n

Apparantly the nit patrol here is not as vigilant as the UK.\u00a0 The kids aren’t sent home from gan with warnings and instruction on which nit lotion to buy, they just pass it amongst each other and nothing is said.\u00a0 It’s part of life in the semi-developed world.\u00a0 So now I have no idea which kids have it and no way to track it down.\u00a0 From now on, Jojo will be wearing hair bands and I don’t care if he looks like a girl.\u00a0 I cannot believe, in 31 years of never getting the darn things, he has managed to pass it on to me.\u00a0I had been blaming the new organic brand of shampoo and conditioner I have been using, but it turns out I have actually had creatures living off my scalp.<\/p>\n

Just what was God thinking when he created these blood-sucking critters? I am just trying to get to grips with the thought process behind creating something which can only survive on man (or\u00a0more often,\u00a0womans) hair.\u00a0 Did He say to Himself “Hmm, these will come in handy as a weapon against the Egyptians”.\u00a0 Possibly.\u00a0 If they suffered the way I have been it\u00a0must have really<\/em> pissed them off. It does indeed make you feel lousy.\u00a0 And poor Jojo was up til 2am having his hair painstakingly\u00a0nitpicked, whilst being bribed with kinder bars.\u00a0 Then it was my turn, only this was an almost an impossible task as I have been growing my hair for donation purposes and Husband was struggling to work his way through.\u00a0 Am thinking its unlikely anyone will actually want<\/em> my hair now that it has squatters.<\/p>\n

So it seems we have a whole plethora of exciting things to look forward to.\u00a0 Besides headlice,\u00a0the promised land\u00a0has plenty of other treats for us to experience in our early years of aliyah, including worms, new\u00a0tummy bugs, a variety of sniffles and lets not forget the mosquitos, predicted to reach epic levels following an unusually long dry summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For this we left our home in Hertfordshire\u00a0behind.<\/p>\n

[Just out of interest, how many times did you scratch your head whilst reading this entry?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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