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\"Yaron\"<\/a>We up in the North are currently experiencing a\u00a0whole week of\u00a0rain… once again our garden has turned into a lake and the smell of mould permeates our bedroom. We have given up trying to get rid of it and are just accepting\u00a0 furniture\u00a0damages and\u00a0possible bronchial diseases in our future. Every time we try to ask someone to take responsibility they just pass the buck, and we end up on a loop. It does make me wonder about the\u00a0properties here\u00a0though – the apartments\u00a0seem to be made of papier mache. The area looks<\/em> very smart but actually nothing\u00a0 is built to last. I am told mould is a common problem and people are very reluctant to buy\u00a0in Ramat Rabin\u00a0due to the shoddy building. Pretty much everyone we know rents.<\/p>\n

Israelis are so funny about rain. Nobody goes out. We have now realised that rainy days are a brilliant time to get things done – it’s hiliarious how terrified the average israeli is of a bit of water. Dahan – empty, Husband reported Misrad Hapanim – empty and\u00a0Homecentre – empty.\u00a0At least two ladies cried off\u00a0mummy and baby group\u00a0today due to rain, and everybody who came drove [who would consider walking??! with all those puddles??!], yoga class cancelled due to rain… one wonders – presumably Israel doesn’t fight wars in the rain either?<\/p>\n

We had to go out though as we had run out of fruit, and as you can see from the picture, Roni is rather keen on fruit. The chap at the butcher told me he felt sorry for Roni because\u00a0I had brought him out on such a cold day. Roni, snug and cosy in his baby sling,\u00a0just smiled back at him. A random arab woman outside the fruit & veg place came up to me and started vigorously\u00a0pulling his trousers legs over the expsosed one inch of skin on his calf… “I don’t want him to be cold” she explained to myself and a rather bemused Roni, as if I were her granddaughter. Good grief. I explain time and time again to these people that if the British lived with an Israeli attitude to rain, nobody would ever leave the house but they don’t seem to get it.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0suppose the tables will be turned when\u00a0I decide to stay\u00a0home when the sun comes out and it gets close to 40 degrees…\u00a0 I actually read somewhere, I forget where [the Continuum Concept, perhaps?] that it’s good for small children to experience natural weather phenomena directly [i.e. not in a car or under the plastic of a buggy], the exposure is actually healthy for body and soul.\u00a0They would probably lock me up here if I told them that one.\u00a0I wonder what they would do here if it ever properly snowed?!<\/p>\n

Lots more rain forecast tomorrow. Definitely a day for shopping but sadly Husband is using car. I imagine we will be visiting friends as I can’t imagine any of our friends will be leaving the house….!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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