Monthly Archives: March 2026

Carly has always had breakfast. As a child, this was non-negotiable. She has a very poor memory, so has no idea what she ate as a child, but as an adolescent she loved to cook a quick type of porridge called Readibrek. Mostly because she liked the adverts on television about this product. There were …

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Not long after moving to Jaffa, Bobbin came to live with Carly and Talulah. She was an adolescent cat from Carly’s good friend Ayala. She’d been placed with a family with a dog who just barked all day long at her. But Talulah had been brought up with elderly cats and knew her place. Firmly …

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Carly isn’t sure how long she has had Netflix or nor why she still pays for it for her family. All her kids are adults invariably well-paid jobs and really should be paying for it themselves. Sometimes she gets really annoyed, and just for the hell of it changes the password. She then measures how …

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Carly tries her hand at the dating scene in TLV Every time Carly returns to the UK, everyone expectantly turns to her, tilts his or her head to the side and looks at her mournfully. “So how is the dating scene in Israel?” Harrumph, says Carly to herself. Really, she is trying but she is …

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Nicole, a good friend, introduced her sister, Tanya, to Carly. She thought they would have a lot in common, and they do! Tanya lived in Tel Aviv and Nicole knew Carly was going to be moving there at some point in time in the future. And, although they get on well, they have a lot …

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As I was going to Japan I needed to make Kimono Barbie. I chose the one with long hair from my 2 recent Barbie purchases from Akko. The blond one wasn’t really relevant. I studied kimono patterns and used the fabric that Christian and Maria had bought for me in Japan. I made huge winged …

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Eli found a fabulous threads x 2 exhibition and as I had to return to Israel via London from Tokyo (and via Addis Ababa and Larnaca!) I could see this wonderful duo of exhibitions with her. Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life Yin Xiuzhen: Heart to Heart New York, Hamburg, Melbourne, London, Brussels, Seoul, Shenzhen and …

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We almost weren’t going to go there. We were on our way to somewhere else but it seemed popular and huge and fascinating. It was and we were there for hours. Superb.

What a smashing museum. All sorts of art. Including a swimming pool you can look at up from above and enter from below.

One evening, when Carly’s neighbours, Noa and Pini, were over, they noticed there were seven Barbies in lilac outfits that were peeping over the top of the TV. Noa told Carly that her collection of Barbies displayed in this way was kinky, and they both laughed. In fact, she did go on quite a bit …

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