Author Archives: c.fertleman

Maria and Christian are leaving Israel soon to return to Germany. Stephanie was staying for a few weeks in Mevo Beitar so we decided to get an AirBnB and join her. What a wonderful weekend. Full of fun, dogs, walks and eating with laughter. Flora 1 Flora 2 Flora 3 Art around the place! Carly, …

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I am not sure how many of these came about. But some I do! That’s all folks!

Debby asked me to go with her to the annual Fresh Paint event. It is to showcase affordable art. There was lots of cool stuff

I went to stay for a few nights with my wonderful friend Sandra. We went to Eyemouth and were blown away with this statue to commemorate a sea disaster in 1881. So many boats and men were lost. The flowers in Eyemouth were so vibrant. Really beautiful.

I went away for an overnight in Belgravia with my daughter Betsy. We visited the free exhibitions in the Saatchi Gallery before going on a shopping spree. In the shop Just outside the gallery on a fine Sunday morning

Toby and I went with Talulah on a 2 day holiday in the Jezreel Valley. We went to the Geva where there was a very weird museum – Shturman – with displays of stuffed 2 headed and 6 legged mammals. Then I saw an exhibition of felted pieces at the Mishkan Museum of Art. Collective …

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I had always had a fascination for the story about Noah, the flood, the pairs of animals going into the ark to be saved as the world would be flooded. I tried to find Noah’s wife’s name but it is not listed in the original text. Sometimes she is thought to be Naamah and at …

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I bought a pregnant Barbie in Akko but didn’t as yet have a project for her. Whilst musing in my training session with Miri, I realised I could cover her in purple flower stickers on her nude body and take her round and photograph her at the organic farm where Tova and I got a …

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Carly is rather bemused that she can write two stories back-to-back about dating. It is not as though she is a floozy. Or, that she has even been out with that many men. Or that was her sole raison d’être for coming to live in Israel, despite what her family and friends in the UK …

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