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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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Like most people, Carly has a number of different ways to become inspired. She used to think she could only really do this when away on holiday. For sure it helps with partially silent writing retreats. That means she just has to get on with the business of writing, as that is how these holidays …

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Carly loves to recall to anyone who will listen how she came to be Tova’s friend. As Israeli bureaucracy is so dire, Carly will only set herself the task of dealing with one issue involving forms or government offices a day. Otherwise, she might well top herself. And having got to 60 and being relatively …

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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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