Happy Days and Lazy Sundays

The last few days have passed in a blur, and not all of it drink induced. I met for brunch with my newly acquired young friends whom I met when I had yet another failure on the language front, I have since decided Rosetta is the way to go, she lets me learn at my own pace, doesn't make me feel like an imbecile and above all never, ever tells me I have homework. Anyway getting back to my friends, we have Katharina from Austria a kindergarten teacher who met her partner whilst travelling through India and took a leap of faith and moved to Israel, then we have Annie an Australian who moved here with her employer, Annie is a Personal Assistant and a very switched on lady, last weekend she laid on an event for a birthday which included a fancy dress theme, a photo booth and a dressing up booth, oh and the police arriving to ask for the music to be turned down, apparently in Israel your music must be turned down after 11.30 in residential areas or they WILL confiscate your equipment. Then there is Benjamin a young man in his late twenties from Paris via the USA, we met at the end of my street and headed into CafeCafe we chatted and swapped stories about how we arrived in Israel, what we were going to be doing in the future and why. It was lovely to be out with people who know nothing about oil and gas, well not unless your talking turning on the stove that is. We swapped emails and mobile numbers and finished up promising to meet up again, but maybe next time an evening in Tel Aviv may be the order of the day.

I have now discovered thanks to Annie a lovely butchers shop, a fishmonger and a greengrocer, and the obligatory wine store, all next to some lovely cafes, had Annie never mentioned them I would never have found them, they are tucked away around a corner I would never have explored so I was delighted when Annie and I had chatted about where we shop. Annie on the other hand was hoping to visit the Wine Road My Beloved and I visited last weekend, I hope she managed between the rain showers, as we have had one hell of a weekend of thunder, lightening and rain, don't get me wrong in between all this banging and flashing there was some amazing bursts of sunshine, not good when your sitting at a bus stop in direct sunshine and no sunglasses, it leads to a very odd look on your face.

Today is the day I chop fruit and soak it in alcohol in preparation for baking tomorrow, I am so sad to actually be quite excited about dried fruit, but I've been excited about sadder things so I'm not beating myself up too much. 

I am now gyming twice a day, and up to 85 minutes on the bike, I have to do it in two sessions or my bum would be completely numb and I would do that Bridget Jones thing getting off the bike. Today I'm taking it up to 90 mins I just wish it was an upright bike and not recumbent, I really have to force myself to stay on it, I have found that watching Thor on the ipad helps, or the Avengers, well until yesterday when the ipad had complete moment, I had finished Thor and decided to watch Red, this was ok until Bruce started removing tablets from his mouth and walking backwards upstairs to bed, I know that doesn't happen in the film but it happened on my ipad so now I have rebooted and wagged my finger at said ipad and have given it a final warning.

Fingers crossed the ipad behaves