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Sausage party

December 28, 2017December 28, 2017 Posted in Food6 Comments

What I missed, every day, yearned for, actually, was a British-style pork sausage. I dreamt of them. At least I think it was sausages I saw in my dreams.

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Telling Gloria

December 6, 2017December 6, 2017 Posted in Family, Leaving London1 Comment

She said she’d visited my father’s grave and told him my news. He was, I understand, thrilled by it.

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The beach

November 16, 2017November 16, 2017 Posted in beach, gay, mansoon, Saturday1 Comment

I have measured out my life in expensive hotels, it seems, and I gauge my tan in types of honey. I am now millefiori, and aspire to castagna.

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Last day at the ulpan

November 13, 2017November 13, 2017 Posted in Alberto, Friends, Ludmilla, Nathan, Rufina, Shlomit, Ulpan1 Comment

She danced with Alberto, I don’t know why, the joy and sadness of the occasion, I suppose.

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A self-saucing pudding

September 18, 2017May 30, 2019 Posted in Ben, Nathan, Olive Korner, Uncategorized8 Comments

Nathan, whose greatest fear is that he’ll develop a resistance to Botox, returned from Frankfurt with the face of an inexpressive eight year old.

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A write-off

September 12, 2017January 29, 2018 Posted in Family, Leaving London, Moving, Uncategorized7 Comments

I discover that doing nothing is more fun than having nothing to do

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Ulpanation

August 30, 2017October 2, 2017 Posted in beach, Ludmilla, Nathan, Rufina, Shlomit, Ulpan, Uncategorized4 Comments

She looked disgusted, as if I’d admitted to a taste for rat, or beetroot, or something.

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Alvin

August 7, 2017August 8, 2017 Posted in Alvin, Ulpan, Uncategorized3 Comments

The man said, ‘I hate Jews.’ Alvin said ‘Ok’, and continued showing the property…

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Fat fatty fat fat

June 23, 2017February 4, 2022 Posted in Food, Olive Korner, Uncategorized2 Comments

Elli leaned closer, his face serious, and told me something surprising. At least, I was taken by surprise.

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A year in Tel Aviv

I arrived in Israel from London in November, slightly dazed. The process of getting here had been smooth, maybe too easy. What would I do here? What would I find? Who would I meet? Would I stay?

This blog is my attempt to answer those questions. The posts aren’t in any sort of chronological order.

White Meat, by the way, is what
Israelis call pork.

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