New curtains

We have been busy with our little home and as you can see in the background of the photograph we have some new burgundy curtains in our living room, and we now have a lamp-shade. But my DIY has been slightly hindered by an accident I had with a hack-saw, as well as cutting the bolt I managed to also cut my finger. Having never had an injury like this before I thought the pain and discomfort was normal, until I had the dressing changed today only to find a bad infection - that would explain the throbbing pain last night.
Having the stitches out this morning produced more than one ouch. P

Inflation

We have just successfully renewed our visas, so we are here for another 6 months. We survived one sizzling summer, so I'm sure we can manage another. The clerk in the Ministry of the Interior made an interesting comment to our solicitor when he asked her about the process of renewing our visas again in 6 months time. She told him that we probably wouldn't want to stay for another 6 months, but if we did then there would be extra forms to complete. Perhaps she thought that we didn't want to go through the frustrating, lengthy and irritating visa application process again, that we didn't like living in Nazareth, or perhaps it was the cost of renewing a visa. In August last year we paid 80 shekels each (£14), today we paid 165 shekels each (£28), by my reckoning if the Ministry of the Interior inflation continues it will be 340 shekels in August, the price of rubber stamps and ink must be going up. P