A new beginning, or maybe not...

A new year, a new start - from today I'm depositing all my juicy news on this page. Some of you will be emigrating with me and my scribblings from another site (for reasons I can't delve into, I won't be linking to that site), and rest assured, I will be continuing in the same vein...for those of you joining me here at anglosaxy, I hereby bestow upon yee a hearty WELCOME!

Got back from England on Sunday, back to work on Monday and sick since Monday afternoon (probably a reaction to the back-to-reality vibes)...but I wanted to wish a HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my readers, all 2 of you! And yes, there is a whole virtual pile of Xmas pics waiting to be posted - they will be, just as soon as the vitamins kick in and vanquish the bugs presently infiltrating my body's defence mechanism...

Yesterday I was at work again (twice in a week, unbelievable!), feeling pretty shite and not only because of the flu. I popped home for lunch and on the way back to the office I spotted police cars at all the various highway exits, which, believe it or not, is pretty unusual in Israel. Thinking not too much of it, I parked my car and tried to cross the road to my office, when a sudden wave of siren-blasting police cars came roaring down the road, at least 20 or so. I even had to jump off the pavement as one came speeding down it. The immediate response is to assume that a bomb has gone off somewhere; this time, it seems, Tel Aviv was a little more fortunate, as you can read here...just a timely reminder about the ever-present dangers in the Holy Land...