I did a complete sheets, duvet covers, pillow cases, mattress covers & pillow covers
wash this week.
Added  to that,
I washed some bed linen for one of the boats hubby manages
which had got wet
due to a leaky hatch.
I had sheets draped all over every radiator
as I don't want to use the tumble dryer too much.

Added to this massive amount of laundry at home,
in the shop we folded sheets, pillow cases & duvet covers
which had been donated.

So while folding sheets with my friend in the shop,
giggling, I burst into   

this song

She wasn't surprised

as we sing a lot 

( sometimes empty the shop with our renditions ! )

 Classic FM Radio is on in the background

& we hum to that too.

Why sing Matchmaker from that wonderful film

Fiddler on the Roof ?

Well I'll tell you...

In my early twenties,

I went to work on a Kibbutz in Israel.

My first job was in the laundry

folding & pressing sheets

There were a lot.
A Kibbutz is a community the size of a small village
so you can imagine how much laundry there was to sort !

I was folding a sheet with my friend & roommate

a lovely girl from New Zealand

when she started flapping the sheet out & singing

"Matchmaker matchmaker..."

We dissolved into giggles

with the humour...

Here we were in Israel

folding sheets...

( and looking for love ! )

It's such a happy memory

& makes me smile every time.

With my group who went to that particular Kibbutz
at that time

was Phil the Hippie

( Woodstock as he became known )

He slept for a few days after we arrived

& woke to find a pile of sweets on him.

The rest of us had already found ours

someone had left under our pillows to welcome us.

We had a bar in a bomb shelter

and the man who ran it

had an uncanny likeness to

the very traditional images of Jesus-

long hair, beard,  thin face.

When Phil finally woke up & discovered the bar

he said,

" Cool -
 Jesus is working behind the bar "


" Jesus "
was actually a very talented artist named Charles.

Phil left to work on a farm-

a Moshav

He wrote a postcard telling us he was looking after some sheep on a hilltop-

" How cool is that...?

I'm a shepherd in Israel !"

Happy Memories.

I wonder what Phil is doing now ?