Lag Ba'omer

Today is Lag Ba'omer. If you're not used to Israeli holidays this one may come as a surprise. As far as I can tell, it's mainly kids, collecting supermarket trolleys, filling them up with whatever wood they can lay their hands on, piling it all in a heap and then setting light to it. Three year old boys get their first haircuts. The fire department gets a workout. I get to stay home and fend off the ravening hordes from my stock of wood. Building contractors get depressed, drink too much and go wild after all their scaffolding goes up in smoke. We will survive.

Oddly enough, this appears (only to me ) not one of those Jewish festivals which can be best summarised as 'They tried to kill us, they failed, let's eat'.