Kitchen Colours

To finally put your hearts at ease and see the colours of my new kitchen/dining room,
( for those who have been, the dining room is where the living room used to be), pop into your local 7/11, which for no apparent reason is now called iholdings or something,
( don’t think it will catch on) , [...]

The New Athletic Me.

So young Doris has joined a city basketball team and judging from the amount of hours she is expected to attend practice, I think she’ll be on the Olympic squad in Beijing.
Of course it isn’t enough to turn up and fill in the forms and do my share of clean up duties and make packed [...]

T.REX

For anyone who reads this and believes in the power of prayer, positive thinking, or just an Andy Sipowicz way of ‘having a good thought for’, please have a go for our friend T.Rex.
A good friend, a great man and all round terrific human being is suddenly, shockingly in the hospital and fighting the fight [...]

Not The Best Of Days.

So to go with what I believe will be my new improved organised house I decided I will become a new improved organised person.
I have to shakken ( M.O.T) my car every two years and I always ( surprise surprise) leave it until the last minute, but not this year, I took it in today [...]

Woody Woodpecker

My kitchen floor is in and I LOVE it, I love it so much I want to marry it, it is beautiful cypress pine. I also ordered wooden cabinets. The overhead ones are in and I had a moments panic that it might be too much wood.
So I asked Sunshine, I said ‘ Is it [...]

Kuroki.

This appears to be the very latest game for kids.
For whatever reason some cars now have a new kind of number plate, it is black
( kuro) with yellow ( kiiro) lettering.
It can be played by pedestrians but seems to be played largely from in the car.
What you do is keep your eyes peeled for a [...]

Questions?

Obviously I sent Uncle Brick off with a letter to say we gave him permission to escort our daughter to Canada. Not surprisingly he was not questioned leaving Japan.
He WAS questioned entering Canada,( as he should be) but then NOT, leaving.
Strange!, I the actual, scar bearing mother of the kids was questioned at length [...]

The Child Returns.

The fabulous child returned last night after her Canadian adventure, equally exciting is, I have internet access again.
My house is full of items bearing a maple leaf motif. Se had a great time .
On the off-chance that the screenplay I haven’t written yet does not win an academy award, I would like to thanks my [...]

The Man Rocks.

So here we are, still no bath, still no hot water, all our belongings squidged into cardboard boxes and stacked in available space.
I will be honest now and say the carpenter has kind of grown on me, we have settled into a comfortable little routine.
The other day at about 4 he said he was going [...]

The Sento.

The Sento is the public bathhouse. I LOVE the sento and so do the kids.
Thereis only one left in our little one horse town as almost everyone has their own bath now.
Inside is fabulous, all the old mosaic tiles, the ads on the walls hark back to the days of
4 or 5 digit phone [...]