Falling Apart.

As my two fabulous daughters are in the first flush of youth I seem to be falling part physically.
Felt like crap all day, sick and stiff with a sore neck.
My thoughts lingered on meningitis, because that is my default panic button, but the stiff neck is probably from lying on the sofa watching too [...]

Snaps

The Headlines.

The past week with The Cousins has spawned a lot of possible news headlines.
Mother throws own son from moving vehicle.
Killer Fish
Scotswoman in raccoon massacre.
Locals scared by flesh in bath
Tourists Lost In Nara Woods
Tourists Found In Nara Woods
Woman dies laughing at man in transparent trunks on beach.
2 more weeks, more headlines to come.

The Beach

We had a few enjoyable days at a beach in Wakayama. The weather didn’t look very beachworthy when we left but things picked up. The water wasn’t too cold either and the chicklets were in almost all day.
We rented a wooden cabin type thing and had a BBQ, there was a gang of wild tanukis [...]

What’s Up With This Weather?

It is the end of August, in Japan and I am wearing my woolly cardy? what’s up with that?
Before the cousins came, I told them on the phone, I cannot possibly over state HOW HOT IT IS HERE!!
In the last week we have had the worst summer weather I have ever known. ( I think [...]

Today Is The Day

The long awaited day arrives, the day the cousins come to Japan.
I am so excited, I have had lots and lots of friends visit in the 18 years I have been here, but very few family members.
So things will be busy , we are going to the beach for a couple of days on Thursday [...]

Manifesting.

So I ordered what looked to be some great organic coffee from the co-op and when it came it was coffee beans. I had no idea. I don’t have a grinder so I decided I must go out and buy one soon. Costco does a huge bag of coffee with hazlenut too, but I never [...]

What is it about kids and beetles?

Sadly this particular beetle went the way of the tanuki and the fish, OMG I am seeing a pattern emerge, really that is a lot of animal deaths in one week, for one family???
Anyway, Kev and the little girl pictured above thought, they might pop a pin in the back of the dead beetle and [...]

Non Martha Handy Hint for Cooking

You know when you are outside, barbecueing, and sometimes you might get a bit of smoke in your eye, or a piece of wanton ash, or perhaps your older brother is spitting watermelon seeds at you hoping to provoke you for no apparent reason other than provoking you is number one in his skill set….

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek proved to still be a popular game among the younger set.

While others tried those well worn routes like behind the sofa, behind the door, under the bed, Kev was really rather inventive, he dumped all the dried food stuffs out of the cool storage built into the kicthen floor for [...]