Gran Torino 2.

What an excellent day! The film was worth every penny. I had great coffee and chat with Sue Me. She was roped in for double yakkuin duties last year so we fell out of our cinema going pattern. The game is back on.
Got home, shortly thereafter the chicklets came in and we hoofed into ‘town’ [...]

Gran Torino.

Have I mentioned before how brilliant I think this film is. It’s so fabulous, that even though I have already seen it, I am willingly going to dole out 1,000 yen of my hard earned cash to go to the cinema and watch it again.
Today in Nara, is ‘Ladies Day’ ( ‘I’m a LADY you [...]

Spending and Bike Riding.

A rare Saturday off gave us the chance to go visit the outlaws.
Sunshine of course had better things to do but the other three were up for it.
The morning we whiled away watching Survivor and playing Bookworm, Doris reached the dizzy heights of ‘assistant librarian’ which I thought was quite impressive.
Managed a quick [...]

There’s Nothing.

I have nothing today. It’s been a strange few days really with Feet and Sleuth’s departure and not knowing when I’ll see them again, and the teacher visits and the slow wind down after the whole yakkuin stress thing. I feel at a loss for inspiration.
It didn’t help that I read this morning that they [...]

Teacher Teacher.

Katteihoumon today. This is where the teacher comes to visit you in your home. What joy!
Today was Doris’ teacher from JHS.
So along came a dapper chap in pinstripe trews clutching his files, to have a chat about young Doris who he has known for all of , what? two weeks now.
There are, of course, convoluted [...]

Abandoned!

Somehow this got written but not posted yesterday afternoon.
The weeks flew by and now they’re gone. I’ve been abandoned.
Feet and Sleuth have bravely boarded the shinkansen to Tokyo.
The fun and games are over for now.
Now the wonderful Ditoh in Tokyo will be getting all the love and all the laffs.
I’m stuck here, Billy bloody no-mates, [...]

Great New Discoveries.

One of the oh -so- very- many issues I battle with my son over, is the cleanliness, or lack of, as it happens ,in the area of his fingernails.
He doesn’t like to cut them or have them cut, so I always have to physically grab him and I let him leave one [...]

The Weekend Comes.

Up at dawn’s first crack, tending my crops. Morning Glories just started poking through, rocket shoots, coriander shoots, beans still racing up the fence.
A glorious day weather wise.
Kev has already had, not one, but two meltdowns. One over a polite request to please change his filthy T-shirt, the second over my failure to inform him [...]

It’s Raining Beans.

24 hours of torrential rain on my newly planted garden and the beans are sprinting up the fence like skinny pole vaulters.
Bright sunshine today.
We had a mosey around my one horse town and booked some tickets for the Shinkansen ( bullet train).
A satisfying brunch where we exchanged stories of sitting next to complete whack-jobs [...]

Gardening for Dummies.

I’ll take a break ( for a second) from ripping the piss out of Feet, because he has proved himself to be a wonderful natural resource. The man is a veritable mine of gardening information.
In just two days of superb weather, I have gone from knowing a little bit about the garden ( like where [...]