Changing Gears.

So off went Withering this morning, back to the Motherland via Helsinki, the end of a truly fantastic week. Thanks so much for coming all this way!
Feeling a bit maudling about it really so leapt straight into a can of Heinz tomato soup so kindly received from said friend. That cheered me up a bit [...]

Yoga, Karaoke and Twister.

We’ve have been having a great week, now that we have put the horrors of the cooking class behind us. Wednesday we toddled off to Nara City to see the Daibutsu, the biggest Buddha in the world, or in Japan, or in Nara, it’s really big anyway, and I’ve been a trillion times because guests [...]

Macrobiotic class.

So withering and I went to the class. I think I have mentioned before , that when doing anything with Japanese people who have never been in the prescence of anyone who is not Japanese before, there is the potential for embarrassment, or humiliation, or disappointment or just plain hurtfullness.
Today’s class included all of the [...]

Out To The Airport ( and back)

Up at dawn’s first crack to get to the airport and pick up Withering. My friend from way back in the day when we both thought we’d be rich and famous, haven’t seen her in at least 20 years.
I lost count of the number of people who said, ” 20 years! what if you don’t [...]

Chickens and Meditation.

Chicken is getting freaky big and I am not liking it so much. Don’t tell my friend ‘Withering’ who comments here from time to time, because she is arriving in Japan on Saturday morning and she has some sort of intense chicken phobia.
Well hopefully she is arriving Saturday, but reports are that in the usual [...]

First date Attire.

Jim and his Gal had their ‘deito’ yesterday. we went to pick up the lovely Blue Summer, she looked fabulous in a flurry of pink, like she’d be swinging by a Barbie convention at the beach the minute this was over.
Jim on the hand had gone dressed prepared. He had on a hooded rain jacket, [...]

Kev Behaves and Jim Has a Date.

Tis true, Kev has been fab the last few days, I’m sure it has nothing whatsoever to do with *someone* gently floating the idea that good behaviour may be rewarded with a new DS soft he has been after a while. Why that is tantamount to bribery and surely I would never stoop so low. [...]

Why We Should Not have Teenagers# 497

Out shopping with Sunshine last weekend, I pointed to a lovely skirt.
I only pointed to it because she had specifically said she might get a skirt, I have learned not to just randomly suggest things I’d like to see her in. She said,
” It’s too long, it’ll cover my legs, there’s no point covering my [...]

Nelson Mandela.

I know you’re all dying to know what I did today, chomping at the bit for photos of my lunch, well I’ll tell ya!
I had an easy day, I went out early, forgoing my morning walk to meet a friend for coffee. I returned, I did PO and banking stuff without any gaijinity incidents. I [...]

Mother’s Day.

Mother’s Day yesterday and I’m a mother, so it was my day. My number one choice of things to do on Mother’s Day actually don’t include my children. Perhaps I am an uncaring, unfeeling stone-hearted wench like Kevin says I am, but I get to spend SOOOO much time with them on other days, I’d [...]