Category: Daily Life
No more gold.
Golden week has nearly come to a close and people will be getting “back to normal” — as I’ve had a bit of free time this week it’s enabled me to get some garden work done... Read More
Water it and it’ll grow.
We (I) have been working on the garden this (golden) week as there have hardly been any students this week – everyone is on holiday, we’ve finished putting bricks around the side of the ya... Read More
Little Miss Muscles.
No it’s not the title of a Mr Men (Little Miss) book, just a description of Maia. Recently she’s been starting to discover her upper body strenght and picking up evything in sight. Her (sm... Read More
Walk, drive and wave.
Every year on the second Sunday of April, Okazaki has a parade called Ieyasu Gyoretsu. It’s quite an event, as pretty much all of Okazaki turns out to see it. Here are some pics, of course you c... Read More
Someone’s one.
Happy Birthday Maia. A lot has happened this last year – born, smiling, turning over and around, getting up and crawling, trying to stand, taking your first step and falling, starting to walk, s... Read More
Pick it up.
After sending the things we bought in Australia to Japan, we received notice that they’d arrived and could now pick them up etc. We received a bill of lading which we took the shipping company (... Read More
Not going to get me.
Ever since we came back after our holiday to Australia I’ve been fairly worried about “catching something” – going from one climate (Aus – Hot) to another (Japan – ... Read More
Only twice a year.
It snowed today – this is the second time this year it’s snowed. Once in late January (I think) and now in December. Wow, twice in one year, it must be some kind of record for Okazaki! &nb... Read More
A year (and a couple of days) already?
Wow, it’s been over a year already time has just flown. It seems like last week we were cleaning out the room where we’d be working and buying the paint to give it a make over, then we sta... Read More
On the road to recovery.
I have been getting over this “cold” for 5 days now. While I am getting better it seems to be taking a hell of a long time to do so. Agh. I mean is it that hard to speed things up? It woul... Read More