Category: Daily Life
I can’t see it back there.
There is a kind of DIY shop here in Okazaki called D2 (or デイツ) which has pretty much everything for in and around the home, and at fairly competitive prices (IMHO). Anyways I have seen a number ... Read More
It snowed.
Well the weather was right. It snowed. Had about 5 cm in the morning. Nice and crunchy underfoot. Wrote my name in the snow…. with a stick. heheh. That was about it. Had to sweep the path clean ... Read More
It only snows once a year.
According to the weather page it’s going to snow tomorrow. Didn’t have any over Christmas and January. We may be lucky to get just one day. Sorry, let me correct that, it did snow today fo... Read More
Seven days straight.
I have managed to do entries on seven consecutive days this week. Ohh, break out the champagne. Anyways time for lunch. 図書館へいきます。 This afternoon have got to go to the library and ret... Read More
If others are doing it then so am I.
I have seen a few Japanese blogs (ブログ) where the authors have been writing in English which has motivated me (a litle) to start doing a few (entries/lines/words) in Japanese. Don’t expect ... Read More
Ignore it and it’ll go away.
Today we were at an intersection and a building at the intersection was being repaired/painted (something!) and they had an old ojii-san (old man) with his red baton to direct traffic – never mi... Read More
Don’t get busted eating anything but Lamb this Australia Day.
Today is Australia Day and I bet all foreigners must be sick as pigs. In the spirit of Australia/being “Australian” here are the posters from Meat and Livestock Australia’s new Lamb ... Read More
Let it snow? Let it…snow?
We should have had some snow by now here in Okazaki (based on when it has snowed in previous years), but so far nothing. Aren’t we going to get any snow this year? Maybe not. It sure “feel... Read More
Still in Rome.
I wrote about “When In Rome” last year. It seems that it must either be me or that intersection near the side street, but today what did we see? Not an old woman, but this time an old man ... Read More
What’s in a name?
Until recently Kiyomi has been using her maiden name in Japan and Australia. We decided (for a number of reasons) that she should change her family name to mine. The procedure to do this in Japan is a... Read More