Mrs M and I listened to our (pirated) copy of Back To Black in the car the...
Mrs M is now seven months’ pregnant (or eight if you count them the Japanese way), and...
Mrs M is pregnant! Actually she’s been pregnant since late last year, but I’ve waited until well...
I first read Catch-22 as a sixteen year old, and it tapped right in to my teenager’s...
Partly because it was my first time under canvas for three years, and partly because it was...
Even though I have been learning it for eight years, my Japanese is still rubbish. This is...
I had my morning carton of coffee, microwaved hotto cakey and fruit-cocktail-suspended-in-jelly on a bench overlooking the...
Last week I bought a new bicycle – a sort of road / mountain hybrid – for...
The hard-to-understand and hard-to-deal-with caretaker was back from his holidays, and had been collecting rubbish on the...
A couple of weeks after I moved to Ibaraki nearly six years ago (I stayed for just...
