Ground Force
It’s been like a fricken gardening programme round my house the past week or so… I’m not the keenest gardener. I enjoy my garden, but when I was doing 12 hours days, 6 days a week, the last thing I wanted to do was go outside and bloody *prune*. So my garden became all ‘Day [...]
Rah! Rah!
I was a cheerleader in high school. I’m still not entirely sure why. I was on the ice hockey squad- donning my skates to risk life, limb and coccyx- to lead our half of the arena in cheer. Thankfully, I never fell on the ice during a match, but did, indeed sacrifice my coccyx during [...]
Memoirs
We took the Bullet train to Kyoto this morning and spent the afternoon wandering the streets around the temple. Tomorrow we’re going to see the Geishas perform- they only perform for the public in April… so we’re rather lucky we’re here now. We’re going early to do the tea ceremony before their performance… I took [...]
Lost In Translation
We were hit by jet lag today so didn’t leave our hotel until about noon. We first went to the Imperial Palace Gardens. I took loads of photos of flowers… then noticed that pretty much every person over the age of about 60 had a considerably better camera than I did, AND a tripod, and [...]
Still On The Plane
We’ve got about 6 hours left of our flight… but we’re on broadband, baby… This is what we’ve been up to the last few hours.
