Japanese women and Karaoke are like duracell bunnies…they keep going and going and going and going going and going and going and going going and going and going and going going and going and going and going going and going and going and going going and going and going and going going and going and … Read More

I have often been sarcastic about Ruritania and made cryptic allusions to the Queen of Ruritanias rose in my more bitter poems; `Honour! Honour and Lies, Well the Queen of Ruritania sends her rose, And it dies.’ Honour and Love, two things I can easily be bitter and cynical about because neither is as easy … Read More

Yes I love working in Japan, yes I love teaching the children, yes I even love lesson planning. But somedays I suffer for that love I really do. Like today. Tommorrow the third years are watching a video because they’ve just finished tests. Its a British Comedy I’m told and they have to fill in … Read More

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I am going to miss Radio Steve over the holidays. I think that Sundays always seem to go best when I’ve listened to him in the morning. So today; there was MSNage from somebody I’ve not spoken to in five months or thereabouts. And I have MISSED. That made the day seem suddenly lighter. I … Read More

I went to Skimble’s last night carrying, as instructed, a copy of Cold Mountain borrowed from the local Video place (coz she doesn’t have such luxuries in Nambu!). I probably would not have watched Cold Mountain were it not for Kats desire to see it. I did enjoy it though. And Nicole Kidman is a … Read More

Few movies terrify me. As in really, I don’t mean make me jump, plenty do that, I mean really fucking SCARE me. In fact I can think of two off the top of my head: The Exorcist Ring Books always always always scare me more than movies. There are too many books that scare the … Read More

This is in response to Jo’s question a couple of days ago ‘The next question is, having identified the problem, jack boots or no, what do we do about it?’. It’s also a thought that was partially blocked up by NanoWrimo and is simply expressed in a quote from Crimson Tide that Miss UD uses; … Read More

Teaching Good King Wenceslas to adults has occaisionally pained me. Today though I reap my reward. They know the words…kinda! In the Japanese language there is no ‘la’ sound, instead it is ‘ra’ which makes things a little difficult at times. Today the thought was possitted that the page and monarch were going forth through … Read More

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