One Year

‘In other news I should probably announce that I am currently in a relationship….yeah that probably caught a lot of you off guard huh? Me too…I mean despite the fact that I did ask him about three weeks ago if, since he was considering a relationship, why not consider one with me. I didn’t actually … Read More





Japanese Women and Karaoke

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


Ruritania 1 Mish 0

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


Day Of Hell

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



A Very Good Day

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


Hollywood Endings

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