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Container gardening
The joys of container gardening are not to be overlooked. On my tiny balcony, I’ve got a healthy dose of nature. And most of it is edible: mint, rosemary, sage, basil, marjoram, thyme, parsely, bay. What’s not edible is flowering: daisy, lavender, marigold, impatiens, pinks, petunia. It gets my attention every day. I water it,…
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Unveiling mediatinker
It’s been well over a year since I registered my domain but haven’t worked on a site for it…the shoemaker’s children and all that. Today I’ve completed my professional website, to complement my personal site and this one. I’m pleased to unveil media tinker. It needs some additional tweaking, but it’s “done enough” for you…
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Sapporo Lion Ginza
From the street, it’s pretty unremarkable, just another Sapporo Lion beer hall with a display of plastic food in a big, modern building. But stepping inside this place was a surprise. This beer hall was designed and built by Eizou Sugawara in 1934. It’s gorgeous. It’s an art deco cavern. At the far end, a…
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My kitchen sings
My kitchen sings a symphony of morningtime domesticity. The watery swish and thump of the washer sets the tempo for an 18 minute concerto. The coffemakers clucks and chirps melodiously. The psst of spray cleaner on the countertop, whisper of sponge, and the legato smoothness of water from the tap join in the chorus. The…
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Get me out of here
I’m itching to get out of Tokyo for a daytrip. In the first two years we lived here, we often went for hikes or short trips on the weekends. We travelled all over Japan on these little jaunts. But the last two years have been more settled–on the weekends we have social engagements, work commitments,…
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Astronomy links
I’ve always been fascinated by things in the night sky; when I was a little girl I wanted to be an astronaut. I memorized sky charts and read all the classic science fiction epics. Living in a city, I don’t get to see the night sky, so I content myself with NASA’s Astronomy Picture of…
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Food news
Two articles in today’s news: Police raid firm in Mister Donut caseGov’t to abolish Food Agency The juxtaposition generates amusing ideas about what the Food Agency is doing. Covert food ops, no doubt.
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Slogging blogging
What’s happened to my schedule? It’s a quarter to 4 in the afternoon and I’m just now realising I didn’t blog this morning. Maybe all the computer troubles around me are throwing me off kilter. Yesterday’s chicken-waving session with MJ didn’t yield any useful results and today I’m in my office fighting with Premiere 6.…
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Denzuin
Ack! It’s 11:45 in the morning and haven’t blogged yet today. I’ve been caught up in writing an article and answering e-mail. Now I have to leave to go wave a dead chicken at MJ’s computer so forgive me if all I give you today is a photo series. This is Denzuin, an old and…
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Children’s procession
As we prepared to leave the house yesterday morning, we heard drumming echoing around the neighborhood. “Hey, let’s go find that!” I said. I’m always interested in local festivals. As it turns out, the drumming came to us. We left the building, we saw a parade of children and parents pulling a little shrine at…
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