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Home again, home again.
Home again, home again. London has really great sandwiches; British women all wear cosmetics; the Tube is ridiculously expensive; salaries are not commensurate with the cost of living in London; the ham in Buckingham (and Hampstead, Nottingham, West Ham) is from the Old English word for home; the growl of a Lancaster bomber flying over…
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I’m off to London
I’m off to London this morning. The car to the airport is due to arrive in just over an hour. I’m ready, but now begins the race to get Tod up, dressed and out the door on time. He has coffee at his bedside, but I’m afraid it isn’t working yet. In a few minutes…
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Shortly before I was
Shortly before I was assigned to review it as part of the Peer to Peer Review Project, Kaye Ellis ended For Always. What a pity; Kaye is a promising writer. Her prose is clear and expressive with a strong voice that carries emotion. She has a natural gift that many ‘blog writers lack. In the…
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Cogaru Club
Cogaru Club! Only 18,000 yen! What’s Cogaru? According to Jeffrey’s Japanese-English Dictionary she is an “obsessively trend-conscious teen-age girls who may offer themselves for enjou kousai [ aka “compensated dating”] with older men in order to finance their lifestyle.” This leaflet appeared in my mailbox last night. In addition to listing off the sexual treats…
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Civic view
The view from the top of the Bunkyo Civic Center is really beautiful. It’s the highest building around and has a semicircular viewing lounge and restaurant on the 25th floor. We dined there last night and got a bird’s eye view of our neighborhood and the metropolis. To the west, the Shinjuku skyscrapers huddled together…
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Random names
Another entry in the Buildings with Strange Names series, Random Koishikawa houses a hardware store in the basement, a doctor on the first floor and offices on the upper floors. En Es Tee has offices on 2 and 4 but different company with a very long name in kanji (another sign for them reads “Human…
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Sushi
My passion for sushi waxes and wanes. Over the past four years, it’s been waning more than waxing which seems a bit odd since I live where sushi originates. There are a few places that I enjoy, even when all I get is vegetable makki and ebi. One of them is Edokko Sushi in Kanda.…
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Rich man, poor man
Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief. Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. What do I want to be when I grow up? I must be going through a career crisis at the moment. Yesterday I spent 7 hours programming and documenting 21 lines of PHP code. It was fun, but difficult. Last week, I had a…
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Family birthday clusters
Why do family birthdays seem to cluster together? Are there genetic cycles of fertility? My niece, Helen, turned ten on Wednesday; today is my sister’s birthday; mine is in three days. My in-laws have birthdays mainly in late autumn except for my husband and our nephew who share a birthday in early May. It’s odd.…
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