michael lambe

While I was out at work today (slaving) some workmen came and brutalised the tree outside my window. Look what they’ve done to it! They do this every sodding year just before the trees have a chance to enter their autumn finery. And it’s not just the trees outside my window. IT’S ALL OVER JAPAN. The Japanese have a horrible relationship with nature (of which this is but one example) and they regard falling autumn leaves as an untidy nuisance. A nuisance! What’s with that?

Pretty soon more workmen will be moving up and down Imadegawa Street and Shirakawa Street and stripping the glorious golden crowns off of the gingko trees, leaving only sad stumpy maimed twiggy things like the thing on the left. That’s what they leave us to look at till late spring when the trees finally get over the shock of this abuse.
It breaks my heart.

It’s at times like these that I feel the need for dancing pandas.

And this video, below, made me laugh (quite a bit).