Hello. I hope you all had a lovely Easter with lots of eggy goodness. Today a delightful young chap from NTT came round and reconnected me to the interwomb with a nice new fibre-optic umbilical. I feel whole again. Lots of things have been going on. I’ve moved to a new place with mostly good aspects (spacious! convenient! 10 minutes from work!), and one slight drawback (the teeniness of the kitchen). I’ve had my bank account raided and emptied by Mr Tsujii of the National Health insurance bureaucracy (which was a wee bit scary till I actually went to see him and he was quite reasonable in his own way and everything turned out nice again…). I’ve started a new job where I have to bow to the school at the gates when I’m leaving and entering (which perversley I kind of like) and everyone gets their own computer (wow!) and the students are shy but very nice… I’ve attended a couple of entertaining hanami parties (pictures later – too tired now). I’ve watched the Doctor Who Easter special “Planet of the Dead” and thoroughly enjoyed it and think they should have brought that Bionic Eastenders lass on fulltime (but I expect her fee is in direct proportion to her levels of hottyness and so they can’t afford her). And last night I went to see Donal Lunny at TakuTaku with Mewby and Ted Taylor. If you don’t know who Donal Lunny is – go away. I expect Ted will be blogging about the show later as he was taking notes last night (did he find a better word than thwack I wonder?) but I’m going to add my two-pennyworth anyway. Here’s my review:

It was really good. Why weren’t you there?

Now I want to make my brother-in-law jealous with the picture below. I also put a nice video up on Deep Kyoto here. Here’s the picture

(left to right: Miu Takahashi, Ted Axl Taylor, Donal Lunny and Michael Lambe).

Many thanks to Mr. Lunny for taking a moment from the endless signage to have his picture taken with a bunch of strangers (such a nice man!), thanks to Miu for the lend of the camera (such a nice girl!), and thanks to Ted for the beer (he’s quite nice too).