michael lambe

John Dougill sent me a copy of his “Kyoto: A Cultural History” to review on Deep Kyoto and so far I like what I read:
Throughout the year succesive waves of colour break upon the city. Plum and peach blossom heralds the more famous cherry, after which follow azalea and iris. In summer come hydrangea, water [...]

Well, I’m afraid I still can’t be bothered blogging for proper, as I’m tired and sleepy and I already wrote this once and then half-way-thru the server went down and I lost most of what I’d written and you know things I want to blog for proper about, I want to blog for proper [...]

I’m beat. Been walking all day, round Yoshida and Kurodani, with a big bag of books on my back. Now various parts of me are aching like an old man. Well, if you double click on the pictures below you can get a better look (and there is some explanatory text too). There are some [...]

Here are some more plum blossoms form my neighborhood. Just double-click on the pics for a better look. This album is powered by BubbleShare – Add to my blog There’s a definite spring-like feeling in the air these days… birdsong is noisier. Students are friendlier, in fact… everyone’s friendlier… and livelier and sort of… bouncier. [...]

Time for another eatery recommendation! Little Bamboo on Shirakawa Dori serves nice healthy organic foodage with whole grain brown rice cooked in yoghurt. The yoghurt gives the rice extra nutritional value; lots of those all important B vitamins, good for your skin, stomach… and lots of other bits I can’t remember. This is quite close [...]

Anyone see Japan play Australia last night? I tuned in for the last (and most important) 15 minutes and what a funny game eh? I especially liked the scenes after the match of the delighted dancing Aussie fans and the speechless Japanese. Today, at school, I kept accidentally dropping the name “Australia” into different contexts. [...]

It’s June, it’s getting hotter and stickier and my lolling students are melting all over their desks. “Hot” they murmer, “Sleepy… hungry…” they gasp, and that old favorite “I don’t know…” is often whimpered as their heads sink deskwards. None of this is said in English of course. No fear of that.
I’ve started growing stuff [...]

First off: my mate Rik is officially a genius. Click here:
http://rik.typepad.com/blog/2004/04/norwegian_bluet.html
Also if you haven’t seen Tim Burton’s “The Corpse Bride” yet, you should. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/corpse_bride/
It’s a lot of fun. I especially liked the puppets with the voices of Christopher Lee (Christopher Lee! – What a chap!) and Albert Finney. But I shan’t tell you which ones [...]

鯉のぼり　- Carp streamers. They signify something or other and they look nice too.
Despite the terrible weather we’ve had of late, the sakura has held out very well…
Sometimes they look so lovely I just want to take a big bite out of them…

Aaaahhhh…

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