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…from Joao last Saturday evening. Yutaka (right) and his cousin Manabu (left):

Mewby and Me:

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I’m not sure how this got started or whose idea it was (probably Yutaka’s) but we (Betty, Mewby, Yoshida-kun, Yutaka and me) had a kind of impromptu takoyaki party at my house last Saturday. A lot of booze was consumed. And a lot of octopus balls.  And then the experimentation began… Shrimp balls were quite [...]

Great party the other night. The most memorable thing though was discovering that Massun is in fact Edward Furlong. Here are a couple of pictures for your perusal. I won’t even bother labeling them because they are so clearly the same person.

This is my favorite picture of the evening though.

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Ha! Ghastly November is finally over! Actually I realised that part of my gloom last month was simply down to a lack of exercise. Catching a cold and feeling terrible kept me out of the gym for almost 3 weeks. When I got back in there I did exactly 6 squats and then immediately felt [...]

Just some pictures from the weekend:
Saturday was Mewby’s birthday and a full day it was, wandering round the Arts flea market on Sanjo, admiring the Nihonga exhibition in the Museum of Kyoto, buying our friend Setchan a wee wedding present, enjoying a nice cuppa surrounded by antiques in Cafe David and culminating in a gorgeous [...]

My favorite monster…

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For some time now Ted has been doing a thirty-three temple pilgrimage round Kansai. He only had one more left to do, on an island in Lake Biwa named Chikubujima and he invited us to join him for the occasion. I’m sure he’ll write up his own thoughts on the day but here’s a pictorial [...]

My old friend and former colleague in the bookselling trade Dani Hall, has a new business entitled “The Literary Gift Company”. It sounds and looks marvellous!
The Literary Gift Company was born out of a family book-selling business. Dani, who created The Literary Gift Company, had been searching for ideas to make unwanted, unsellable and out-of-date [...]

I don’t think I have mentioned it before but my old college buddy, Craig Meulen, is currently teaching and studying at a renowned Buddhist monastical institute in Himachal Pradesh, India. He has a blog about his experiences there and it is worth checking out.
The ‘real’ Dharamsala is not so high and is very Indian. The [...]

Just some pictures I never had a chance to post before. First a few pictures from this year’s 花見 in early April.
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And then some pictures from Udo and Fumi’s visit in Golden Week. They start at Myoushinji, then Fushimi Inari and finally a balcony on Pontocho in the [...]