A slightly belated greeting into 2016, which we’ll be calling Heisei 28. It’s all about the reign of the Emperors, and is designed to confuse […] Read More
Author: gurahamu
It’d been quite a few weeks since I’d been out on the motorbike for a day trip, so when my old friend CS offered up […] Read More
We were out in the agricultural hills of central Kanagawa prefecture a couple of weeks ago, and stopped off at the 90 year old home […] Read More
I’ve covered Kiva a few times over the years I’ve been ‘lending’ through it, so I thought I’d put up a post about where I […] Read More
Imagine if there was a place called ‘such is life’. Well, potentially in Japan, there is, and it’s a huge dam. The Shouganai dam. I […] Read More
We like to get out camping regularly, so I thought I should add one of the recent places we stayed at since I haven’t added […] Read More
One thing that seems to happen all over the world, are hoaxes and frauds, like Piltdown Man, crop circles and Justin Bieber being a lizard, to […] Read More
Another new year is upon us – 2015, or heisei (平成) 27 by the local system – so Happy New Year, or Akemashite Omedetougozaimasu as […] Read More
Yes – I managed to complete a 50,000 plus word ‘novel’ in November and win NaNoWriMo 2014! Lets get the stats out of the way […] Read More
So I’ve completed day 8 of NaNoWriMo 2014, and the best way to describe it thus far is ‘not bad‘. I came into this year’s […] Read More