It’s always good when you happen upon a book series by an author you don’t know, and it turns out to be very decent indeed […] Read More
It’s been 15 months since the Great East Japan Earthquake, and almost exactly a year since I was last in Iwate prefecture, where we were […] Read More
I should say up front that though I’m not an ardent camper, I do like getting outdoors and camping now and then. Before we had […] Read More
Here’s a quick Kiva update; I’m currently part way through participating in my second Kiva micro-loan. The first was to a Vietnamese metalwork shop, as […] Read More
I’ll admit that this post is two weeks late. What can I say, I’ve been busy. In my world, ‘busy’ isn’t just the day job, […] Read More
Apologies if this is a bit of a [stereo]typical image, it’s just one I snapped on a recent trip in the countryside, at a very […] Read More
I’ve been a bit busy of late and so haven’t written any posts, and I think that’s going to be the situation for a while […] Read More
Obviously an ongoing concern for many people in Japan, both in the environment and in the food chain, is that of radiation levels. To be […] Read More
I don’t usually stray into the world of politics on this blog, it’s [hopefully] meant to be informative and constructive, rather than a critique of […] Read More
After thinking about getting one for quite a while, I finally bought myself a GoPro Hero 2 camera. For those not familiar, the Hero 2 […] Read More