Just as we were thinking about trying another mahjong parlour in Noda’s absence the old boy signalled his return to Hiroshima by sending out enquiries about tonight’s game so we agreed to return to Kodama. And the evening was marked by Jaime’s continuing revival despite a brief look at negative [Read more…]
I got a bit carried away in the TOEFL class tonight and in a fit of enthusiasm I began to hack a sentence to bits on the blackboard, separating pluperfect progressive from simple past and unravelling all the odds and sods so that the class could see why the only [Read more…]
A quiet evening of mahjong saw Noda off form at the table for the second week running… Jaime was the fastest off the blocks and built himself a nice margin of safety in the first game and still had some of it left by the end of the evening! David [Read more…]
I made two visits to the doctor’s this week. The first was on Monday when we settled down to read about the dominance of Bismark on the German scene, his use of expediency to unite the German territories excluding Austria, and about the Kulturkampf waged between the German state and [Read more…]
Ray, Kenyon and David welcomed Jaime back to Hiroshima with a couple of drinks at Kemby’s. Today was a national holiday dedicated to “Bunka” or “Culture” so what better way to mark it than by playing Mahjong? Mama opened the mahjong parlour especially for us and Noda came to fish [Read more…]
Archbish Emeritus Desmond and the Dalai Lama arrived in Hiroshima today along with their fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams. They were presiding over some sort of peace conference with a stiff entrance fee. However, after that was done and dusted Desmond Tutu and Betty williams took part in [Read more…]
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