I headed into town on the tram this afternoon with my head stuck in a book I received for Christmas, The Retreat of Reason, by Anthony Browne, published by Civitas. It is a critique of “political correctness and the corruption of public debate in modern Britain” and on its cover [Read more…]
On December 27th, the Feast of St John the Evangelist, I found myself back at the Doc’s for a festive afternoon of mahjong. The “revelation” I received was this – Doctor M junior was right! When we first began to play mahjong he prophesied that I might suffer at the [Read more…]
With Noda absent tonight the foreign contingent elected to head back to Koyo Jansou, the cosy place in Tatemachi with the cheerful Mama-san and the old play-worn tiles. Tonight’s result didn’t bring a change in the rankings. Kenyon progressed, Jaime’s recovery stalled and David managed to change direction from down [Read more…]
It has come to my attention that a message which I sent out by electronic mail to a list of worthy recipients was received with some perturbation of spirit. Murmerings arose among my intended readership to the effect that the said electronic message was “unreadable”. I admit and freely confess [Read more…]
I was attending a birthday party tonight so did not play mahjong. Tonight’s “zero” score was a marked improvement on my recent form. I leave it to Jaime to file the report: “When I first started playing mahjong in 2000 I cobbled together a strategy of how to simplify the [Read more…]
I arrived at Yano station at about a quarter to ten this morning, half an hour behind schedule as I had missed the 9:03 from Hiroshima. Jaime was already at Yano when I got there and we took a taxi up to the football pitches a few miles into the [Read more…]
It happened. David’s 4th quarter loss of form has seen him plunge from “third and in the black” (30th September) right down through the ranks to bottom in December! The very first hand of the first game provided a foretaste of his fortunes for the evening. Noda declared Riichi and [Read more…]
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