This evening at Kodama went on for longer than anticipated and was full of incident and variety. The first thing that greeted us on entering the mahjong parlour was the site of Noda’s Mask. Noda had a cold and spent much of the evening coughing and spluttering like an old [Read more…]
Suffering from indigestion during a crucial portion of the afternoon of 18th June 1815, the Upstart Emperor of the French removed himself from the field of battle to seek relief by lying down in a barn. I don’t know if Jaime spent the evening lying down in a barn but [Read more…]
Hermann Knell was nineteen when his city was destroyed in an air-raid in March 1945. Knell wonders why Würzburg was destroyed beyond any military necessity. Why was strategic bombing pursued beyond all humane considerations? German Zeppelins bombed London and Paris in World War One. The British found aerial bombing a [Read more…]
Jaime was the starting Oya in the first game and opened the scoring by taking 12,000 points off David in the first hand and 13,000 off Noda in the second, however, those two players then took the next two hands and ended up in the black. The second game progressed [Read more…]
In 1966 a national Health and Sports Day holiday was established on 10th October to commemorate the Tokyo Olympics of 1964. Then, in 2,000, several national holidays were moved to Monday to give the working masses several three-day weekends to enjoy during the course of the year. So now Health [Read more…]
Went on a trip to the zoo today. Asa Zoo is a fairly mouldy sort of zoo near Hiroshima. Little E somehow knew that there were “ressapanda” there and after we had had our fill of the fighing apes and the pitiful “frog exhibition” little E went marching down the [Read more…]
Noda dominated the first half of the evening. Kenyon was relieved to be sat on his left and therefore out of the games in which Noda presided as Oya. Kenyon’s approach seemed more cautious than usual. Here we have a photo of how he responded to Jaime’s Double Riichi declaration [Read more…]
Noda-san was away on business in China getting his bag stolen at a trade show. In the early part of the evening we were joined by Tim and Don and thoroughly distracted by the football talk and the fall out at Chelsea, Don’s team. Don professes not to be interested [Read more…]
The port of Sasebo is four stops up the line from Huis Ten Bosch. We took the hydrofoil from there across to Kamigoto, the main northern island group of the Goto island archipelago. We hired a car and spent the late afternoon and the next morning driving around (sometimes round [Read more…]
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