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Month: April 2009

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Eliot On Lilacs And The Burial Of The Dead & Nobu’s Game Of Mahjong.

April 26, 2009 David Hurley 1

It was old T. S. Eliot who opined that April was the cruellest month. Something to do with innocent lilacs and the burial of the dead… … which reminds me, last Friday Nobu-san appeared on the scene, lilac like, like a harbinger of spring and joined Noda and I for [Read more…]

How Like Unto A Dwarf Wisteria Is My Game Of Japanese Mahjong

April 19, 2009 David Hurley 4

As my afternoon and evening classes had been cancelled I was able to pop back to the homestead where I thought I might indulge in a quiet afternoon nap and woke up about four hours later. Thus refreshed I hopped onto the tram into town and hopped off at Kamiyacho [Read more…]

Missing Link An Embarrassment To The Fossil Record!

April 3, 2009 David Hurley 6

Have You Seen The Missing Link? Events took a surprising turn while I was away on my hols in February. A game was played, the only game of the month, but the scoresheet went missing. It was a rum do, the first missing link in our evolution, and an embarrassment [Read more…]

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