In seeking to breach the lofty walls of our castle we have bethought us of the necessity of constructing a siege tower. We do not yet have such a multitude of Lego bricks to allow us to build a perfectly conceived engine of war as is pictured below. We do [Read more…]
Our local shrine, Shioya Jinja, in the western outskirts of Hiroshima, held its annual summer festival last Saturday. Summer shrine festivals here in Hiroshima usually include a performance of kagura as the main event. Kagura is a form of sacred Shinto dance in celebration of the seasons and folklore of [Read more…]
History in English Lesson: Having made some headway through the XXIst chapter of Gibbon‘s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in which the early church dispute over the relationship of the Son to the Father, the homoousion or “consubstantial” position of the the Orthodox party (which itself included a [Read more…]
Earlier this month I read this important history of the English Reformation by Ethan H. Shagan. Popular Politics and the English Reformation is a study of popular responses to the English Reformation rather than an attempt to count how many (or few) English people “really” converted to Protestantism or remained [Read more…]
Yippee! We are off to Kagoshima and Miyazaki for our summer holidays in the second half of August! It will be our second visit to southern Kyushu in two years. Last summer we flew to Miyazaki from the good old Hiroshima Kannon airport, conveniently located in the south of Hiroshima [Read more…]
I only discovered Patrick Leigh Fermor in 2006 when I read paperback editions of his two travel books, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, published by John Murray in 2004. I was intrigued to see that he was still alive at the time of publication [Read more…]
This afternoon’s Lego Kingdoms minifigures scenario took the arts of investing and defending the Lego Kingdom Castle to new heights. Today, the Lego Kingdom knights adopted a more prudent defence than usual… Mr Ardle arrived armed with standard strength ale and a powerful bb gun which turned a tuppenny-ha’penny Green [Read more…]
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