This year’s production of The Taming of the Shrew by the International Theatre Company London was a great success here at Jogakuin University, Hiroshima. Every May the International Theatre Company tours Japan performing a Shakespeare play and of the three I have seen (Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, The Taming [Read more…]
Jaime and I got off the train at Kaita-Ichi and headed for the taxi rank. The driver had to be prized out of another taxi where he and his fellows were hanging out together. The next difficulty was in getting the driver to understand where we were going – i.e. [Read more…]
After tangling with the complexities of the endgame of the Thirty Years War with Dr Mogami across the mahjong table in one of his father’s upper rooms we cleared away books and maps and whiteboards and markers and pulled the cover off the mahjong table. The senior Mogamis came in [Read more…]
While I was away Noda, Jaime and Kenyon played a game of mahjong which Jaime described over on this page of his blog. Those three met up again on 12th May and David joined them in time for the second game. There were once again two Chombos committed during the [Read more…]
Here is a photo of my late father, Patrick John Hurley (1934-2006), when he was fourteen. It was taken in 1948, in the back garden of his grandparents’ house in Leytonstone, London. He has recently become an uncle and his holding his nephew, Peter. Dad was born in May 1934 [Read more…]
On Friday 21st April Noda, Jaime and Ray met at Kodama and played a couple of games in which Ray made a bid to move off the bottom of the Grand Accumulated Points Table by racking up a healthy lead of +72. David arrived in time to join the third [Read more…]
We supposed that it must have been pay day at Mazda because shortly after we started playing at Kodama tonight the place filled up with salary men and then with smoke. Nor were there so many of the usual crowd but various geezers who we had never seen before – [Read more…]
After a 90-minute “History in English” class during which Dr Mogami jr and I sat at the mahjong table in his father’s guest room and read through the chapter on the Thirty Year’s War in Steven Ozment’s book of German history, A Mighty Fortress, we tossed the study materials to [Read more…]
Tonight was an ideal evening for a cherry blossom viewing party – not the “freeze your bollocks off” weather so typical of early April hanami parties… A small group of ex-Lang students had arranged a party and four regulars from the Cockseye Mahjong Club joined them for a couple of [Read more…]
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