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…]
After idling away the morning at a ceremony to mark the beginning of the new school term David and Jaime, all dressed up in their best suits, ambled over to Mario del Sole at Shoko Centre, where they were joined by the less salubriously attired Human Computer, and a little [Read more…]
Tonight, Eri moved up one place on the “Grand Accumulated Points Chart” – without even playing a hand! What happened was that the “Ray Revival” never materialized and so Ray sank from the shallows to the depths – not quite as deeply as Kenyon, mind you, but still quite deep. [Read more…]
The 7:45 train train from Itsukaichi to Hiroshima arrives at Itsukaichi at about 7:35. It comes from Hiroshima so everybody gets off which means that it is dead easy to get a seat – ideal if you are lugging a set of golf clubs during the morning rush hour… I [Read more…]
Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that we, who for our evil deeds do worthily deserve to be punished, by the comfort of thy grace may mercifully be relieved; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen BCP: The Collect for The Fourth Sunday in Lent Midway through the Lenten [Read more…]
I felt something like old Banquo when I woke up from an afternoon snooze: a heavy summons lay like lead upon me and I would quite happily have slept for another couple of hours. The leaden feeling lasted all evening. Brutus-like, I was not gamesome and every time I made [Read more…]
Tuesday was the spring national holiday here in Japan and Dr Mogami and I had arranged to take advantage of the holiday to play mahjong with his parents from 3 o’clock in the afternoon. It took us until 9.30 pm to get through four games! In the first couple of [Read more…]
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