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…]
Kodama jansou was busy on Saint Patrick’s Day with most of the tables in use (not that the Japanese were aware that it was Saint Paddy’s Day) and the Cock’s Eye Club also had a good turnout with five players playing and five games played. Of those five players, four [Read more…]
Perfect in every way. The match did not start until 1pm. Mrs H had the day off and had offered to take Dan and I to the football ground which was about an hour’s drive away in the hills north east of Tenno Station, south east of Hiroshima. In car [Read more…]
Parkside Hotel – scene of the last act of the Ash Wednesday Supper – glimmered and glowered at the Poor Little Still-Feeling-Rather-Delicate Cypriot as he disappeared into the Kodama mahjong parlour just across the road. With the Poor Little Cypriot officially off the sauce the only imbiber at the table tonight [Read more…]
There were only three players in the mahjong parlour Friday evening, Noda, David and Ray. Mama was complaining about the unpredictability of business these days. Mind you, all three of us ordered grub and Noda and David drank their way through the evening so she did ok out of us. [Read more…]
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