With just three players tonight, Noda, David and Kenyon, it was strictly business as usual (for the last three months) on the score sheet. In short, Noda and Kenyon finished in the black. (Actually, Noda and Kenyon were never in the red.) David sank. Of six games: Kenyon came top [Read more…]
At the Doc’s today we compared the merits of the French and German models of the Enlightenment, or perhaps I should say, we read part of a chapter of Steven Ozment’s A Mighty Fortress which showed us how the German model of enlightened despotism was superior to the French model [Read more…]
Jaime invited several of his mates up to his pad in Mitaki to watch England play Portugal in the quarter finals of the World Cup, and to play a bit of mahjong. Prior to that we met at the izakaya on the second floor of the building attached to the [Read more…]
There were just three of us at our table tonight – the Old Guard of Noda, David and Jaime. The table, however, could not take the strain. After one hand had been played the shuffling and sorting mechanism inside the electronic table broke down and as all but one of [Read more…]
When you find yourself in a losing streak, such as my losing streak this quarter, you search around for excuses… Unfortunately, as this latest mahjong session amply demonstrated, all excuses are invalidated by Noda. Excuse no 1: I got drunk. The Noda Disqualification: Noda regularly wins while drunk… Excuse no [Read more…]
After a couple of weeks in which no mahjong was played at all, the four regular players met up at Kodama on Friday night to resume battle. Noda, who has shed a few points in recent encounters, racked up an early lead finishing the only winner on +46. Jaime took [Read more…]
The stresses and strains of the last month finally caught up with The Poor Little Cypriot. The last straw was probably the inclement weather. It is usually warm in Hiroshima in late May but Thursday and Friday evenings were chilly and Friday was wet. Anyway, the PLC arrived at Kodama [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…]
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