Four long and eventful years have passed since our friend Allan had his fatal motorbike accident. As the anniversary fell on a Friday the obvious thing to do was to meet in the ramen shop Bizenya for dinner and then head over to the mahjong parlour for the rest of [Read more…]
I met old Ardle for lunch on Monday. We went to one of the Italian joints on Namiki Dori where, in Ardle’s own words, he is “known”. Known for what may be another matter. He spent most of lunchtime chatting up the waitress who used to be one of his [Read more…]
I had a curry lunch with my old chum Flaminius Titus Ardlus Waddicus who had a Unique Glow about him. Ardle, as he is known to his friends, breezed into the restaurant plugged into his iPod and dressed in a brown Uniclo jacket, beige Uniclo hooded top, beige Uniclo baseball [Read more…]
Well, OK, it is still only January and only three games have been played… But the beginning of the year seems like a good time to introduce a chart to keep track of the results so that we can all see how we are doing as the year progresses. Name [Read more…]
Due to the exigencies of this toilsome life and its importunate and burdensome responsibilities the first three 3-Player Mahjong games of the year have gone, until now, unreported, which is a thing of no moment in and of itself, but which nevertheless does no honour to a weblog such as [Read more…]
Towards the end of last year a couple of my longstanding “History in English” students had a bit of a post-class spat over the payment of the community centre room fee. The upshot was that the two ladies were “no longer able to continue to attend” the class, which left [Read more…]
A slow start to the 3rd&40th birthday suited me just fine. I had a bit of a lie in after having spent the previous evening celebrating with the wife and daughter at what I regard as the best little restaurant in Hiroshima, namely, Toriwaka’s. The Menu Beer Toriwaka “Fish and [Read more…]
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