Things have moved on apace since I last updated this blog and I have entered the Week 2 Afternoon Open Championship, for which no official chess rating is necessary, although Stewart Reuben, the organizer, kindly offered to play a few games when I arrive in Torquay to assess my level [Read more…]
Title: Miyajima Water Fireworks Display 2012 Location: Miyajima Link out: Click here Description: This was our first trip to see the annual fireworks display on Miyajima. In previous years we have watched the fireworks from the sea wall at Rakurakuen. Start Time: 19:50 Date: 2012-08-11 End Time: 20:50
Title: Kanda Ballet Studio Recital Location: Aster Plaza Grand Hall, Hiroshima Description: The biennial ballet recital of the Kanda Ballet studio. Start Time: 12:30 Date: 2012-07-22 Here are some photos of my daughter, Eileen, in yesterday’s dress rehearsal for today’s ballet recital. I borrowed a Nikon D7000 from Andy Lightfoot [Read more…]
Title: Much Ado About Nothing Location: Hiroshima Jogakuin University Description: The International Theatre Group London returns to Japan to perform Shakespeare’s comedy, Much Ado About Nothing. Date: 2011-05-26 I just heard today that the International Theatre Group London is bringing a production Much Ado About Nothing to Japan this month, [Read more…]
Title: Wine Tasting Location: Southern Cross Bar Date: 2011-03-21 Description: The second wine tasting party to be held at Southern Cross this month. This time with a range of cheeses selected by Yours Truly. The event was hosted by Anker at Southern Cross on the Spring Equinox national holiday from [Read more…]
Title: Football: The City League, “B” Division, Hiroshima Location: Inokuchi JHS Description: This could be the last game for the David English House team since the school shut down a few months ago. Start Time: 17:30 Date: 2011-02-13 End Time: 19:30 Result: We lose 7-1 With an age range spanning [Read more…]
Title: Birthday DinnerLocation: とり若Date: 2011-01-15 Here are a few photos of my birthday dinner. Just Hiroko, Eileen and myself, entertained by Toriwaka and his wife and son, Taiki. Photos We were the only customers for most of the time. A couple of doctors came in and sat at the counter [Read more…]
Good afternoon everybody. I am very pleased to have been invited by Sekai O Miru Kai to talk to you about the twentieth century British novelist E. M. Forster. I want to emphasize straightaway that I am not at all an “E. M. Forster expert” but just somebody who enjoys reading his novels and essays, which I first came across when I was 16 or 17 and studying “A level” English Literature at a college in Tonbridge, the same town in Kent where E. M. Forster was sent to a small boarding school consisting of just 30 boys. But, sensitive and homesick, Forster didn’t really fit in and had a miserable time being bullied and humiliated by the other boys.
Title: Love Golf Location: Aita, Hiroshima Description: David, Jaime, Simon, Rikki meet in town to catch the Asu Tram to Kamiyasu to play golf at Love Golf… Start Time: 10:30 Date: 2010-10-30 === REPORT I made a return trip to Love Golf yesterday for the first time since the mid [Read more…]
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