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 Dinner Location: 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 First course: crab. Second course: fish. Eileen and Taiki get on well. Hiroko Hiroko Tokiwaka We were the only [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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