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Miyajima Water Fireworks Display 2012

August 15, 2012 David Hurley 0

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  

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Kanda Ballet Studio Recital

July 22, 2012 David Hurley 0

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…]

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2nd Wine Tasting Event at Southern Cross Bar

March 7, 2011 David Hurley 0

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…]

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Football: Our Last Game For DEH?

February 14, 2011 David Hurley 0

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…]

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Birthday Dinner

January 16, 2011 David Hurley 0

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…]

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Lecture: Aspects of E. M. Forster & His Novels

November 7, 2010 David Hurley 0

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.