“…thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous.” I received the news from Gregg today, the bad news we have been expecting and yet hoping not to hear. Eri, the ebullient “Mahjong Queen” of the “Cock’s-eye” club departed this life in the early hours of Sunday morning. Eri was one of the [Read more…]
Six blokes and two blokes-in-training turned up at the Panorama Beer Garden on the roof of the Fukuya department store opposite Hiroshima station. As beer garden parties go this one has to be the mellowest of them all – a sign of our age perhaps. Apart from Tim who drank [Read more…]
A festive spirit prevailed tonight. Neil, one of our former colleagues in the days when we were all “dokushin kizoku” (batchelor aristocrats) at a certain English language school of ill repute, was back in town for the holiday weekend, blown in from Kyuushu by the typhoon. We had agreed to [Read more…]
Having recently expanded the realms of his empire by ravaging the regions of Dacia well beyond the limits set by his previous advance up the Grand Accumulated 3-Player Mahjong Results Table early in the spring, Emperor Traianus Davidus set out in the footsteps of the ancient poet, Bassho, on a [Read more…]
In this evening’s first game Noda and David were completing hands at the expense of Jaime until Jaime finally completed a hand to get rid of his Yakitori tessera and become the last Oya. At that point fortunes reversed. Fortune now shone upon Jaime and presented him with a series [Read more…]
The first game had hardly got underway when the old yakimeshi set appeared in front of The Poor Little Cypriot who then got clobbered by Noda a couple of times at the table. Jaime received similar treatment at Noda’s hands but the result was not too serious as the English [Read more…]
When caught in a spot in the early game with Noda and Jaime, David declared that his aims were modest tonight and so he cheerfully broke up a developing hand when the going got tough and allowed the other two to battle it out between them. The result was neither [Read more…]
The good Doctor’s observation that the expansion of fortune in the three player version of mahjong will be checked by the decline of prowess in the traditional four player game (or vice-versa) continues to be born out by experience; the Poor Little Cypriot is currently at the top of his [Read more…]
Tonight saw the reenactment of two notable incidents from the annals of Britain’s glorious maritime history. The Royal Navy Frigate HMS Leeds, entered Hiroshima Bay, bombarded the harbour and destroyed the warehouses of local daimyo Itsuonuri Noda which were known to contain contraband such as unlicenced Overconfidence, bootlegged Lucky Strikes, [Read more…]
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