It was old T. S. Eliot who opined that April was the cruellest month. Something to do with innocent lilacs and the burial of the dead… … which reminds me, last Friday Nobu-san appeared on the scene, lilac like, like a harbinger of spring and joined Noda and I for [Read more…]
As my afternoon and evening classes had been cancelled I was able to pop back to the homestead where I thought I might indulge in a quiet afternoon nap and woke up about four hours later. Thus refreshed I hopped onto the tram into town and hopped off at Kamiyacho [Read more…]
This has been the quietest start to the Cock’s Eye year ever. The first quarter is done and dusted but we have had just three, or some would say, four evenings, about which, more will be said in a moment. First, here’s the belated report on the game that was [Read more…]
Here are the results for the last game of 2008…Friday 12th December Noda had won the competition so long ago that it is really not worth commenting upon. There were a couple of questions to be resolved further down the table, chiefly among the foreign players…Would Jaime’s remarkable run of [Read more…]
I arrived a little bit earlier than usual at the Docs’ last night so Dr. M. Sr. and I entertained ourselves with some cheerful chat about warfare, particularly a somewhat doctored version, if I may put it like that, of what my late pater had been up to during the [Read more…]
It was an “Old Foreigners” game last Friday. Two of them, David and Jaime, had bought cuban cigars at Kemby’s, or rather at the bar on the second floor of Kemby’s. We were rather hoping to smoke out the Japanese players on the other tables, but when we got to [Read more…]
I don’t know about Noda going senile… I completely forgot to mention the presence of Nobu in my previous blog; but there he most definitely was. He even drove me home afterwards! Nobu is a pretty quiet sort of chap at the mahjong table. He has a disconcerting habit of [Read more…]
Last Friday the Old Guard (Noda, David) and one detachment of the Middle Guard (Jaime) formed up around the corner table of Kodama jansou. David arrived from a TOEFL class which he terminated early as there was only one student and she raced through the alloted tasks in double-quick time. [Read more…]
Friday 7th November was one of those evenings at the games table when the tiles always looked promising to the Poor Little Cypriot and were almost always treacherous. There was the case of being Tempai after four turns, but on such a dreadful wait that it was pointless to go [Read more…]
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