I happened to mention to Mrs Wada that I was off to England in February and would be staying at Barnham Broom Golf and Country Club. Now, I never said anything about playing any golf, I merely said that I would be staying there. But Mrs Wada, who happens to [Read more…]
Mr Noda has blown it! Last January he was presented with the Cockseye Three-Player Mahjong Trophy, an earthenware statue of a bull, which was his to keep for the year (view the report, here). At the end of the year he was supposed to hand it back in to the [Read more…]
New Year’s Day is not the day to visit Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima Island, if you want to avoid the crowds. It used to be a good day to visit if you wanted to see lots of Japanese ladies kitted out in kimonos, but there was hardly a kimono in [Read more…]
A pile of boxes covered the floor of the tatami anteroom of the residence of the senior docs. It transpired that the senior doc and the lady wife had been clearing out some cupboards in anticipation of the celebrated ritual of Japanese New Year house-cleaning. They had dug out a [Read more…]
In what turned out to be the last game of the year for the Hiroshima Cock’s-Eye Mahjong Club, Noda, the champion, gave a little back to the market. But even with David making the early running and getting up to +80 at the peak of it, there was no real [Read more…]
It was quite a shock to walk into Kodama tonight. A new light grey carpet covered the floor and the walls gleamed as if they had been washed in the autumn rain, whitened by the summer sun and we wondered, …what whiteness will ever arrive at this whiteness? Noda, David [Read more…]
Above: Disappointment as Jaime’s penalty is saved… Here’s a pic of Jaime taking the first of our three penalties during a fine game played in lovely autumnal weather on the grass pitch in the park near Hiroshima airport. As you can see, the shot was on target, but the other [Read more…]
It was the Labour Day holiday here in Japan today, so I didn’t have to haul myself out of bed at 6:15am and go on the “Busy Friday” run to the women’s college where I attend classes during term time. I say “attend” because I would blush to say that [Read more…]
Tonight was the evening before the Japanese Labour Day holiday and since nobody was working the next day we played mahjong from 7pm until almost 2am, the longest session ever at that venue. The first game started off with some lively variety. The junior Doc threatened to produce an expensive [Read more…]
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