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…]
David Peace recreates Brian Clough’s disastrous forty-four day management of Leeds United. Interwoven with the main plot is the story of Clough’s successes, assisted by Peter Taylor, as manager of Hartlepools and Derby County. Derby and Leeds were major rivals in the mid-seventies; their managers, Clough and Revie, bitter adversaries, [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…]
Having gone without lunch, David was perfectly happy to receive a message from Kenyon that he was stuck on a bus in a traffic jam caused by the Toukasan festival as that gave him time to chomp his way through Kodama Mama-san’s ample serving of yakimeshi without having to concentrate [Read more…]
The three Old Timers returned to Kodama for tonight’s game. It was essentially a battle between David and Noda for the spoils of victory and in the third game it looked as if Noda was down and out, finishing with an empty tray and owing David 20,000 points. Perhaps it [Read more…]
It is that time of year again when the International Theatre Company London tours Japan and we in Hiroshima get a welcome opportunity to see a Shakespeare performance free of charge, courtesy of Jogakuin University. In the expectation that quite a few would attend the performance, I spent the past [Read more…]
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