There were just three of us at our table tonight – the Old Guard of Noda, David and Jaime. The table, however, could not take the strain. After one hand had been played the shuffling and sorting mechanism inside the electronic table broke down and as all but one of [Read more…]
When you find yourself in a losing streak, such as my losing streak this quarter, you search around for excuses… Unfortunately, as this latest mahjong session amply demonstrated, all excuses are invalidated by Noda. Excuse no 1: I got drunk. The Noda Disqualification: Noda regularly wins while drunk… Excuse no [Read more…]
After a couple of weeks in which no mahjong was played at all, the four regular players met up at Kodama on Friday night to resume battle. Noda, who has shed a few points in recent encounters, racked up an early lead finishing the only winner on +46. Jaime took [Read more…]
The stresses and strains of the last month finally caught up with The Poor Little Cypriot. The last straw was probably the inclement weather. It is usually warm in Hiroshima in late May but Thursday and Friday evenings were chilly and Friday was wet. Anyway, the PLC arrived at Kodama [Read more…]
This year’s production of The Taming of the Shrew by the International Theatre Company London was a great success here at Jogakuin University, Hiroshima. Every May the International Theatre Company tours Japan performing a Shakespeare play and of the three I have seen (Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, The Taming [Read more…]
Jaime and I got off the train at Kaita-Ichi and headed for the taxi rank. The driver had to be prized out of another taxi where he and his fellows were hanging out together. The next difficulty was in getting the driver to understand where we were going – i.e. [Read more…]
After tangling with the complexities of the endgame of the Thirty Years War with Dr Mogami across the mahjong table in one of his father’s upper rooms we cleared away books and maps and whiteboards and markers and pulled the cover off the mahjong table. The senior Mogamis came in [Read more…]
While I was away Noda, Jaime and Kenyon played a game of mahjong which Jaime described over on this page of his blog. Those three met up again on 12th May and David joined them in time for the second game. There were once again two Chombos committed during the [Read more…]
Here is a photo of my late father, Patrick John Hurley (1934-2006), when he was fourteen. It was taken in 1948, in the back garden of his grandparents’ house in Leytonstone, London. He has recently become an uncle and his holding his nephew, Peter. Dad was born in May 1934 [Read more…]
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