At midday I set off with the Mrs to accomplish one of our goals for the Golden Week period – walk to the Botanical Garden which I had never visited heretofore even though it’s in our neck of the woods. The Hiroshima Botanical Garden is located up a hill in [Read more…]
This weekend marks the tenth anniversary of the death of my mad, bad, good friend Allan Jenkins in Hiroshima in the early hours of Monday 4th February, 2002.
Ten years.
There is always a double perspective to past times; because the mind’s eye can recall so many incidents, it seems but yesterday when this or that occurred and yet when all that has happened since that day is called to mind, and all that has changed, it seems as if those previous events belong to a distant epoch and another country.
Our local shrine, Shioya Jinja, in the western outskirts of Hiroshima, held its annual summer festival last Saturday. Summer shrine festivals here in Hiroshima usually include a performance of kagura as the main event. Kagura is a form of sacred Shinto dance in celebration of the seasons and folklore of [Read more…]
Title: Football: The City League, “B” Division, Hiroshima Location: Inokuchi JHS Description: This could be the last game for the David English House team since the school shut down a few months ago. Start Time: 17:30 Date: 2011-02-13 End Time: 19:30 Result: We lose 7-1 With an age range spanning [Read more…]
As a young man in wartime Japan Mr K was considered unfit for military service because of his weak lungs. But by 1945 the need for new recruits had grown so desperate that even Mr K, weak lungs and all, was considered fit enough for military service.
He was told that he would be drafted into the military on 15th August 1945. In the meantime he was working for the Hiroshima City government demolishing houses in the centre of Hiroshima. Why were houses being demolished?
I had expected to squeeze in a little bit of mahjong in April, but it is not to be, neither in April nor during Golden Week as the Great Spotted Hostage-To-Fortune is off on a study weekend and the Poor Little Cypriot is to be left to hold the jolly [Read more…]
It is Monday morning, and I think I have recovered. Thursday, Friday and Saturday were spent celebrating Jaime’s wedding. Activities included golf, bowling, mahjong, cigars, booze, the wedding ceremony itself and the reception at the Rihga-Royal Hotel, and parties at three bars: Kembys, Kulcha and Plasir, as well as regular [Read more…]
I have learnt to love the Mulligan rule in golf. It has enabled me to claim that my golf is getting better. By batting from the yellow tee with a liberal application of “the Mulligan”, I have been able to whittle my score down to a personal best of 138 [Read more…]
Three of us met at around 5pm in one of the best okonomiyaki shops in Yokogawa, a place called “Hyotan” in the CAZL shopping mall that leads from Yokogawa station to the Fresta supermarket. I believe I have said it before, but I shall not disdain to say it again [Read more…]
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