We played just two games of mahjong during August, on two consecutive evenings at Neil’s house in Miyazaki, Kyushu. The results were good for Jaime, okay for David, not so great for Neil or Ray. In spite of the fact that the 3PMG Cock’s-Eye Mahjong Club had never met so [Read more…]
Two weeks ago Kenyon returned to the table from his summer holidays. Tim was present for a beer and the talk inevitably turned towards Barack Obama’s acceptance speech. I shall spare the blogosphere yet another ramble on the intertwined subjects of BO’s prospects, policies, race and religion. Far more important [Read more…]
Things have been a bit hectic recently so the Cock’s Eye blog has been sadly neglected. We played four games since I last reported, and I also played a couple of games at Dr M’s… The key point that I can remember is that Noda’s advance was reversed by David [Read more…]
Ray came into town from the sticks tonight and joined us at the table of conviviality. The first two games were played by him, Noda and Jaime. David arrived towards the end of the first game and already the foreign players had a gloomy air about them. David ordered yakimeshi [Read more…]
This evening at Kodama went on for longer than anticipated and was full of incident and variety. The first thing that greeted us on entering the mahjong parlour was the site of Noda’s Mask. Noda had a cold and spent much of the evening coughing and spluttering like an old [Read more…]
Suffering from indigestion during a crucial portion of the afternoon of 18th June 1815, the Upstart Emperor of the French removed himself from the field of battle to seek relief by lying down in a barn. I don’t know if Jaime spent the evening lying down in a barn but [Read more…]
Having found the Mulligan such a convivial companion on the golf course, I begin to think that he ought to take up mahjong, or at least keep the players company. I believe he may actually have put in an appearance or two at tonight’s game. He certainly seems to have [Read more…]
On December 27th, the Feast of St John the Evangelist, I found myself back at the Doc’s for a festive afternoon of mahjong. The “revelation” I received was this – Doctor M junior was right! When we first began to play mahjong he prophesied that I might suffer at the [Read more…]
I was attending a birthday party tonight so did not play mahjong. Tonight’s “zero” score was a marked improvement on my recent form. I leave it to Jaime to file the report: “When I first started playing mahjong in 2000 I cobbled together a strategy of how to simplify the [Read more…]
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