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There are millions of blogs out there on the Wonderful World Wide Web; every day a few thousand of them presumably just quietly fade away so you couldn’t be blamed for thinking the same thing had...
View ArticleSeason of the Itch
“There’s a mosquito in the room” says T, throwing me an accusing look. (If she gets bitten it’s generally my fault in some way.) It’s true that the humid Japanese Spring and Summer seems ideal for...
View ArticleWhere’s our Summer?
Hey, come on, the Rainy Season should have ended around the 20th, and by rights we’d now be basking in day after day of blistering sunshine, with temperatures peaking in the high 30′s (°C). Hmm… well...
View ArticleKyoto
Last week there was no farm report because the band went to Kyoto for a gig. We left early but didn’t hit the traffic jams expected on a 1000yen highway Sunday and arrived with several hours in hand,...
View ArticleA new box
There was no farmlog for the 16th of November because we had to stay in Nagoya. I took the chance to have a look round Osu, which is our local version of Akihabara, the famous computer and anime...
View ArticleCrows nests
It’s nesting time for crows again, and the power-cut warnings have gone out. This time of year they’re caused by urban crows building their nests on top of electricity poles, using metal coat-hangers...
View ArticleFarmlog 26th September 2010 and 3rd October 2010
Two posts together to try and catch up. 26th September The 3m high net that’s kept attackers off our chilli plants so far this year was down in a couple of places. This wasn’t wind and rain – some...
View ArticleBreak
I’ll be deserting my post for a bit. Hope to get some more rivetting stuff here at the end of April sometime. See you…
View ArticleTranscript of Interview With Ichiro Ozawa – WSJ.com
OK I’ve had a pretty dim view of Ozawa, regarding him as a power-hungry old-school politician who only left the LDP to further his own career and doesn’t care if he destroys the current DPJ government....
View ArticleFarmlog May 2013
3rd~6th A four-day break as it’s Golden Week. Fantastic weather! Cold wind! There’s a winter-grade cold air mass passing over or something. Outside town, more rice fields are being planted. The uguisu...
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