Monthly Archives: April 2011

Just a quick one on Okinawan waste management.  The Japanese are admirably disciplined about their trash. The trash world here is divided into two kingdoms, you know a bit like Gaul but one less. One world is burnable, the other … Continue reading →

So today I finally do it. I have been planning to do it more or less all my adult life but the mystical planets that create opportunity in life were never aligned until I came to Okinawa. Here these planets … Continue reading →

Pottery or ceramics are big around here. With the amazing good luck that seems to characterize the period I strut and fret my life out on the stage, I have got to know Yamada san. He is probably the doyen … Continue reading →

“Dive, which was originally a weak verb, developed a past tense dove, probably by analogy with verbs like drive, drove. Dove exists in some British dialects and has become the standard past tense especially in speech in some parts of … Continue reading →