Monthly Archives: October 2018

The boat came with all her running rigging, right quality, right lengths, right eye splices  but the rope was black with mildew and generally tawdry.  Only the best for the Norfolk Gypsy!  So I decide to replace the old rope … Continue reading →

I go for a glorious morning walk along a beach close to the apartment.  The beach is strewn with big shards of pottery. Okinawa is covered in family tombs where ancestors’ bones are placed.  Early tombs were in caves and … Continue reading →

Almost exactly 20 years ago, I went to the Campbeltown Folk Festival. The lead bands were Shooglenifty and Flook. I had the opportunity to talk a lot to Brian Finnegan, one of Flook’s flute folk. During the concert he had … Continue reading →

I am feeling very proud of myself as I succeeded in getting stuff from Japanese Amazon. This what I got. I am nearing completion on my new crown. Today was fitting. It took 90 mins of exquisite adjustment to get … Continue reading →

The last 10 days or so have been dominated by typhoon stuff. The first, Trami, was  a mega, ultra typhoon. The second, whose name I have already forgotten, was less kapow but it did rain like crazy.   I set … Continue reading →

I was hopelessly unprepared for the reality of no power. I had no water, little food, no lamp nor candles. Of course all the shops were shut as they were in the same boat with no power. I lived a … Continue reading →

The importance of last Saturday’s election for the Governor of Okinawa was underlined by God sending a mega typhoon. https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Denny-Tamaki-critic-of-U.S.-bases-elected-Okinawa-governor Typhoon Trami went right over us on Saturday, which was polling day. It was the real thing! Go out and vote! … Continue reading →