Author Archives: spikekalashnikov

You may remember my joy when Cobb swam into view. https://quietripple.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/cobb/ Well, moth and rust doth corrupt and after 2 years of Okinawan heat, salt, exposure and constant use, I need another. They are unbuyable in Japan. I am very excited … Continue reading →

Time of arrival in a new city is important. Normally you cannot check into a hotel until 2:00 so if you arrive at 5:00 am, as I did in Perth, you have to find somewhere to lie down for nine … Continue reading →

So today we celebrated our 3rd birthday as a real Graduate University. A lot has been achieved and rightly we celebrate with food and acts. 600 people came to have fun. It poured all morning but just as we were … Continue reading →

So Jeremy has been here for the last 2 weeks and it has been great. He has been the key influence in the resurrection of Dileas. He moved tons of sand and provided huge doses of muscle. Anyway his flight … Continue reading →

On Jeremy’s last day we make a final assault on Dileas. Many thanks to Sakurai san who explained my predicament to some of the movers who um move stuff around the university. They volunteer to move the boat. Yoko comes … Continue reading →

So Ian and Ann come visit.  Much delighted though I be by the visit of my brother and his wife, when I see them – I see only muscle.  I can press gang them into working on the rescue of … Continue reading →

Dileas, pronounced Djeelas by the way, is in agony. She lies, deeply wounded , wedged in a secret passage. I initially thought that a few of us could probably work her free and so we set about it on my … Continue reading →

Oh no! Sitting in the lounge in Charles de Gaulle  on my way home, I get this. “The peak of the typhoon last night (it went straight over us) coincided with a high tide. There is sand over several low-lying … Continue reading →

I want to live in Sandy and Zandra’s chateau for ever. I could hide Steerpikely in one of the top bedrooms and no-one would ever know I was there. I would sneak out early in the morning and snuffle around … Continue reading →