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I rise with the dawn and wander into my devastated home. I hate cleaning up late at night, at the end of the party. https://quietripple.wordpress.com/2016/07/23/rebexit/   It turns wildness into domesticity, enjoyment into puritanism, release into control. So at 6:30 the next … Continue reading →

Rebecca has been with us for the last 6 months and has been the best fun. Now she leaves. We are so unhappy that we have a party. My neighbor comes in unusual garb. He is frankly er eccentric. Frankly, … Continue reading →

There will be a party to mark the leaving of Science Writing Fellow Rebecca.  Rebecca is a role model to us all. To make the party go with a swing I will BBQ two legs of lamb. My noble Cobb is … Continue reading →

Nothing much to say really but I feel I have to record the glory of the Okinawan Summer. Sunsets continue to be a competition each night. Big plans for major passage aborted due to high seas and cowardice. I have … Continue reading →

Best fun yesterday as we inaugurate our latest research facility. Let me introduce to you the  – OIST Marine Science Station.  So; big event, VIPs, speeches, television, cats doing funny stuff. However the defining memory was a performance of Tanchame … Continue reading →

It is Saturday so I go to the Fish Market at Toya. That is enough of that. The guys have come to slash the undergrowth that has been encroaching steadily around the house. Sometimes it is difficult to get out of the … Continue reading →

So, I go to Tokyo. I get into Haneda at midnight on Wednesday. I head straight to my beloved First Cabin Hotel. I have written about this place before. https://quietripple.wordpress.com/2014/10/04/one-of-those-days/ https://quietripple.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/first-class-cabin/ I get off the plane. 5 minutes later I … Continue reading →

It has long been an ambition to sail up to Seragaki harbor and there take amazing photos of rare terns, er Roseate and Black Naped. In previous years there has been a maelstrom of terns. Hundreds of pairs nesting on … Continue reading →

Tough times for English folk. Conveniently, I call myself Scottish. This has consistently been a help in my peripatetic career. People like the Scots but generally do not like the English. Why is this? Anyway, I have been neglecting Lady … Continue reading →

I go for a delightful evening sail. I gently beat out to the reef and then run down into Shioya harbor.  Things start getting out of control when I go aground just beside the two big rocks that jut out … Continue reading →