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So, today was the Maeganeku Harii Race at Maeganeku Fish Port – such fun but hot fun. Crews race up and down the harbor. People hang out drinking Orion beer, eating Ikkasumi, which is black squid soup. This soup stains … Continue reading →

The Hare bell chases away the rainy season you know. This is the time for the Hari Krishna boat races, https://quietripple.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/hare-krishna-hare-krishna-krishna-krishna-hare-hare-hare-rama-hare-rama-rama-rama-hare-hare/ I am too old, too fat, too infirm, too busy to compete. It irks me. However there is no doubt that … Continue reading →

In my youth I spent 2 years and some in Algeria. There, I ate Algerian food  because there was nothing else.  Also, there were no telephones, no internet, no nothing. So I lived like an Algerian, without the praying. Now … Continue reading →

Sunday morning is grey and generally uninspiring however I am determined to take the boat out. There is very little wind and I imagine a little cruise around the lagoon for an hour or so. It is of course very … Continue reading →

Not much to say really; a combination of work and rainy season has muted the adventure volume. However a great sense of tranquility has descended on the shore. The tide is, yo, Tancha crew, like, totally, far out. The Scaffie, … Continue reading →

So I get a wonderful letter  from the Onna Health and Welfare Division. It is offering a Discount Ticket. Yay! What for? Rolling Stones in Okinawa? Gordon Duncan Memorial Concert? I Musici play Steppenwolf? Hamlet with Keira Knightley as the … Continue reading →

So, I have been worrying about several things lately. First is that the Scaffie is not in the water. She is skulking in Dead Man’s Gulch, having been untimely ripped from her natural element due to unjustified dread of typhoons, whipped … Continue reading →

Big week, last week- opened an exhibition: http://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2015/5/18/unlocking-secrets-okinawan-pottery Talked gay stuff with Irish ambassador: Board of Governors, Board of Councillors, Particle Physics workshop: French ladies play harp and flute: Dinners every night from Sunday to Friday. Great plans to relaunch … Continue reading →

Opinels are the best knives. James gave me a great one at Xmas that I use a lot. It has a corkscrew built into it. Not in a clever technicological way as Swiss Army Knife but a design suited to  the montagnards … Continue reading →

So, tomorrow is my birthday and I glide gently toward the mid sixties. I have never felt better apart from my knee, which is crank. The kind people at work celebrate the event with a soup birthday party. The admirable Atsuko san’s … Continue reading →