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for 2011
We collected some favourite pictures, mostly from round our country house, over the past few years and got a calendar made. It turned out quite nice, so I thought I’d share them with you (click the...
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Farmlog March 6th ~ 21st 2011
“No time for trivia like this” you’re probably thinking and you’re right really, but these “farmlogs” are meant to be some kind of long-term record of what was happening in the countryside, as much for...
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Here it comes
Last Friday it was officially announced that Okinawa had “entered the Rainy Season”. They’re about a month ahead of us, so the monsoon which comes up from India via SE Asia will reach us in early June....
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Farmlog May 15th ~ 23rd 2011
Two in one to catch up a bit. 15th ~ 16th May After a wet week, it’s sunny and hot again, going on scorching in fact, though the breeze is still cool as we get out into the hills of Gifu. At last all...
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The Rainy Season
It was officially announced last week – Thursday or so – that the Rainy Season had begun in the Nagoya area. The end of May is very early, usually it’s the around second week of June, but that doesn’t...
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Farmlog May 29th ~ June 27th 2011
Aah… it’s been a long hot summer so far, and August has only just started. Meanwhile we’ve been going up to our country place most weekends coping with the damp, leeches and wild animals trying to eat...
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Farmlog July 3rd ~ 25th 2011
Summer in Gifu continues: 3rd ~ 4th July We’re late this week and arrive on a moist Sunday evening. It’s extremely humid and mouldy, even a thorough vacuuming of the tatami floor can’t get rid of the...
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Farmlog 7th ~ 29th August 2011
7th~8th A real Summer day for once: blue sky, summery clouds… and a blazing sun! It’s hot! The first supermarket car-park is scorching in the way only a supermarket car-park can be. The asphalt soaks...
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Setsubun
Osu’s one of my favourite places in Nagoya and I had to be in the area anyway, so went down to Osu Kannon for the bean-throwing. Nice sunny day (though freezing cold) and the place was looking...
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Farmlog March 2013
Ridiculous backlog here, and I definitely have to try harder to catch up with real time (ie Autumn!) 3rd~4th Anyway, the first week in March we had a Daihachi Ryodan concert at Tokuzo. A good time was...
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