A Few Shots of the New Place

Immediately post move, so it already looks a bit different, but just to keep you going....
This is just the upstairs that we had remodeled.　Will update when the curtains, dining room table and other accoutrements have arrived....Housewarming when ready!

Really "On the Pond"!

Found out an interesting bit of useless information yesterday.
We had the neighbourhood cleaning the other day. Only in Japan would they come up with the idea that fostering a sense of community is best achieved by making everyone get up at 6 o'clock on a Sunday morning and go and weed the park! I've escaped these events in previous houses, as we were only there temporarily, using the weird gaijin card, but as we are actually here for the long term this time, and I don't want some snotty little kid saying"your Mum never cleans the park!" to Weechan, I thought we had better get cleaning this time at least.
So off we went, and it is actually quite satisfying to be up and active at that time, taking part in the world, instead of languising in your pit. On the way back, I was talking to my nextdoor neighbour, Mrs Inner Village, who was telling me that our reinforced concrete garages, were built on land where there was originally a pond.
So we are, quite literally, on the pond!
Fate, or what?!

Pandas Pandas Everywhere パンダさんだらけ

Sorry to have been offline for so long, but the mountain of Pandas is neverending. I shouldn't really be blogging now, but I need some catharsis. So, the day of the move into our own house finally dawned a couple of weeks ago.

The efficient young guys from Sakai brought their nifty little truck down our narrow street and cleared the house of all our belongings quicksmart.

It was a stressful day for some... "Where DID all this crap come from???"

4 truckloads later, they could replace the windows, and we were off.
Never mind the boxes, first thing's first!

Thanks to our first guest, the first thing to come out of its box was the champagnes glasses!
Thanks John! You're welcome any time!