Dear Santa

or Fi, or Yasu, whoever is looking

I have of course been a good girl.

Most of the time.

Nigella lawson’s measuring spoons

http://www.johnlewis.com/230223352/Product.aspx

serving hands

http://www.johnlewis.com/230335005/Product.aspx

8 of these

http://www.johnlewis.com/230797941/Product.aspx

http://www.amazon.co.uk/THERMOTHERAPY-Cherry-Warming-Cooling-Pillow/dp/B0027MDO8Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=drugstore&qid=1259327542&sr=8-1

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http://www.astonmartin.com/thecars/db9

The convertible please

http://www.amazon.co.jp/Vitantonio-ビタントニオ-VSW-400-ワッフル-ホットサンドベーカー/dp/B0002ZL9LW/ref=s

http://www.amazon.co.jp/Vitantonio-%E3%83%93%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%8B%E3%82%AA-PVWH-4000-PN-%E3%83%91%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88-2%E6%9E%9A%E7%B5%84/dp/B002M77MQO/ref=pd_bxgy_k_img_b

good cook books

wine

an umbrella stand

tights (mainly black)

a pressure cooker

The Wedding

My brother-in-law got married on October 24th, which is surprising only in that I have thought for 6 months that he was getting married on October 25th, and only found out just in time to change all the hairdressing appointments!
It was very bizarrely Japanese, but in a lovely place, with really lovely food.

Good luck for the future, Uncle Y and new Auntie M!


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Sports Day 09

And this was the scene at Sports Day this year. Mairi was a bit disappointed that there were no actual races this year. She was looking forward to winning her race for the 3rd year running - no pun intended.


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Ballet Sneak Preview

We had the posed photos for the programme taken the other week. Here are a few scary make-up shots of the prima herself.


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Catch Up Halloween 09

Just call me Jackie-o-Lantern....


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Scotland Summer -09

And here are the few shots from Scotland which I managed to take after Yasu brought my other camera. Still can't believe my record of my entire summer was fried after the great camera washing incident... Once again:oh well....


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Catch Up Time - Yufuin in July 09

Once again, long time no blog. Have totally become a slave to Facebook, against my will, which, along with a festering yet unproductive foray into Twitter has taken its toll on my blogging.
I have also been so busy this Autumn with various Halloween and PTA related things (who goes straight into being PTA president without really knowing what's going on at the school?? But once again I digress), that I have regularly forgotten to take my camera out of the house at all, never mind to the importtant milestones of M's life that I am supposed to be recording. Oh well...

Catch up time again.

Here are some shots in a Flickr slideshow from Yufuin with Ba-chan this summer, before we went to Scotland:


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Bye bye Dr Ed!

Said goodbye to another friend today. Hazards of the job of being a long term gaijin. They all leave eventually. Boohoo.
Anyway, Shez, here's the proof that I put him on the plane and made him leave the country.

After check-in there was a bit of an absence. Apparently there was no English on the instructions in the gents. I suspect it might have had more to do with the 8 pints of Guinness the night before at Molly's, but then I'm never right....

We waved good bye from the newly revamped observation deck.

Proof that the last grain of rice has really left the country.

We miss you all.

Come back soon.

Dr Fish

Dr Y and Weechan tried this last week.

These fish apparently like nothing more than to feast on the dead skin on your feet. Your feet come out after 15 minutes feeling refreshed and clean.
Apparently.
Just the thought of it was too much for me.
Yuck.

Scary US Democracy

Long time no blog, y'all.
There are many excuses: summer away, jetlag, general hectic bedlam after going back to work, school, and the whole PTA thing, to name but a few, but the main two are that I poured a bottle of mineral water all over my new camera, thus destroying all my photographic evidence of my summer in the UK (AND I couldn't blame anyone else to make myself feel better), and that we have hardly done anything worth commenting on since we came back, because every free weekend is taken up with ballet rehearsals. The joys of being a primary school parent!

Anyway, to be going on with, here are a few priceless shots which show why it is questionable that the choice of the leader of the free world rests in the hands of so-called "normal" US citizens. Now "some of my best friends " are American, but I did love these.

My personal fave. I bet Obama has this framed on his wall!

Got these from my friend. Have no knowledge of the original source, sorry.