Tag: living

A treat after japanese immigration

My husband took a day off to do some life admin. We thought, why not combine that with my admin – going to immigration to apply for ‘application for permission to engage in an activity other than those permitted by the status of residence previously granted’ or 「格外資格外活動許可申請書」?

‘It won’t take long. Just nip in and out, then free for the rest of the day.’ Oh, how we laughed! We were there for 4 and a half hours! And my folder was taken! It was a nice green, Sumikko Gurashi one with sections. They said it’ll take between one and ...

books galore in written form

I have so many books. Mainly on Kindle but some in book form too, as you can see from the photo. I like reading on Kindle because I can’t tell easily if it’s a big book, which can put me off sometimes thinking it’s going to take me ages to slog through.

This year however is going to be the year of reading my physical copies of books and getting rid once done – I either pass them on to my mum if I think she’ll enjoy them, if not to BookOff or the charity shop, depending on my location ...

jan + feb memories and march wish list 2023

Another 2 months, nothing productive done as usual. I start the same way every year – full of great ambitions and hopes for the year ahead and then waste my time like I have an infinite amount of it. Is that just me?

jan + feb memories

I went to see Scott Murphy + special guest who turned out to be Rivers Cuomo. This didn’t happen in either Jan or Feb, but I’ve not written about it and I wanted to. It was Nov last year. Actually, it was on the day I was due to fly to Manchester but ...

we have too much food: the hoard

I’ve come back to Tokyo after two months in Manchester to too much food. We already had too much food when I left, but now we have even more.

a cupboard stuffed with food

One of my aims for this year is to eat down our food supplies (read hoard). In modern life many of us have everything we need and much more. Many of us live in a world of abundance. Yet at the same time, there are many in our societies who have too little and need more.

a cupboard stuffed with food

We rarely waste food. I was brought up by my mum who was very good ...