16.10.26

When I spoke to my mum today, she was telling how one of her groups is going to do a raffle and they were saying things that they could bring. Mum said she’d bring a box of biscuits and C made a note of it. Then J says, I’ll bring biscuits and C says (my) Mum already said that. J answers with, I’m going to bring luxury biscuits though. Mum said to me, what did she think I was going to bring? A packet of Morrisons custard creams? Her indignation really tickled me.

*Custard creams are my favourite so I ...

10.10.26

I’ve had to buy sock glue.

05.08.26
Muji! 🧦

09.06.26
Do socks that don’t fall down exist? I’ve certainly never found any. It doesn’t matter which brand I buy, how much I spend, which size I get, none of them stay up! I must have weird legs or something because no one else seems to have this issue. It’s the bane of my life!

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08.10.26

I want new pillows and like everything nowadays, the choice is overwhelming. I don’t know the specifics of the pillow I want, I’ve never thought about it that much before, I just know I need one. I’ve been looking online but it can turn into hours just researching pillows. Maybe if I do it in Japanese it can count as Japanese practice? Then again, I’m not sure my teacher would be too interested in having an hour and a half conversation about that but she’d have to just get on with it if she’s going to outsource the topic to ...

Various Tokyo 2026

Bits of life.

Azabudai Hills – I don’t really care for places like this and the coffee was rubbish and I certainly wouldn’t have been paying ¥500 cover charge to go up there BUT I do love Tokyo Tower! Those two drinks were nearly ¥2,000 which is outrageous and in disposable cups.

Ryuichi Sakamoto at Azabudai Hills…it wasn’t anywhere near as good as the one at MOT.

The Museum of Contemporary Art is my favourite museum in Tokyo and probably one of my favourite places to go. The cafe is good too.


The National Art Center, Tokyo also have ...

=w= 2026 – USA

Whilst my mum was in Japan she encouraged me to get tickets for some of the US shows (it didn’t take much). The flight to the West Coast isn’t bad so that’s where I went – Sacramento, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. I’d never been to any of them before.

Sacramento

Not to bore people but as I previously mentioned, my straighteners and my backup pair had both broken before I left so I had to order new ones to my hotel and they were at the waiting for me when I arrived. This is the fourth pair I own ...