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not the coffee I made : London_21 west

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I woke up really early this morning (for me) – 6am. I had a bit of bad news yesterday about my Grandad – he’s poorly and is in hospital now and I couldn’t get to sleep until about 1am. The time difference makes it hard to keep in the loop so I’ll speak to my mum today about him and see what to do.

I’d made focaccia dough last night, so I sorted this out and then made coffee. Feeling unusually productive, I did my Duolingo for the day (Italian) ...

october means pumpkins in tokyo in autumn

Happy October everyone! I don’t think October means pumpkins for most of the residents of Tokyo, but maybe some lost souls out there.

We went to Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome, which we have been to before and you can find the post here. Looking back at that post, I’ve taken pretty much the exact same pictures, so maybe just read this one.

It wasn’t empty like last time and you had to reserve a time slot. The photographers were out in FULL force – we saw children being paraded around dressed as pumpkins, witches and Snow White. That’s ...

do you ever wonder…?

The photos of the snow are of no relevance to the text, so if it’s a snow story you’re after, turn back now.  I just felt I needed to try and make my words a little less soul destroying.

What you are doing with your life?  I’m sick of that question!  It seems to be everyones favourite thing to ask at the moment.  Everyone defines themselves by the job they do and I just find that so depressing.  More depressing than that though is that I do it as well!  I hate being asked what I do but I invariably ...