When I spoke to my mum today, she was telling me 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’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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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 ...

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.

Back again! (22.10.26)

Look how magnificent Tokyo Tower is! The Mont Blanc was nice but it did really remind me of the Doutor one. It was ¥5,000-ish for two cakes, one cappuccino, ...

Why do people in the US all seem to have those lawn chairs? (Is that what they are called? I don’t know what they are called in British English. Foldable chair?) Not only do they all seem to have them, they all seem to carry them about with them. I’ve never come across anything like it. People had them in the queue for the shows. When I went on a trip to various beaches in California, this guy was lugging one about with him. Also, when I was looking at theatre stuff, a lot of the outdoors ones said to ...