Me, in hat By Ritsuko. Another birthday come and gone. As we do every year, we use our birthdays to try a restaurant we wouldn't normall...

As I've said, there's a general election coming up in Sweden in September. I've been trying to write about this for a long time ...

So, we have some elections coming up. Now and again I feel the urge to write about them, but then I take a quick look at my work schedule fo...

You may have heard that Ozzy Osbourne is getting his genome sequenced ; basically, they want to know how he's managed to stay alive des...

Just a short post: Ikoma city (where I work) has issued warnings about " photochemical smog " for the second time in a week. We sh...

Tsuyu, the rainy season, is declared for the Kansai area. It's about one week late - spring and summer has all been later than usual thi...

Last June, we tried making brandy-based umeshu . This weekend, almost exactly one year later, we tried it for the first time. Delicious. Smo...