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  • Day Trip

    Today we went on a family day trip to Atami, a coastal hot spring resort town a couple of hours away by train. This means that I’m even further behind on the diary than I was yesterday, because this is a diary entry sort of thing, with pictures. I’m going to have to deliberately set…

  • Five Years in Japan

    Today marks the fifth anniversary of my arrival in Japan, as well as Yuriko and my second wedding anniversary. When I arrived here, I thought that I would be studying for a year and then returning to the UK. I certainly didn’t imagine that five years later I’d own a flat in the Tokyo area,…

  • First Steps

    Mayuki took her first steps today. I actually missed the very first two, because I was asleep (I’ve been very tired for some reason, can’t imagine why a freelance writer with a one-year-old might be tired), but I did see her second lot, as she walked one step from holding on to the back of…

My Old Pages

These are links to my old webpages, from back before I moved to a wordpress-powered blog. Back when I wrote the HTML by hand in a text editor. Yes, really. The formatting on some of the pages has broken a bit, and there are newer versions of some of the content in the current part of the site. Nothing here is maintained, nor likely to have anything done with it in the future.