Trying not to think about what our politicians are up to but wonder if any of them focus anymore on the real politics of everyday – schools, crimes, NHS… We should feel our country is in a ‘safe pair of hands’ but often feels the opposite – more like they make things up as they […]

Goliath

We decided to battle with a tree we loved dancing and blowing in the winds. Its three trunks had reached almost 15 metres but had been planted 5-6 metres from our home. A plant man identified it as the same family as Californian Redwood and looking at the foliage, probably a Japanese Red Cedar or […]

Ura-Bon Festival

In Japan held in the middle of the seventh month – a time to pray for the peaceful rest of ancestors and is a time when deceased family members are believed to revisit the home to be reunited with their family. Little similar to Loi Krathong in Thailand and All Souls in November To guide […]

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Saeko

‘That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history ‘ -Aldous Huxley

Goliath

Ura-Bon Festival