Entries from 2009-01-01 to 1 year
Have a Cool Yule! コマドリちゃんだ！ イギリスでは人家近くの林に生息し、警戒心が弱く人を恐れずに近付いてくるため、ヨーロッパコマドリは人々に愛されている。土を掘っている人間がいると、掘り起こされたミミズなどの餌を探すために好んで近付いてきた…
Happy birthday. We love you, not only on boxing day.
昔の写真が出って来ました〜！I like this one.
土曜日13日Saturday 日曜日14日Sunday 月曜日15日Monday 火曜日16日Tuesday 水曜日17日Wednesday 木曜日18日Thursday 金曜日19日Friday 頭の中で翌日のことを一通り確認します Boy, I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings... んん、でも神様の大掛かりな…
All very festive.
ⓒL-R: John Ashburne, エッジイ, Yoshikawa Yasuo, Makino Masahirohttp://www.kyoto-photography-club.jp/hayp/how/index.html Please drop by our photo exhibition if you've time and inclination. It starts tomorrow at Yamamoto Gallery, which is on…
ブラドレー・ウィギンズが来年結成されるイギリスの新チーム、チームスカイに入りました！これで2010年7月、ツール・ド・フランスでに英国団が初チャレンジ！Braddo joins Team Sky. The Brit assault on the Tour de France begins. More later, as I must …
The Common Kite? There's nothing 'common' about these birds, other than their numbers. I never tired of watching the Brahminy kites (Milvus Govinda) swooping across the temple reservoirs in Kerala, and I love watching them here in Japan.ト…
一緒ですって。They both have Mohican haircuts. 鳳冠鳥（ホウカンチョウ）です。中南米産の七面鳥に似た鳥だ。パンクスタイルの髪型がかこいですね〜。 The Black Curassow (Crax alector) is a species of bird in the Cracidae family, the chachalacas,…
Hey Dan, Topher, Aaron. I thought this might remind you guys of home... Probably looks like your former girlfriend. Come to think of it, she probably wasn't that comely. 私の三人友達もバージンニア州生まれです。懐かしいでしょうか？ This pic…
是非見に来て下さい。楽しいです！ Come check it out, it's a nice atmosphere, and Masuda-san is likely to be there too. And she's nice. Please pass the message on if you know anyone you think might be interested.
あああ、またそんな作り話がはじまります。これからイギリスの国民が悪夢に悩まされるだね〜 And so, the feverish, wildly over-expectant dreaming begins again. Has four years really passed so quickly? And do we really have to go through all that…
これは合成写真ではないです。ふみおはこの顔です。 This is not a trick photograph, and I did not manipulate the image. This is what Fumio looks like. Topherも。 Ditto with Topher. But maybe I should have photoshppped him a bit..? ビールおく…
私は「仲間由紀恵事件」との関与をきっぱりと否定します。 I strongly deny the report of my involvement in the Nakama Yukie Incident. I was, er, at home watching TV at the time. My cats are witnesses.
僕のヴィム・ヴェンダース時代でした。この若い女の人はアレハンドロ・ゴンサレス・イニャリトゥの『バベル』 の端役女優でした。January 2007, during my Bruno Ganz/Wim Wenders period. The friendly young lady on a day-trip from Osaka had just been …
群馬県のチンピラが好きそうな車ですね〜。私も好きです。何の意味だろうか？Not least this one, spotted in front of Kyoto City Hall last Sunday.ドイツ系のアメリカ人でしょうか？ Jeez, in an attempt to describe this vehicle I came up with a new …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTUIHK7gHRE Or, er, oh well... a geetar may suffice?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE4HGlmtOcgTalkin of horns:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJVGMNiwY9gAccidents never happen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3…
Just wondering if anyone ever reads this blog? Or is it going the way of our friend here? 誰かこのブログを読めますか？ドードー君のたどった道をたどるかな〜？"Naruhodo" said the Dodo When advised Of his Demise.
As Fairport Convention once sang. Akihiro and Sasha, once upon a time in Kyoto:And, Kev, on another distant shore:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2xODjbfYw8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpF0MoyS0c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUcJEgyz…
On Tuesday I saw this fantastic exhibition at the Kampo Museum in Okazaki. I highly recommend it. For those of you within shouting distance of my house, I have free tickets if you'd like some.It was one of those exhibits which is so good, …
Jens today was talking about the 'survival training' he will once again undertake with his Saxobank team-mates in preparation for the 2010 racing season.Quoth Jens, in his inimitable style: "Of course, I am looking forward to days without …
BTW, hi Aaron, I used the Hatena Screenshot tool to upload these pics. Very convenient, thanks.My students and I have been watching Roman Polanski's 'Macbeth' in preparation. I wonder what he is watching, in the confines of his Swiss gaol.…
Kotaro Iizawa is a famous photographic art critic, and full-time mushroom nerd. He will be giving a talk at Coccon Karasuma on Saturday at 7pm. There will be 'mushroom music', and catering by Juri Suzuka's 'Cafe Millet'. I shall be there. …
An avocet. They were extinct in Britain, until, during World War 2, the government turned the area adjacent to the Wash in East Anglia, into swampland (to deter a German invasion). The Bosch tanks never showed up, but the avocets did.If yo…
Taken circa 1937. Dad's the youth on the right at the front. Their defence was leakier than Bradford City's (they conceded 23 goals in ten games). Not dad's fault. He was a forward. 前の一番右の人です。お父さんかっこい！
She sent me this, twenty years ago. I stumbled across it while tidying up the other day. This, and her old cookbook, are the only pieces of her handwriting that I have.The landscape is up in North Yorkshire. Note that the train is pushing …
宇治市立西宇治体育館まで行ったぞ〜！「何もなし町」小倉で伝説のお相撲様の戦いを目撃しました。神と向き合うためにあの砂漠に入りました。 Sasha and I ventured to the wilds of Ogura, west of Uji, possibly the most dismal urban settlement known t…
It's a four-hour drive from Kyoto. All that way, just to eat soba? Not only the soba... Read on and drool.なすのわさび和え、そば茶 Eggplant pickled in wasabi, with Soba-cha tea. 野菜の煮物 Slowly-simmered vegetable 'nimono'. 山女（やまめ）…
バーン＝ジョーンズ氏の作品ですね。 サー・エドワード・コーリー・バーン＝ジョーンズ（Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1833年8月28日 - 1898年6月17日）は、イギリスの美術家。ラファエル前派と密接な関係を持つデザイナーで、ラファエル前派をイギリス画…
He used to be the sole member of the Yorkshire Mujahaddin. ヨークシャー・ムジャーヒディーンの設立者であるものです。This is his detached house just north of Bradford. ブラドフォード周辺の近い、彼の家です。
