A cloudy, cold day. I saw our garden cats were curling into balls in the midst of the garden.


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Again a fine day. But in our garden there remains some snow in the shade. So I made this guy :)


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On new years day, my nephew visited us with his girlfriend. We also talked with my two nieces, now living in USA, via internet. Though they are young, to me it seemed that each of them were independent and dependable enough, looked like thinking their life earnestly. It’s impressive that my nephew and nieces had grown up so. Also I noticed how I ( Read more... )

I have been a member of Robert Louis Stevenson Club of Edinburgh for about 20 years. This a kind of fan club of the great Scottish author was founded in 1920 by the friends of Stevenson, we celebrated the centenary of the club last year though every commemorative event had to be postponed because of the Covid19 pandemic. One of the things the club ( Read more... )

They found the new “omicron” Covid variant patient today. He was a passenger from Africa, arrived at Tokyo yesterday. Now we are afraid how fast it would spread? I hope the vaccine would be useful against it…

Sunday. Sunny. The sky is blue with no cloud. Just beautiful. I look up, find a tiny pale moon in the midst of deep blue.


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It has been raining almost all day today, and cool. I did my job at home. Mother was going out for hours so it’s quiet in the house, just I and Krurun. Our two garden cats were curling into ball together at the end of our wooden verandah all day.


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Mr.K is a professional cameraman and a president of a small design company, I had done the various task with him many times. He is about 10 or 15 years older than me and we may not call each other a "friend" but we have had a good relationship for years. Now I have no opportunity to work with him but about once or twice a year we enjoy eating out ( Read more... )

Since last year I have rather tried not to see the news program or newspapers for there are too much sad, unreasonable, horrible news - the new Covid19 variants, the collapsed medical systems and unfairness of the society, and Cabul… too difficult to watch the news reports from Afghanistan. We should see and know about the situation of this world ( Read more... )

Gloomy. Not about the weather (it's sunny and HOT today!) but my feeling. Maybe not only me, many people. Now 1 year and 6 months of Covid19 have passed, I almost feel like this would never end thus it's very difficult to think about the future ( Read more... )