I got up at 7am this morning, got on a crowded train at 8, worked from 9 to 6.30, went for a quick drink, London Shitland was delayed on the way back, got home at 9.30! And now I’m knackered.
Going to London is overrated!
Today is the third anniversary of this blog. By some sort of dreadful anti-cosmic coincidence, it’s similar to the second anniverary.
Not sure about the whole message there, but anyhow … inspired by this advert, I bought a packet. 59p per packet, and they are quite tiny compared to the real pocky. Also the milk chocolate is horrible compared to the plain chocolate pocky they sell in Japan.
Owwww. I went to the dentist today and I’m going to have them out on April 6th …
BBC Four are having a Japan season soon, starting on Sat 14th March. However good luck finding anything about this on their website which is basically useless. Andrew Graham Dixon’s programme on Samurai looks interesting.
Here is the URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/japan/
Thanks to morisobako and f-yayoi for finding BENINGTON (BENKYOSHIMASU) LORDSHIP gardens …
Benington Lordship Gardens (looks much bigger in the photo than it does in real life) ..
M-kun’s dinkle?
The best bit was the CHICKEN TOILET. N-sama wouldn’t go do OSHINKO because of the chickens by the toilet. Eh tou.
The Great Vegetable Massacre (thanks to b3ta)
My brain is dribbling out of my nose watching The Core (2003). Best (worst) quote: “That’s all Science is, best guess.”
I just opened up another online trading account to buy a few ’000 £ of shares tomorrow morning (or in a few weeks/months, depending on whether US taxpayers decide to fund me or not). Now (or in a few months) is a good time to invest, provided you are willing to hold your investments for minimum 5 years, or more likely 10 years.
On TV there is a person claiming that the fact he bought Bradford & Bingley shares last week which are now worthless is “soviet”. Welcome to the real world … idiot.
And then there’s another article about how buy to let mortgage owners are in trouble. My eyes weep … Oh no, wait: actually they don’t at all. Buy to let landlords have screwed over honest rent payers for decades, and if they all go bankrupt, that’s better for everyone.
We went out picking the last of the season’s elderberries and brambles today. All good until it started to do this:
I spent about an hour during the rest of the day forking the elderberries off the branches, and the ones picked by Team Elderly-berry last week.
So here are the results.
Thanks to N-sama for the photographs.
This represents about 10% of the elderberries. We have a freezer completely full of them:
.. but who is this little fellow??
Snails are quite stupid, having just 11,000 neurons.
And .. Who is this big man?
And where is N-sama? MURDER??
My cousin and I actually did Manic Miner in a whole weekend using an infinite lives poke and lots of reloading. But this is just ridiculous …
I love the way he does the Warehouse. IIRC we spent literally hours trying to work out that level.
(Nice bit of drama if you watch it all the way to the last level).
Rather excellent “Mii-like” tool for making people who look like Legos.
Can you guess who these people are?
“Text” should say something else ??
Looks a bit like a junky:
How To Make A Burning Laser Flashlight
VideoJug is quite a fun website actually. One day I’ll have to make these fish fingers:
I think this is a brilliant concept. This artist called “SLINKACHU” paints snails and then photographs them in urban environments. Previously he was famous for doing these little people on ordinary city streets.
I really hope that the artist lets the snails “go free”, perhaps to be discovered by a bemused commuter, or a snail connoisseur…
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While I was looking at this snail art, I saw that the artist had painted a sadly familiar “tag” on a snail, “TOX.08“. If you regularly travel through London, you will be familiar with the depressing vandalism of this teenager. I found this 10 minute documentary on the internet about the culprit of this eyesore, it’s worth watching because it shows the people who have to clear this spam off tubes, and where tube trains go in the night …
Oriental City has been under threat for so long, but it is finally to close at the end of May, to make way for soulless flats and a DIY superstore. (There aren’t enough DIY superstores in London apparently, so a one-of-its-kind shopping centre has to be leveled to make way for one).
I’ve been going there regularly for at least ten years, but today was the last time.
There aren’t really any alternatives. Chinese Wing Yip, down the road, is expanding, but they don’t have the other shops or non-Chinese food. Japanese TK Trading is miles away.
More discussion of the closure …
Thanks to ex-Mayor Ken Livingstone for valiantly defending the store — oh no, in fact he approved the planning application. Well, he’s been thrown out of office now, but his stupid planning decisions like this and others will linger on.
This is what I got from Utsuwa no Yakata Japanese pottery shop:
A special treat for the tinybirds:
