Dinosaurs are not dead!

I am not very politically correct; my claim to fame is that I managed to avoid all attempts by the HR department of the previous company I worked in to send me to all the diversity courses they planned. I…

Reasonable or not?

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw This has been my moto for a long time now. I…

New year resolution

Very much like 90% of the population, I have made a New Year resolution. This time, I actually went all the way… I recently read Your best year ever from Jenny Ditzler. I went through the book and then sat…

Summer Holidays

On the 9th of August we made our annual trip to France. For our first night, we stayed in Novotel near Senlis, the first bedroom we were given was not quite clean enough as we found some hair in the…

The exam

Like 15,000 other victims I took the mismanaged and poorly organised Japanese Proficiency Test last December but this is not only a test of Japanese Language but also a test of patience. I’ve no gripe with the test itself. It’s…

The rubbish problem

Have you noticed when you come to Japan that everything you buy in the shop is packed for you nicely? Even chewing gums in a packet are individually wrapped!But this mountain of packaging material needs to be disposed off. Everything…