Hardly Antipodes

Found these accidentally Hogwarts-themed jewellery pieces in the back of the in-flight magazine today

I call it a 'springlet'

I want this picture and I don't even like it. What is this feeling?

Duolingo made me sad.

One of my students drew this picture of me as a good bye present. Take a good look. This is the only time I will ever be pictures in a wedding dress.

Saw this lovely illustration in a book on manners that I found. So glad to be taught where the culturally appropriate place to slap my woman is.

Hairdresser in Tokyo.

A box of Guinea Pigs in the local petting zoo!

Onsen in Chichibu

A drawing I did of the river in my town.

Traditional Japanese Spring vegetables. We had a spring feast at my friend's country house.

There are some problems with our textbook...

Sakura in Yoyogi Park.

Kuromitsu Matcha in Akihabara

Over the long weekend we went for High Tea at the Chizanso Hotel in Tokyo.

It's spring!

An abandoned school I went to that was turned into a recreation centre. It's about one hundred years old but will be demolished next year.