Meat Eating Vegies

I was teaching a class about foods the other day, a student told me he was a vegetarian, so I was a little surprised when he answered my question of what was his favorite food with "I like anything with meat, I'm a paradox."

Here is a picture of me getting to know a very large can of beer recently liberated from a vending machine mmmmm.

I am listening to the BBC at the moment on the edge of my seat, it seems that there really are people ignorant enough to vote for Bush, the mind boggles, even when they accept all the cock-ups they still like him, 'He's tough' and such statements hardly fill me with confidence. The radio isn't the only form of entertainment here though, there is of course TV. Now occasional we get films in English, but if you want non-Japanese language programs your best bet is too learn Spanish, there are loads of dodgy Mexican soaps providing melodrama aplenty.

We tend to think about evacuation as a hardship endured in little Welsh villages during the war. Of course it happened here as well and because of the allied blockade it seems rationing was even worse here. It is the war generation who are the keenest whale eaters, whale meat was used during the war as a cheap and convenient food source.

People here do not lead 9-5 lifestyles I think it is probably more like 9-9, if you catch the trains at what we would consider rush hour then you stand a far better chance of getting a seat than if you travel latter at night. I wondered how they could survive with so much work, then it dawned on me people sleep on the trains, they sit or stand on the subway asleep until there station turns up and the miracuosly they wake up, its an inbuilt instinct a bit like birds migrating across the world!

Hope you are all well,
Roger