Why being optimistic is a waste of time
What can you say its not just the losing its everything... I wrote that after Ireland lost to France and its just got worse. So I shant dwell on it not now anyway.
Keeping the sporting theme and returning to Japan, I saw for the first time the Japanese version of Croquet. Its called box ball I think and is some kind of tactical variation on the normal game. They hit the balls like in golf as well so it all looked a little strange. Perhaps if my language skills are ever up to it I might try and discover the secrets of the game.
Anyone who has been in an amusements arcade at home must have felt a little disappointed the games you want to play are always busy or broken. Not so in Japan. Here the arcades are at least 6 stories high and there are millions and millions of different things to try. I was forced against my better judgment onto a dance game, it basically involves stamping on different squares in time with a beat ... ummm ... Should be simple un less you have co-ordination like me and get the giggles after the first few seconds, I laughed a lot but I don't think I managed to hit any of the squares at the right time! Still very entertaining and more fun than the DJ game we tried afterwards, to be honest I couldn't really begin to work that one out. The noise and the flashing lights get to you after a while and it was a relief to place the coin push game (where you drop a coin onto a ledge and wait of hundreds of others to fall off). Only this was with chocolate so as we only managed to win about three coins probably the most expensive chocolate money in the world.
Food is pretty important to me of course and when Maurice was down from Tokyo we went to an all you can eat and drink restaurant. You get 90 minutes to chop and glug your way through as much as you can. Its a bit unfair really because you collect the food from the buffet and then deep fry it at your table and fried　food fills one up pretty quickly. Still it was a good experience and took me about three days to stop feeling swollen. We followed the experience with a trip to a Beatles bar in Osaka. They were pretty good at sounding like the fab four but they didn't look so similar, it was all a bit surreal.
Its meant to be spring and there are some signs of blossomage emerging on the trees but there is a lot of rain as well. The other night in fact a few weeks ago I was cycling home at night it was a bit of a snow storm type thing. As I was slowing down to cross a road a particularly strong gust of wind picked me up and slammed me and my bike against the railings of the pavement. It was more funny than scarry but definitely not what I had expected.
So life is good if you forget about the rugby and focus on something, anything else,
Hope you are all in fine fettle,
Roger
Keeping the sporting theme and returning to Japan, I saw for the first time the Japanese version of Croquet. Its called box ball I think and is some kind of tactical variation on the normal game. They hit the balls like in golf as well so it all looked a little strange. Perhaps if my language skills are ever up to it I might try and discover the secrets of the game.
Anyone who has been in an amusements arcade at home must have felt a little disappointed the games you want to play are always busy or broken. Not so in Japan. Here the arcades are at least 6 stories high and there are millions and millions of different things to try. I was forced against my better judgment onto a dance game, it basically involves stamping on different squares in time with a beat ... ummm ... Should be simple un less you have co-ordination like me and get the giggles after the first few seconds, I laughed a lot but I don't think I managed to hit any of the squares at the right time! Still very entertaining and more fun than the DJ game we tried afterwards, to be honest I couldn't really begin to work that one out. The noise and the flashing lights get to you after a while and it was a relief to place the coin push game (where you drop a coin onto a ledge and wait of hundreds of others to fall off). Only this was with chocolate so as we only managed to win about three coins probably the most expensive chocolate money in the world.
Food is pretty important to me of course and when Maurice was down from Tokyo we went to an all you can eat and drink restaurant. You get 90 minutes to chop and glug your way through as much as you can. Its a bit unfair really because you collect the food from the buffet and then deep fry it at your table and fried　food fills one up pretty quickly. Still it was a good experience and took me about three days to stop feeling swollen. We followed the experience with a trip to a Beatles bar in Osaka. They were pretty good at sounding like the fab four but they didn't look so similar, it was all a bit surreal.
Its meant to be spring and there are some signs of blossomage emerging on the trees but there is a lot of rain as well. The other night in fact a few weeks ago I was cycling home at night it was a bit of a snow storm type thing. As I was slowing down to cross a road a particularly strong gust of wind picked me up and slammed me and my bike against the railings of the pavement. It was more funny than scarry but definitely not what I had expected.
So life is good if you forget about the rugby and focus on something, anything else,
Hope you are all in fine fettle,
Roger
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