Looking forward to the return of Sherlock on BBC, watching Season 2 again now :)


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I have the LG Google Nexus 5 for Christmas, and of course it’s up and running because I have to make sure everything works! Having a bit of trouble with O2 (the network), but that’s another story ( Read more... )

A while ago I came across “Haiga Illustrated Haiku Poems” on Amazon UK by Yukki Yaura and Suiyu Enomoto and bagged myself a good second-hand copy. I’ve only just had a chance to really have a proper look at it, and there are some lovely haiku ( Read more... )

While watching my "Scene" Concert DVD again I've finally decided to sate my curiosity as to the English writing on the back of the boy's jackets towards the end of Disc 1. Ohno, Aiba and Sho were easy. Nino and Jun were a bit more difficult to catch, but I think I got it in the end:

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The little bugger sits outside my bedroom window at 5 am every morning and sings its head off, so noisy!

So, in honour of cute little creatures who can make one hell of a racket…

Sound File from this morning:

http://snk.to/f-cdti6iic

Summer Haiku by Kobayashi Issa from the book “Classic Haiku a master’s selection”:


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I've never heard All-American Boy before, but I like this version very much, especially coupled with the video. The artist has Facebook and a Bandcamp page if you want to download the track and "name your price". Help support the talent :)

https://www.facebook.com/SteveGrandArtist

http://stevegrand.bandcamp.com/

Click to view

Witch-Wife

By

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950).

SHE is neither pink nor pale,
And she never will be all mine;
She learned her hands in a fairy-tale,
And her mouth on a valentine.

She has more hair than she needs;        
In the sun ’tis a woe to me!
And her voice is a string of colored beads,
Or steps leading into the sea.

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The following poems are about my favourite band, Japanese pop group 嵐 Arashi.

returning
lovely Arashi
in the rain

(3; 2-3; 1-1-1)
Thoughts: Arashi 5x10 Concert DVD, rain, encore; no season.
Written 8th September 2011

rainbow smiles
our hearts fluttering
“We Make Soul”

(2-1; 1-1-3; 1-1-1)
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You wouldn't think something so short would cause problems, but really you get more context in a larger piece of work... not that that would help me much!

At the moment, I'm never really sure which way round things should go grammar wise, I was terrible at English (British) grammar before I started trying to learn Japanese, and I'm not much ( Read more... )