I've always wanted to be reborn as a Magnolia, especially white one, but the other day my father cut off a branch that had grown up to the upstairs roof due to excessive neglect over the summer, and I was clearing up the fallen branches wh…

Our puppy, who we got in August, is now 4 months old and weighs 15 kg, he is more like a boy than a baby already. He has learnt that things go smoother when he is well behaved and often waits for our response in the wait position.His cleve…

I consider learning something like a foreign language to be a form of enjoyment, and irresponsible enjoyment because I don't make it my profession. My late mother sometimes sighed and asked me what I was studying it for. 'Why do you devote…

I read in a book somewhere that in a Japanese family, the wife who had lost her husband lamented, "I can't do anything without 'my father'." I think it must have been some time ago, in a rather wealthy family. She would have asked a maid t…

One day, out of the blue, my father received a postcard, it was more than ten years ago. It was printed, and it said that the sender had not long to live, and 'Farewell!' He showed it to me as if he didn't know what to do with it. Or perha…

As I passed by the handicraft shop, I remembered that I made a lot of cloth masks in the spring and summer of 2020. It was the Corona disaster that inspired me to make them. By the beginning of the year, disposable masks would have been av…

As well as preparing Christmas cards, it's time to start preparing our diaries and calendars for the coming year. I like calendars with the phases of the moon and the 24 solar terms that have been around for a long time in Japanese life th…

Although it is still hot, I have started to prepare Christmas cards. For Japanese, Christmas is just one of those events that puts us in a happy mood for the end and the beginning of the year and eating cakes (SORRY if anyone feels inappro…

The reason I don't include images on the blog is that I don't want it to be too heavy, which is a remnant of the days of slow internet speed (I don't have to worry about that now though) and because, as they say, 'a picture is worth a thou…

I have sent four follow-up cards in 2021 so far and three of them have arrived safely The other one may be difficult as it seems to be in a bad postal area. I'm not a perfectionist (although I used to be, and I tortured myself and sometime…

If you'd like to collect 風景印 'Fukei-in', scenery postmarks in Japan.1. PREPARE a mount with a stamp of a value greater than the postcard's postage cost 63JPY(0.57USD) as of today, or an official postcard (官製はがき Kansei-hagaki) you c…

I didn't know there was such a thing as a 'international Illustrated postcard' issued by Japan Post. They also issued the official postcard for the Tokyo2020 Olympics which were already closed, when I get ones I will send them to my friend…

I like the film "Les contes de la nuit" (2011) by Michel Ocelot, France. Five of the ten episodes of the 2010 TV short film series "Dragon & Princess" (French version), plus one new episode, were combined into one film. I suppose that ther…

The municipality where I live is very active in animal welfare and was one of the first in the country to achieve zero killing of dogs and cats. While I am very proud of this, I am not directly involved in it.What can I contribute to socie…

The days are still over 30 degrees. Today I took my dog to a nearby lake for a dip. There were still many people who came to bathe in the lake. Parents and children were playing in the wide shallow water, but dogs are not allowed in. ​I kn…

Have you ever heard of UNIQLO? It's an apparel retailer from Japan. When I was a child, UNIQLO set up shops in the suburbs, and its presence was unique.However, the range of products looked cheap and poor quality, and not sure where they w…

The summer festivities have all but passed us by. The mornings and evenings have become cooler and it seems that my hibernation mode switch has started its maintenance before going into full swing. In other words, I am sleepy. How are you?

As I lay on the sofa after a long morning's work, I felt as if I were lying on a raft on the beach and the waves were dragging me further and further out to the sea. Then, before I knew it, I was dreaming that I was immersed in the shallow…

While I was looking for postage stamps for this year's International letter-writing week, I noticed that the stamps for the 76th National Sports Festival have been canceled. This year's host would be Mie Prefecture, and I wonder if they ar…

We went to a small wedding ceremony of my sibling, no one noticed that we were not taking a portrait photo of my late mother with us. It happened naturally, I thought it would be a good thing for us as it's hard to stare at death all the t…

I live within a stone’s throw of a mailbox, red square nice one. Even the short distance bothers me to post when it rains or the sun tortures. (I know how lazy I am.) Post office changed the box newer a few years ago, he is made of I suppo…