Test

Testing out a blog from the iPhone!

Also a photo!

Blogging from an i pad in an apple store…

Blogging from an i pad in an apple store in ginza. Fantastic device!

  1. clean! i tried one out today in brighton. a delight to use…

  2. Mmm. Does it allow drag and drop, that’s the question?

  3. That is to say, can it be independant of that foulness known as itunes?

Blast zoundry!

  1. There’s nowt wrong with the Raven. Resize your photos 512 x 384 and Zoundry’s a breeze.

Hail!

Here are some pictures that have been hanging around for ages!

Snow on our roof.

In front of a high tec train.

The quiet mountain town we went to for our onsen trip a while back.

Ingenious method of keeping snow off the road. Water is sprayed from cats eye like things continuously.

View from the window of our onsen. That cage on the right contained a couple of bears, which i didn’t photograph for some reason!

Mayumi!

Our drink store.

The traditional finery

The resplendant meal!

Tucking in to the Udon noodles.

Me too!

Snow with bamboo.

Pretty genki around here. Looking forward to popping back in a few months!

  1. not sure what’s up with your photos. try uploading one without zoundry raven and see if it works. or email them to me.

    1. carotte

      Good photo’s – shame you didn’t get the bears! Might make it over one of these days.

  2. Pretty genki here, too, what with the nationwide warm weather shortage finally coming to an end. Astonishing to see your sheep(?)skin coat is still going strong!

  3. good pics jul. like the small bamboo grove.

    1. Yes, very well spaced bamboo – I wonder how they do that; ours always ends in a clump.

haha! they are pretty neat. i look like …

haha! they are pretty neat. i look like some sort of crazy mountain man!

  1. ah yes, I see it now. more hysterical than crazy perhaps;-)

Hello all! Happy belated birthday Mama! You prezzy will be a little late im afraid, but it’s on it’s way.

I finally downloaded picasa and the blogging program, so here are the picture from a while back.

Here are a few from the beach when i went up to Mayumi’s family home.

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Very pleasant and sunny.

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Here are some older ones from Korea.

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That thing in the middle of the table that looks like a glistening alien thorax is in fact raw crab.

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Mayumi can’t wait to get at the succulent alien spleen.

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A fine eatery in Izu, the place we went for the hot springs.

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Same place, different angle. they had very good scallops cooked in butter.

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At the hotel, dressed in my finery.

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Out side in the town nearby. very nice place with old style buildings. It had an area called Perry town after Commodore Perry who aided in opening japan to trade with the west.

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Im sporting a touch of a side parting for some reason.

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Old house with a mix of Japanese and western aesthetics.

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A canon. possible one of perry’s favoured canon for slaying the natives.

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A cactus. Perhaps unrelated to Perry.

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Delightful cooking pot experience in one of the private onsens.

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Mayumi, being small, could completely submerge herself.

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Mayumi crafting food at the homestead.

Ill see if i can scrounge up some more photos!

Alls well here! 🙂

  1. nice photos jul. are those bananas being frittered up? and do you think, maybe, your hair might be too long?;-)

  2. haha! nonsense! i believe they are slabs of potato. scrumtious!

  3. Those cooking pots defy belief. Every home should have one.