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Ah, the cherry blossom viewing - aka "hanami" - season is upon us in Japan! You know what that means? Sitting on a picnic bla...

At the beginning of this week the Mrs and I returned to Nagasaki to attend our daughter's graduation from Nagasaki University where...

A couple of days ago I tracked down our retired Splinterlands Index Guild Co-Leader @jongolson to see if he would be willing to promote ...

You might call it "robbing Peter to pay Paul" but on the last day of February I sold a few of my precious CTPSB tokens to buy ...

If you're heading to Nagasaki on the spanking new bullet train and feeling a bit peckish, just let your hunger build until you get to t...

If you want to enhance the beauty of your skin, Ureshino Onsen is the place to go. Not only does it have silky smooth hot sprin...

Visited Ureshino Onsen, a hot spring resort in Saga Prefecture, Kyushu, yesterday. The hot spring is known for the silky-smooth quality...

Last year I started a new YouTube channel called Fit50sAndBeyond https://www.youtube.com/@Fit50sAndBeyond with the idea of reaching out ...

Meanwhile, back at the Board Room on Friday evening five of the usual suspects played "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shadows of ...

How was the morning of Valentine's Day 2025 for you? Mine seemed to be going well! Not in the "chocolate and flowers" departme...

Today was a national holiday in Japan: National Foundation Day (Kenkoku Kinen no Hi, 建国記念の日). It commemorates the mythical founding of ...

The doughty minifig knight errant, Sir Richard Radclyffe, has sallied forth on a quest with a small group of loyal retainers... They wer...

Sauntering down the hill from my morning teaching gig, I made this walking talking video to gather my thoughts about a time-limited prod...

Tomorrow I'll start teaching a 15 year old Japanese ballerina German! The young lady in question is preparing for a ballet exam that wil...

Last weekend I played the board game "Oath" for the first time, along with four other players, John (our host), Karl (the ga...

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In this morning's community centre English conversation class a couple of the students mentioned plants that bloom in January in Japan....

Bit of a strange day today. I was on my way to the school where I teach German to meet a potential student who wants to study ballet in...

In February 2024 I launched my most successful "marketing funnel" to date... my "100% commission Funnel." As I wrote...

Time to get organized! I've been thinking about doing this for a while, but a recent post by @alex-rourke prompted me to get it done: htt...

Robert Greene's "Daily Law" for 10th of January is, Embrace your weirdness The idea is encapsulated by the concluding thought...

The Japanese "hiragana" syllable that the 17th proverb of the Iroha Karuta playing card deck illustrates is "re," an...

This is how I saw in 2025: I was studying problems in the art of "Ablenkung" ("distraction") in a good old East Germ...

Hello folks, David Hurley here on New Year's Eve 2024. In this video and blog post I'm going to break out my first beer of the day and h...

Last night I went into town to hook up with my favourite former student, who's back in Hiroshima for the New Year holidays. I suggest...

2024 has been an interesting year for me personally let alone current affairs, which I am going to almost completely ignore in this blog...

Today's walkie-talkie video is all about a big change that SFI announced at the beginning of the month! Although "SFI" is still...

A few weeks ago I blogged about how I was using ChatGPT to create an English language study blog for online teaching: https://hive.blog/...

For the last four days I have had no appointments or teaching commitments at all - nothing except dinner out with the Mrs last night. Apa...

Earlier this week I blogged about receiving a souvenir "frog-bun" ("kaeru manju") from a student who had just come ba...