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Hanami in Amakusa: Over the weekend I visited Amakusa, the sun was shining but the wind was cool. We did Hanami (pinic outside under the cherry blossom) and also went to, 2 churches in Amakusa. By chance we saw a scarecrow festival, check out the pictures below which were funny.

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Aso Fire Festival: Last week we went to the 'Aso Fire Festival'. Since moving to Kumamoto I had always wanted to go to this festival as it looked pretty interesting, plus I had heard stories from people who had been...

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ぴかぴか(shiny) table: One of our tables was looking like it had passed its best days, so instead of chucking it on the fire I set out to do a bit of table restoration... ok what i really mean is I gave it a varnish...

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Kanji studying: If you may not have realised I live in Japan, and when you live in a country that doesn’t speak your language it is better to learn the lingo. Even though I have been putting the idea of studying kanji off, I knew at some point I would have to start. By starting these kanji studying posts, I hope it gives me the motivation to keep learning.

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Bamboo Lantern: This has been an on going progject of mine for a while now, I thought it would be finished quite quickly but...

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Bicycle shelter: With my bicycle always being in direct sunlight, I thought I would build it a home to live in.

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Balloon Art: Back in November of 2011 I joined a Story telling event for kids at the local library where I live. It was work related and I was reading...

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New website design: I finally got around to updating my site with a design that I have been working in my spare time. The below text can...

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