glimpses of the unfamiliar

Did I mention the heat?

The Japanese summer is the sound of 1000 cicadas in unison, so loud it cannot possibly be just some insects; it’s vast numbers of dragon flies, sortying across the sky in twos and threes and fours. It’s the sweet, sick smell of the drains; it’s scurrying across from one patch of shade to another; theContinueContinue reading “Did I mention the heat?”

Holidays

We have just come back from a week in Devon, in Ottery St. Mary. From the name, I was expecting a tiny hamlet, but it turns out to be a decent sized town. As it happens, I knew of Ottery St Mary before we went, not only from the signs on the A30, but asContinueContinue reading “Holidays”