There have been so many things happening this autumn and I would have had to write a couple of posts per week to cover what I would like to share. But since I am on a one post per week pace, my autumn stories will focus on the highlights, albeit sometimes presented a bit late. But […]
One of the things I like most about our son’s kindergarten, is the different events they arrange during the year. The end of school year recital where the children perform, the summer concert, the sports day and then in autumn the art exhibition. This year a theme of our son’s class has been play with
Another week, another museum, this time the immersive ukiyo-e temporary exhibition in Hakata, Fukuoka. I have all summer seen advertisements on Instagram for this exhibition, and I really got tempted to go and experience this for myself. It was the last week of the exhibition when we finally made it to Hakata station. I had
What can be better than a beautiful spring day and a drive along the Itoshima coast line? Well, it turns out, a drive in pouring rain. Our family has a favorite beach where we often go to swim during summer, and every so often when we take a leisurely Sunday drive in the off-season, we
Every autumn our son’s kindergarten organizes an art exhibition with objects and pictures that the children have created since summer. Our son has been very secretive about what they are doing. The last few weeks, when coming home he did not want to share much of his day in anticipation of having his parents come
When typhoon number 10 of this year, or Shanshan as it is called, approached Kyushu the other day, the anticipated trajectory would put us close to its path and as the typhoon grew in strength, businesses and the city government prepared for its arrival. And so did we. Many shops and medical clinics contacted its
I often feel like one of those lawn moving robots that have become so popular in Sweden. Nowadays you can see them in every other backyard, spending their days crawling around on the lawn, cutting the grass. What I do is spending all my waking hours crawling around inside a Japanese home instead, cleaning up