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November 2016

Hello all, November, November, I scarcely remember. November has always felt like a filler month to me; nowadays it’s little more than an extension of December, everyone just anticipating Christmas now that we’ve got the pesky first five sixths of the year out of the way. Certainly, there’s very little to distinguish it from its…

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5 Restaurants you must visit in the Kansai area

  Good restaurants are usually hard to find, especially if you’re looking for some that have successfully mimicked the flavors of the west, from the gravamen to the bone itself. If you’ve been on the hunt and have come up empty handed, I’m here to reassure you to ‘look no further!’ In this article, I’ll…

Book Club 16 Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls
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Book Club 16 Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls

  The HAJET book club met on Sunday September 4th to discuss our first book of the year, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris.   This book is actually a group of essays,mostly from the point of view from the author and inspired by his own life. It was interesting that a few…

Rebecca on an Aeroplane

Rebecca on an Aeroplane

  Last night, I had a dream we flew Pacific Northwest again. But we never can. I suppose I should introduce myself, but I won’t; suffice to say, you’d probably pronounce my name wrong. Certainly they did when I first boarded that plane, all those years ago: “Hello, Miss” an incomprehensible murmur. Nowadays, I would…

The Bienvenant
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The Bienvenant

  The Bienvenant is one of the more modern species of ghosts, and possibly the first I ever personally encountered. They are largely benevolent, existing mostly to put at ease newcomers to their haunt.   When I was twenty three, I moved to the city of Edinburgh and was welcomed by a downpour the likes…

Don’t Go There
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Don’t Go There

I’ve done a few programmes like JET now; stuff where you’re in an unfamiliar environment, working in exotic locales (or, at least, more exotic than where you’d normally be) and generally away from the life you knew for quite a long period of time. Inevitably, people get misty-eyed and want to return. I always tell…