I visited my old secondary school, Plymstock School, at 8:30am, and now I have a completely and utterly full van. This is only my second school to visit, but to be fair we did collect a huge amount of stuff on the weekend at my unplanned stop at Morrisons. The Plymstock School students and staff [...]

Everyone keeps asking me what it was like being in Saipan on March 11th, so here goes …. It’s absolutely NOTHING compared to what everyone else has been through but nonetheless friends are interested. I was sitting at the beachside outdoor restaurant, in my usual spot overlooking the sea, and working on the fifth chapter [...]

I know some people might find it amusing that I care about my dogs as much as I do but those that know me well know how much they mean to me and indulge me in that. Usually I try not to leave Japan for more than ten days because I don’t like being away [...]

Now THIS is what I came here for! I started the day with a 4K run (how much do I love yesterday’s acupuncture that sorted out my sciatica?!) at the end of which I popped into the corner shop near Mum’s to ask them to support Japan how they could. A couple of lads were [...]