| Monday 31st December, "Hogmany" |
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Back from Glasgow in monumental hungover. Evening we had dinner together only with kate Shiblings in Indian restaurant in town. Then moved to Sculpture Court at Edinburgh College of Art, Where we went to the big dance party all night. Happy New Year Everybody!(HK) |
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| Monday 30th December, "Glasgow" |
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We have met old friend at "Babity Bowsters", where we all ised to go years. Paul and Fiona were in good shape , and so was Elly and Micheal. Stayed with them.(HK) |
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Glasgow Museum of Modern Art. |
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| Monday 29th December, "Kiss Me ,Kate" |
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We all went to see classic musical masterpiece "Kiss Me, Kate" at Edinburgh Festival Theatre. For Sean it was too much singing, he complained.
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| Tuesday 28th December, "Scottish Parliament" |
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New Scottish Parliament(HK) |
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| Monday 27th December, "Horse Riding" |
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last day of Emily's horse riding.(HK) |
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Dinner at Charlie and Mel's house.(HK) |
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| Sunday 26th December, "Boxing Day" |
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Monopoly, and walkon the Observatory hill.(HK) |
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| Saturday 25th December, "Happy Christmas!" |
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| Friday 24th December, "Christmas Eve" |
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Emily helping packing christmas present.(HK) |
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Sean opened one present.(HK) |
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| Thursday 23rd December, "Vic & Jill" |
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Christmas shopping at Princess street.(HK) |
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| Wedensday 22nd December, "Friend's Visit" |
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Caroline and Gail(HK) |
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| Tuesday 21st December, "Sleeping Beauty" |
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Emily's first horse riding.(HK) |
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"Sleeping Beauty" at Royal Ryciuem Theatre in Edinburgh.(HK) |
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| Monday 20th December, "Siblings" |
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Tea at Mary's house, Party at Middleby street(HK) |
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| Sunday 19th December, "Last Day in London" |
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Lunch at Caroline and Michael.(HK) |
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Leaving King's Cross to Edinburgh.(HK) |
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| Saturday 18th December, "Museums and Sushi" |
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"Heyward Gallery", "Saatchi and Saachi Gallery", |
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Yosushi |
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"Dalwich Picture Museum" |
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| Friday 17th December, "British Science Museum" |
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"British Science Museum".(HK) |
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"Victoria & Albert Museum".(HK) |
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Mike has cooked beautifull lux fished by himself(HK) |
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| Thursday 16th December, "Lion King" |
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In south Kensington, the Natural History Museum was full day out.(HK) |
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National Portrate Gallery.(HK) |
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"Lion King" at Royal Rycium Theatre.(HK) |
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| Wedensday 15th December, "Platform 9&3/4" |
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Went down to London by train, which takes about 4 and a half hours. |
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We arrived in King's Cross in London, and first thig we did was to see the "Platform 9&3/4" from Harry Potter! Trolly is half in the wall! (HK) |
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The British Museum. Saw the exhibition called "Mummy; the inside story". |
| Then We went to Japanese Embassy for the Christmas party organised by British Japan Society. Had dinner at Philida and Christoprer's house and came back with Mike. to his house we stayed（HK) |
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| Tuesday 14th December, "Family Reumion" |
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All the family gathered with their children for supper.(HK) |
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| Monday 13th December, "Flight Over Siberia" |
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Our airplane took off at 11:00AM from Narita to Edinburgh. Jill drove us to the airport this morning. Funtastic view of Siberia without any cloud out from the window. (HK) |
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| Sunday 12th December, "Vic & Jill" |
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Went down to Tokyo today. We fropped in to see "Kusama Yayoi" exhibiton at the Tokyo National Modern Museum. We stayed with Vic & Jill in Narita.(HK) |
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| Saturday 11th December, "Xmas" |
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Emily and Sean dressed up for the seasonal greeting card. Also getting ready to go to Scotland for Xmas, taking Cinnamon and Bobby to our friends. Lock up studioand houses. (HK) |
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| Thirsday 9th December, "Paint" |
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Kate and Me, Ms.Sato, the curator from Ishigaminoka Museum are painting our playing sculpture made in Iwate Symposium last summer. (HK) |
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| Wedensday 8th December, "Nengajo" |
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Preparing Nengajo(New Year greeting card). I always use my favourite Alps printer MD5500 for printing. This is the old type machine which has the dot impact printing system. Much more weather proof and looks better than any other ink jet printer. Unfortunately Alps has lost in the battle of PC printer market, so they stopped producing this printer any more. (HK) |
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| Saturday 4th December, "Shoes" |
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We took Sean and Emily to the dentist in Morioka. Sean had baby teeth pulled out. Emily was OK. Now he can blow the bubble gum first time in his life?! |
| Also stopped in several places in Morioka today. Toysarus, in where we only looked at thing, nothing bought. And shoe shop. I believe that we founf pretty good shoe shop where shop keepers are so patient, as even can wait for us looking thourgh one to snother for hours. That's great. He gave us even very good informations and advices of which shoes for good. I liked it! We bought Emily and Sean a good city walking shoes and a sneeker for myself. I love shoes. (HK) |
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| Friday 3rd December, "Water" |
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Our well water has a little bit of iron and some metal ions too much, so this is the ion exchange unit to clean the water very well. This does not look gromourous at the moment, but it works perfectly. My friend, who is the proffesional of this area of science helped us to set up this system cheep! Cofee taste good with our water.(HK) |
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| Thursday 2nd December, "Open School" |
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Just remembered that we have open school today, and run into the classes with kate still in working clothes. Sean was in art class, Emily was in science class.(HK) |
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