on the edge of ordinary

I'm frustrated and discouraged this afternoon. Being a mum is a hard slog. Being a mum of teenagers is not for the fainthearted.  I...

Notes that two different friends gave us yesterday. Both from people we didn't know when we came back three years ago. Where is h...

In this huge metropolis that's one and half times the population of my home country, it amazes me how much green there is. There seems ...

I've told you in previous blog posts that  we live  out of the main centre of Tokyo. It's a 30 to 45 min train ride to the nearest ...

Wow, it's been more than a month since I wrote one of these. This post isn't so much about our city of Higashi Kurume, although...

As I wrote in my first post of this series: Wikipedia says: "Higashikurume is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropo...

Our city has one train line running through it called the  Seibu Ikebukuro line . It is owned by a private company, Sebu Railway, and origin...

Our street during a flash flood in August. You might have been concerned after reading my last post  about our city. We live very clos...

Here is where the two main rivers of our city join, less than 1km from our house. Continuing my posts about our city and trying not to ...

I've been toying with the idea of blogging about our city, especially using photos. There's so much I don't know about where we...