on the edge of ordinary

January is turning into quite a social month, as many people have a little more free time before school and many other activities start in a...

Last week on social media I posted about one of the things I love to do at Christmas time: make chocolate fudge and give it to each of our b...

When we first came to Japan in 2000 it was a significantly more expensive place to live compared to Australia. Since then prices haven'...

One of the first things we owned in Japan: a family seal. Did you know that we rarely sign things in Japan? In fact I usually have to p...

I haven't done much price comparison here before ( once in 2011 ), but this one particularly intrigues me. This article  looks at cof...

Camping and photography combined last summer! Taken at sunrise at Lake Biwa. I slipped off the wagon with this one. It's been a mon...

Here is another topic that hits missionary's budgets: heating. I wrote a more detailed blog post about this some time ago, that you can...

Last week I learned something new about American cheques, via comments on my FB page about how Americans vs Australians say numbers in thei...

I just downloaded this from  https://stocksnap.io . It will be me tomorrow as I catch trains across Tokyo and then fly to Bangkok. (But ...

I found a blog post last month that aired some taboo topics. It's covers areas that most missionaries secretly struggle with. These pe...

Average rent in Tokyo for a 3LDK^ is 162,000 yen per month, or just under AU$1,700 per month. Our house is technically a 4LDK, but it is old...

I was saved by only 35 yen today (about 40 cents). It's something that catches me every time I come back after an extended time in Austr...

During the Falkland War (1982) the Argentinean military leaders placed many Argentinean soldiers on the Falkland Islands to occupy them. The...

I had a lot of comments on my Facebook page as a result of yesterday's post about missionaries and fashion . I thought that I'd post...

It is common for missionaries to talk about the re-entry culture shock of grocery shopping. Japan to Australia isn't as bad as from a co...

My 8 y.o. asked me this the other day about my editing work. My first response was, "No." But when I stopped for a second and th...

Recently I read a blog post  by a former missionary-in-Japan about judging. About the areas about which people tend to judge missionaries: ...