adekun’s japan blog

My mother usually buys this large loaf to cut up for toast, as the smaller ones tend to be too sweet. At €2 a piece it makes those back in Japan seem like an excessive treat. We are all off west for a week on what might turn out to be a busman’s holiday.

Here are two of the photos I picked up yesterday. In spite of being particularly fond of the surroundings, I’m itching to get back and check up on things. It’s not just to quell the urge to nurture or because the potatoes need earthing up. There is something enchanting about growing things. Something that turned the tedium of garden centres into attraction.

Some tomatoes taking shape and a pepper just in shot. Plenty of foliage on the ground, replacing the momigara.

Potatoes that need attention.

Cucumbers are also forming and an aubergine has already reached the ground.

We have been in France a couple of days, following our week in England. The weather at the moment isn’t much of an improvement, but I am relieved to see it’s much the same back in Japan. Earlier today, I received an email from my sister-in-law with a few photos of the garden, which is already beginning to bear fruit (and veg).
Our long haul trip over was relaxed and was helped a great deal with a baby bassinet. When Kento wasn’t sleeping, he was waving at everybody queuing for the toilet – which was for most of the flight.

Tomorrow we begin our trip back to Europe - at least to a hotel near to the airport. I shall be without an internet connection for the first couple of weeks (and a garden for a couple of months). Hopefully be able to resume posting after that, so stay tuned.
Everybody here as been very generous in donating clothes, their own kiddies have outgrown. Here Kento is sitting astride his latest gift. I hope the new waste regulations bring about even more Reuse and Recycling.