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	<description>Enjoying the sights, sounds and smells of first-time parenthood. Progress on the vegetable garden and other ramblings of a gaijin in Japan's least populous prefecture.</description>
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		<title>The sweetest thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the warmer weather and turnings with the new fork, the compost’s stench of ammonia has given way to the scent of geranium. Quite a bit of the putrefying stuff got dug in prior to the potatoes, beans and peas. With the bulk of it gone, it was easier to arrange layers of green and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adekun.com/2008/05/the-sweetest-thing</link>
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		<title>Nine out of ten Japanese prefer pasta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Price rise announcements are now a common precursor to each month. Earlier in the year there were reports of Japan’s WPI being at a 27 year high and CPI being hitting decade highs. In a country where the economy is as stagnant as the wages, cost-driven inflation is really spanner in the works. Being so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adekun.com/2008/05/nine-out-of-ten-japanese-prefer-pasta</link>
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		<title>Sanbutsuji</title>
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A little way from nearby Kurayoshi is the town of Misasa. While the town is famed for it’s radon spas, Sanbutsuji set upon Mitokusan (Mt. Mitoku) really draws the crowds. The temple’s pinnacle is Nageiredo hall. Back in 706 it is said to have been thrown in the mountain by a monk. It rests between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adekun.com/2008/05/sanbutsuji</link>
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		<title>Tomato tribulations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been too hasty planting out the summer vegetables. It probably would have been okay if it wasn’t for the weather that soon followed. Since the cold and the rain it has been super hot; a bit too hot for digging. The leaves on the tomatoes promptly grew dark brown spots. I wondered if I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adekun.com/2008/05/tomato-tribulations</link>
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		<title>Out came the sunshine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking of giving this post the title of adekun’s arse smorgasbord. It’s really been a two pronged assault. Firstly, my wife decided to quite wisely store my garden clothes outside in the plastic ‘bunker’ along with the biting insects. The other more lately, is the onset of warmer weather and with it mosquitoes. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adekun.com/2008/04/out-came-the-sunshine</link>
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		<title>Sayonara sakura</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As mentioned before it has been windy and rainy the past week. The sakura held out for the sakura matsuri (cherry blossom festival) on Saturday. Cloudy early on, it soon warmed up. We walked through the park, through wafts of pink petals and barbeques.

A little further to the south, the following afternoon was spent around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adekun.com/2008/04/sayonara-sakura</link>
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		<title>Crunch time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m probably going to regret not going hanami last Sunday. Since then, the weather has taken a turn for the worse. The last few days the rain has been heavy and I wonder if there will be any sakura blossom left on the trees. It’s good for the garden though. No amount of rain was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adekun.com/2008/04/crunch-time</link>
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		<title>Asparagus action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a busy month both in and out of the garden. The cabbage went to soup; eight mini ones (those that didn’t swell) with some of the beetroot. My wife made lots of kimchi with the hakusai. I’ve been trying to manage the consumption of the latter around teaching. On Tuesday I espied the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adekun.com/2008/03/asparagus-action</link>
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		<title>Haruichiban</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A year and two weeks ago I put up a post about haruichiban, the first strong winds of the year. Just as this year’s winds arrived we had our own mini whirlwind as the Yoshihara family descended upon us. Both parents are long time friends of my wife and the have four young daughters; there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adekun.com/2008/02/haruichiban</link>
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		<title>Does my bum look big in this?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Plenty of snow fell over the weekend. On Sunday I started heaping some on the half buried snowman. The carrot nose and hair we gave him was nowhere to be seen. Despite a late start, it was still light as my fingers grew purple. Maybe with a wooden handle and the warmth from shovelling I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.adekun.com/2008/02/does-my-bum-look-big-in-this</link>
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