Train snacks

Its so cute! Well... so Japanese at any rate, only in Japan can you buy snacks from the train when you're not actually on the train yet..

Mille

I was window shopping today and saw this ...... would love to own it but its rather expensive :-(
Still I can dream......

Good & Bad

First the bad.... it was really nasty weather this weekend, wet and cold. Made me loathed to

leave the house but nevermind, sometimes these things are necessary..... Here is my station looking grey, and miserable........

Next the good...got a photo published in the Metropolis free magazine this week.. submitted it a while back and had totally forgotton about it so was very suprised when someone said it was there... here is the website

and an edited version of

the original --------->

A good start!

As is usual for the new year one ambition is to try to become healthier.. so with this in mind decided to visit one of my favorite hamburger places to "kick things off" as it were... Double cheeseburger with extra cheese.. mmmmmmmmm.







But seriously, going to try to get fitter this year so have set a limit of a burger once a week and going to do my best to stick to it!

あけましておめでとうございます (Happy New Year!)

Well its here, another year starts the first to be recorded on here. What did I do? Well the somewhat traditional practice of going to the local shrine and praying for a good new year.

Arrived at about 11:15pm, hardly anyone there yet, the whole place is lit up but not much going on.......

As you can see though it gets popular, actually this was at 11:40pm and the line is already forming pretty fast... hmm better get in line.

By the time I'm leaving the line is going down the steps, under the entrance and...well down the road. These people are going to be waiting a while :-)

Getting my "New Year Fortune"........pay the modest sum of 100 yen and shake a small drum which has a large number of bamboo sticks inside, one will fall out and the number inscribed on it corresponds to a fortune.

My fortune, as you can see its all in Japanese, this one is classed as an "OK" fortune, meaning some good and some bad. (I'll try to put more info. later)