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- 2008/09/04 18:13time for myself
- School began today. Now pupils are back to the school and the school i
s filled with a fresh and active atmosphere.This is the first official
day for my sons to go to the kindergarten. They have visited the kind
ergarten before, but they will spend all morning five days a week from
today on.... What a relief!Now it is quiet in the house without boys.
I hear only the sound of washing machine. And I h [続きを読む]
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- 2008/09/02 22:51positive words
- When I started my blog, I made one rule, which is...,"I don't wri
te anything negative in my blog."Any complaints, anger, madness a
nd depressing feeling should not be in my blog.Because negative things
attract negative people, negative thoughts, negative words, and negat
ive effects.That is the "law of attraction." And I really th
ink it is true.My rule has been kept well most of [続きを読む]
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- 2008/09/01 21:34international student
- Our new boarding student will arrive on Wednesday. She is a 17-year-ol
d German-Swedish, and will stay with us for this school year.We often
have a foreign guest in our house. Although we live in England, we hav
e had an English guest only once. Surprisingly, our guests are often f
rom abroad; Hungary, Korea, Japan, and Sweden this time. Our family it
self is quite international family. I am a Japanes [続きを読む]
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- 2008/08/31 04:07Physiotherapist
- It is Saturday today. This morning my husband got an appointment with
a private physiotherapist for his broken wrist. His colleague recommen
ded the therapist, saying "he is definitely the best in the Midla
nds." Since my husband lost one appointment with a NHS physiother
apist unwillingly during our trip, and he has to wait to see an orthop
aedic doctor once again before seeing a physiother [続きを読む]
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- 2008/08/29 17:52new chopping boards
- I finished making my new chopping boards.This material was a left over
from a kitchen counter top that my husband used for his workshop. He
cut the oak board to make my chopping boards. But he didn't complete t
hem, so I had to sand the boards myself.Then the boards were left in o
ur kitchen without being sanded for five months.A few days ago, I just
started working on them.Using two electric sander [続きを読む]
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- 2008/08/28 03:42from Germany
- What do you think something good in Germany? If you go to Germany, wh
at would you buy as souvenirs?Germany is good at making good tools. T
heir quality is excellent and often ecological. Furthermore prices of
German products sold in Germany are often lower than English cheaply-m
ade products sold in England. So.... I bought some PRACTICAL souvenirs
for myself.BrushWith wooden handle, this fits in my [続きを読む]
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- 2008/08/27 02:27my ordinary life
- Today was the second day after coming back home from Germany. The thre
e-week absence made incredible mess in and around our house. I cleaned
thoroughly all over the house before the trip, and nothing was happen
ing in the house during the trip... but the house seemed to be dusty w
hen we came home...So I mopped all over the house. Soon after that, lo
ts of small seeds from the birch tree nearby the h [続きを読む]
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- 2008/08/25 23:57back to England
- Now I am back to England.Three-week trip is over and now I am trying t
o adjust myself to my ordinary life.I thought I would need one day in
a bed after the trip because I was so exhausted from having driven inc
redibly long distance. Can you guess how long I have driven over this
trip between England and Germany? The total distance I drove was 2200
miles which is 3500km. Imagine leaving from Fukuoka [続きを読む]
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- 2008/08/04 18:48See you!
- Today we are leaving for Germany.We will drive across England, and tak
e a ferry to get to Holland. This is an overnight ferry brings us to D
en Haag in the early morning.Staying with our friend in Den Haag and s
pend a whole day with her and her baby, then we will be bound for Germ
any.Ten days at my husband's father.Four days at a teacher at Schros H
anbourne(sorry, not sure the spelling) Waldorf Sch [続きを読む]
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- 2008/08/02 18:28chalk and cheese
- They are as different as chalk and cheese. What I am talking about is.
..... books from Oxford University Press.↑They are cheese. Wonderful
books. Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus are my favorites. The
book on top of these dictionaries is "Practical English Usage&quo
t; written by Michael Swan. This is my best English grammar book. You
can find almost everything about British English in [続きを読む]
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- 2008/07/29 00:36real break
- We are in the middle of the summer break. Although we still have quite
a lot to do, our life is relatively quiet.Next week, we will be off t
o the continent Europe, driving across Holland to Germany. The first t
en days of the trip will be very quiet and slow, staying with my fathe
r-in-law. After that we will drive to the West to see several Anthropo
sophic architectures around. So the last half of t [続きを読む]
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- 2008/07/24 03:58camping!
- These two days are warm. I finally feel like summer although the highe
st temperature is only 20℃. In England the weather changes frequentl
y. We rarely have sunny sunshine through a day. Morning sunshine often
goes away after three hours.So...if we have a slight opportunity to e
njoy the beautiful sunshine, we should go out immediately before the g
ray clouds cover the blue sky.So we went on a campi [続きを読む]
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- 2008/07/22 03:31Germany
- It is a summer break!!Our summer break is just like Japan's. It is a s
ix-week break from the 17th July to the 3rd Sep. We are going to Germa
ny from next week Monday. Germany is my husband's country. We are goin
g to visit my father-in-law living in a small town relatively close to
Berlin. You might be surprised, but it is the first time for me to se
e my father-in-law. We have been married for four [続きを読む]
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- 2008/07/19 00:49cold
- I think something wrong with my body. Probably it is not just about th
e body but my soul.I have been always cold for these three months.Don'
t say that England is a cold country. Of course I can't deny it, for t
oday's highest temperature is 18℃. It is not summer, it is like a la
te autumn.But I am not cold only because of the weather, I know someth
ing unusual thing is happening in my body.One day I [続きを読む]
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- 2008/07/17 03:24graduation
- We had a graduation for Class Eleven today. Our school is one of the S
teiner Schools for children from age 3 to age 17. Many of children sta
rted the school from nursery/kindergarten. That means they have been t
ogether in a same class everyday for 14 years. One of the features of
the Steiner Education is that one class teacher hold the same class fo
r 8 years from Class 1 through Class 8. The gradua [続きを読む]
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- 2008/07/15 03:00The Second Life
- Women have two lives in one life.It might sound something strange for
you, but I feel it from my life experience.My second life started when
I became a mother."Mother" and "non-mother" are d
ifferent. After a woman gave a birth to a baby, she became a different
person. Having a baby would change the mother's heart and the way of
looking at the world. If you are a mother, you wou [続きを読む]
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- 2008/07/13 03:07Oven-roasted tomatoes
- An organic grocery shop in our town brings their old vegetables and fr
uits to our school. They are bit too old to sell but many of them are
still good enough to eat. So basket-full of vege/fruits are left on ou
r campus so that anybody can pick what they want. The vege/fruits nobo
dy wanted go to the compost.The shop sells locally grown vegetables th
at are quite expensive. I bought THREE apples at t [続きを読む]
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- 2008/07/11 22:32writing English
- My English writing skill is not really good as you see on this blog.Ge
nerally it is easier to understand English than expressing yourself in
English. When I read an English article, a book, or listen to a lectu
re in English, I can understand. But it is not that easy to explain wh
at I have just read or listened. So one of my recent training of writi
ng English is following:1. Read a paragraph. I oft [続きを読む]
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- 2008/07/11 06:03studying English
- I am finished reading John Steinbeck's "Of mice and man."Sin
ce I decided to take English language GCSE exam, I keep trying to read
English literature. It is not very fun for me to read pure literature
, but I can not avoid studying English any longer.I tell you....I have
NEVER liked studying English since I started learning English when I
was twelve.Of course I had to study some English a [続きを読む]
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- 2008/07/06 03:15movie nights
- My husband has had an operation on his broken wrist this Monday. Since
my husband should not move much to heal his wound, he needs to sit do
wn quietly without much movement.The doctor's recommendation was a &qu
ot;couch potato."Both I and my husband don't like watching TV. We
don't even have a TV set in our house.Soon my husband got extremely b
ored from doing nothing.So we are having some movi [続きを読む]
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- 2008/07/02 05:02NHS
- NHS "National Health Service" is English public health servi
ce. Thanks for NHS, we can have medical services for free. I think it
is great that even international students can be benefit from this sys
tem. If you stay in England longer than six months, you don't have to
pay for NHS medical treatments, which is great.But the service is poor
. As I wrote about the scheduling of my husband's [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/30 04:32crazy days...
- Last two weeks were crazy and depressing.First, my husband broke down
from overwork. He just couldn't move at all. That forced him to stay a
t home off from work for three daysSecond, he broke his wrist bone on
the next week....He is workaholic. Even if he was not, generally this
time of the year is crazily busy for all the teachers to finish up the
school year, write reports and prepare for the su [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/15 19:28Blooming!
- Now various flowers are blooming and are adding colours in our little
court yard.Confrey. This weed-like plant grows everywhere and becomes
good natural fertilizer. Also this can be used to make cosmetics and n
atural remedies as it has healing effects for skin and circulation.Thy
me. This is growing as a border in my plant bed. It has a good smell a
nd can add nice taste to dishes. Foxglove. This is [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/12 22:30bamboo cloth
- Do you know there are yarns made from bamboo fibre?These are the bamb
oo yarns. They are so soft and smooth. I imagine this yarn would be gr
eat to knit a summer jumper.But....I bought these yarns to knit "
bamboo cloths."One of my friends told me how well the "bambo
o cloth" works for washing up. You can buy it at a supermarket, a
nd it is reasonable. I tried it, and now I love it! [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/11 04:12Twine bag
- Today I completed my new bag. The photo above is the bag. This is croc
heted with twine, is good size to contain A4 files. I like this braide
d handle. Isn't it nice??The twine bag I made before was "stole
n" by my son. That was just his size and he loved it. So I made t
his for myself.Even though he likes this new bag .....,(↓) I won't
give this up this time!!! This is MINE!! ←This is a [続きを読む]
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