Ooo! Big Earthquake! I’ve been spending half the year, or sometimes more, in Japan for about 7 years now and in that time I’ve had quite a few earthquakes. To be honest most of them are like “oo, an earthquake” and it’s all quite exciting and passes after a bit. But today’s started out like…

I was definitely right to get away from Japan to work on the CD! This week I’ve spent nearly all day on the phone, doing emails or generally sorting out business type stuff, without getting anything done on the CDs!! Argh!! There have also been a few problems on the forum, some people just don’t…

I always look forward to Fukuoka events as the teachers here are probably the most genki and inventive in the country! Mind you today was in a building way out of the usual places so it was a different crowd in. It was also snowing outside! Anyway I started off with Good Morning and Easter,…

I got up early this morning and headed off to the Maruzen presentation. I got things set up and hung around to watch one of the other publisher’s presentations. Oh dear. This is the culture shock again, but the teachers just looked dead, there weren’t half as many as expected, they weren’t getting really simply…

It was raining today. Plus jet lag ( I’ve never arrived back here in the morning, it’s usually the evening). Plus guys at the station trying to talk to me in English, which I had no idea at all what they were saying and they refused to speak Japanese. Plus people barging by in the…

It was probably a bit optimistic hoping to get the new album done for this week! The actual mixes of the songs were done really quickly as most of the tracks hardly needed any changes from what I did in Spain, so the music is all fine. But there is so much new stuff in…