I actually like Choushi, it feels, smells and looks like an old fashioned English Seaside Resort. This morning I was going to take the early train, but decided to hang around for a bit and walked down the long main street that leads to the sea. It was hot, but unlike most places in Japan,…

Went down to breakfast this morning and there was an old guy, in a nice suite, on the next table who was pretty insistent that he was going to have a conversation with me. Which was OK, but he was sat at a table with three bottles of budweiser and was insisting that I have…

Up until two years ago it was a case of travelling around in the cheapest way possible, including overnight buses (not nice!), then when people started paying for me to fly around the country it was a total luxury!! But recently I haven’t travelled too far and have been mainly using the Shinkansen, so today…

People don’t half come out with some strange excuses! Today I got an email from a teacher who was wanting me to do a workshop at her son’s school. But the reply that came back was that because the school had signed an agreement with another publisher, the Ministry of Education were banning me from…

Right I have just two days with no presentations to catch up with all my business and admin work and update the website. I did the Spiderman game but I’d forgotten how long it takes to get a game ready for the GE website, what with preparing the graphics, writing and editing the copy and…

During the kids’ shows one of the tricks I use to get the kids more hyped up is to tell them that the schools I went to the week before were so much better. It gives them a huge boost and really puts into practise the “Losing just means Try Again!” rule, I just say…