I’m writing this on New Years Day, so “Happy New Year”! Now it’s time to look back on 2004 and see what’s in store for 2005… Well the big plan for 2004 was to launch DVDs of all the Genki English themes. But what a flop! I figured a “virtual” version of my lessons would…

I’m back in Osaka again for the 3rd time in 3 weeks! Today was a private show and workshop organised by a teacher who came to see one of the shows in June and wanted to organise one in her town. Just like the show in June, she also asked for a “Mini Genki” show…

I bumped into Tom Merner a few weeks ago and he told me that he had decided to put my presentation on first thing on Sunday as I was the only person who could get everyone awake!! Which upon seeing a room full of partially hung over, and generally very tired looking faces seemed to…

Basically everything at the top of my “To Do” list is at the moment is music work! Which is quite nice. The great thing is that I can just play through whatever types of stuff I want and I can pretty much use anything. If it’s happy and bright it’ll go on the new phonics…

This is my fourth time to Ishikawa ( the second this year) but my first to the Noto Peninsula, and it is nice to be back in the fresh air! I pretty much knew that today would go well as the teacher who had organised it was totally on the ball. Of course the real…

Well, not really Hallowe’en, but it was the Nagoya leg of the Nellie’s Bookstore tour. And that was really good. The room filled to capacity when my presentation started and everyone had a great time with the Phonics CD ( showing off all the styles seems to work well, especially the James Brown, Fatboy Slim…