- Aug 11
- 4 min
Babies 赤ちゃん
2023 年 8 月 11 日 Babies. They pee, they fart, they make atrocious smells and scream....and they take over your life.........but one little...
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- Aug 4
- 5 min
Margaret マーガレット
2023 年 8 月 4 日 Sometimes I feel that our lives are like planets orbiting through space☄️ Other planets come near us and pass by, never...
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- Jul 28
- 4 min
The Lady in Grey
２０２３年7月28日 Hello! I am the Lady in Grey from next door, and I have come to say hello to Nigel. It is difficult to translate my name into...
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- Jul 21
- 7 min
🍨 + Physics ぶつりがく
2023 年7 月 21日 An advertising agency contacted me recently. Could I record this English text? It was for Lufthansa, who were doing a...
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- Jul 14
- 6 min
Einhard アインハルト
2023 年7月14日 Here is a picture of four walkers cavorting around in a ..........church? 🤔.......No, hang on, we don't do things like that....
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- Jul 7
- 7 min
Snails and things....カタツムリと物
2023 年 7 月 7 日 This week some of you received an email saying that Nigel had published a new post. But when you clicked to see more there...
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- Jun 30
- 5 min
Blue 青
🔵 Blue on blue. The pen, the beer, ........the memory......ペン、ビル、懐かし... To be honest, I was not very impressed with the HELLES Bavarian...
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- Jun 22
- 6 min
Shade 陰 Ombra (mai fù)
2023年6月22日 No. I am not turning into a train nerd. However, whilst looking for my platform at Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof last Sunday...
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- Jun 15
- 8 min
Films, films.....映画! 映画!
2023 年 6 月 15 日 It's 9.30 pm on Monday evening. This morning I said goodbye to my last passenger, a lecturer at the Tokyo University of...
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- Jun 8
- 6 min
Opinion いけん
2023 年 6 月 8 日 "Why are you learning Japanese?" is one of the common questions I get asked. Well, it's simple really. I like making new...
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- Jun 1
- 7 min
A Table by the Window 窓際のテーブル
2023 年 6 月 1 日 (This week I am hosting Svitlana Borzenko's blog. Svitlana has been living in exile in Frankfurt since early last year. It...
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- May 25
- 4 min
Where is the melody? メロディーはどこにある?
2023年5月25日 The other day I was in the kitchen and this suddenly reached my ears on the radio.....Schubert's Impromptu Nr.3 Op. 90. - an...
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- May 19
- 6 min
.............🥛
2023年5月19日 Fancy a glass of cool milk on a hot day? Maybe flavoured with banana or strawberry? I've been walking in the Rhine valley and...
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- May 12
- 7 min
First Class グリーン車
2023 年 5 月 12 日 Last Saturday, 6th May, was one of the first gloriously warm late spring days in Hessen. 先週の土曜日、5月6日はヘッセン州で最初の暖かい春の日の一つでし...
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- May 5
- 4 min
Double Dutch (2) ダブルダッチ
2023 年 5 月 5 日 Yesterday 昨 (back in Langenランゲンで): It was too much : out of my kitchen window I could see a throng of customers outside...
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- May 1
- 5 min
Double Dutch ダブルダッチ
2023 年 5 月 1 日 Last week I lost my bicycle. 前週, 自転車をくしてしまいました. "How the did you manage that?" I can hear you say. The trouble is that I...
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- Apr 28
- 2 min
Of Kings and things....国王
2023 年 4 月 28 日 A mischievous musician has just given me a tin of shortbread....delicious, except that I had to adapt the design on the...
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- Apr 20
- 5 min
Heavens 天
2023 年 4 月 21 日 Guten Morgen. Wie kann ich Ihnen helfen? Good Morning. How can I help you? This post is going to be difficult to put into...
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- Apr 14
- 4 min
Deep Dive 潜水
2023 年 4 月 14 日 I have a new friend. 新しい友達がいます......She has always been very nervous and shy, but today she came down off the wall and...
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- Apr 7
- 5 min
Saturday Ritual 土曜日の習慣
2023 年 4 月 8 日 I push on the solid, generous brushed steel handle of the glass door and enter. A flood of warmth, laced with the homely...
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