Life is messy, pleasantly imperfect. Milk goes sour. Shoe laces come undone. Objects are forgotten. Luggage is lost (thanks FinnAir). Packages don’t turn up (thanks DHL, …



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My pet hate in Japan is the little stickers that are applied to your purchases if you decline to to put the goods in a …
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You are out and about and your phone runs out of power – what are your options? Something you see a lot in Asia but not …
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Scars as evidence of past activities. Upper photo from legs of young female skater at EDIT skate park (Experimental Development Inner-City Tokyo) in Shinjuku, lower …
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Always interested to see what people take as evidence of being somewhere, or doing something (for me its sometimes this web site). A number of the …
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Txting from the summit of Mt Fuji. Despite, or perhaps because of being the tallest mountain in Japan – 3776 meters, someone decided to put base …
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Scars as evidence of past activities – legs of young female skater at EDIT skate park (Experimental Development Inner-City Tokyo) in Shinjuku.
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Scars related to activities – yours truly lava scree running down Mt Fuji.
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