A Country File

`ello me luvvers well the 21st of July always has special meaning for me as it was on this day that I first arrived in Japan.
So today marks 5 years since I landed into a steamy cicada filled world..well how times have a changed, now here i sit in a sodden peaceful world (all cicadas silent, presumed drowned) .

As often has been the case i really wasn't expecting to be here this long, and as so often is the case now that I am here I cant think of what I would do if I left...

I certainly wasnt expecting to be now living in the mountains of Hiroshima-ken, joint owner of an old farm, shortly to be married to the woman who (romantically enough) was the first person I met in Hiroshima those 5 years ago.

Which surely just goes to show that we can never relly know what will become of us...which is a good thing otherwise our lives would be that little less exciting ...