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Month: October 2017

Dan’s First Kyudo Competition

Dan recently entered his first Kyudo competition. Kyudo is a form of Japanese archery, and a new love of ours! It is focused, calming and about having great form and a calm mind. If you show great form and hit the target, you have been successful. As a Japanese art form, Kyudo requires discipline and…

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The Japanese Grand Prix 2017

It’s Hammer Time! On the weekend of 6-8th October 2017, we realised a wish and attended the Japanese formula one at the legendary Suzuka circuit, near Nagoya. I had gifted Dan the experience (being the excellent gift giver I am, the perfect gift, wins all round for me and him!) and so I was a…

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Running Around

Dan and I are training for a half-marathon. This feels like a pretty big deal, because we have only recently decided we quite like running and have taken on no run anywhere near as big. Yet, we are not the type to chill out and take it too easy, so we gave ourselves the reasonable…

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New Beach-front Cafe in Ayaragi!

Our local area is in the process of having a face-lift. It used to be an area of social housing, but in the past ten years big changes have taken place there. The social housing lives on amongst the new builds of big family homes. We arrived nearing the end of the changes, as our…

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