Jackie's Japan Journal

Life with cats is interesting, frustrating and at times, exhausting. Cats have no sense of time or privacy, they want to do what they want ...

My summer holiday is almost over.  Didn't do much, just relaxed at home, far too hot to go out too much!  But did manage a couple of out...

I know this is the rainy season and I know that we get heavy rain but yesterday was crazy.  Thunder storms and torrential rain for a long t...

The rainy season has well and truly started.  The rainy season in this area is usually in the middle of June but this year it has been lat...

Today was my one year check up since my cancer diagnosis. The appointment went okay, just lots of waiting around.  First was the mammogram....

Friday would of been Hisao's 58th birthday.  It's hard to think of him as being 58! I often wonder what he would be doing if he wer...

Every year while it is still cool I tell myself that I will do better in the summer. I determine not to be defeated by the weather.  That I...