November 2006
(25th November 2006)
To compensate for my sluggishness yesterday, today I have walked and walked and walked around Tokyo. I began by getting my hair cut by the charming and - it turns out - talented Chie at Watanabe hair, where the shampoo girl is not just a shampoo girl but delivers an unexpected and pleasant head and neck message too. Emerging at 11 into bright sunshine ...
(24th November 2006)
It is odd, to wake up from a red-eye and valium-exacerbated overlong afternoon nap in a nice comfortable bed to the sound of a loudspeaker saying first something incomprehensible then 'this is a fire drill. please use the stairs. please don't use the lifts' and, still half-asleep and having no idea what to do nor any way to find out, to pull on some clothes, ...
(22nd November 2006)
At the part of the plant where dried sludge is sent off to be mixed with leaves and made into fertiliser, I said to Toey, "there's an expression in English - 'as happy as a pig in shit.'" Then I pointed to the dog version.
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(22nd November 2006)
Today I visited one of only two sewage works in Bangkok, city of 6 million people. It is rather manual, compared to others I have visited.This woman was responsible for ladling alum and lime into bubbling brown sewage (bubbling beneath that hole). I know she was a woman because I stared at her chest.The ...