Sorry-ology

  Spring in Japan is the most dreadful season to me. I have been suffering from serious hay fever since I started living in the country. If the symptoms are combined with a cold, a situation that usually occurs, it simply turns into an unescapable hell in my case. Whenever I have a cold, I will develop a persistent cough that might last as long as 3 weeks. A cold induced by hay fever, as pollen is also full of germs, makes me sick of life, especially the spring break is usually the longest vacation I can have in a year when kids still go to school and kindergarten regularly and I can finally work on research. However, coughs just prevent everything from happening.  What is worse this year is that, there has been an unbelievable shortage of cough medicine across Tokyo since last year due to the spread of COVID and influenza. Last November, I visited three pharmacies to finally get some cough pills, but it was still a substitute medicine and was only half of the amount that was ...

I purchased eyeball marshmallows for Halloween 2022. Marshmallows are not common sweet given to children at home; therefore, it’s quite an effort to consume them.  The second day after Halloween, T had a marshmallow toast for breakfast then

A chef friend had a post about a new item on the menu in her café: toad in the hole, a traditional pub food in England. That gave inspiration to a wife who has to think of three meals to cook every day. I didn’t drink at all and was only a rare customer to pubs when I was in England. Even when I went to pubs, among friends, I was notorious for ordering hot tea. Eating out was a rare option because of cost and feeling timid  before new things. Toad in the hole, a typical English dish, was alien to me until this time I made it myself in Japan and almost thirteen years after I left England. Since the authentic taste was unknown to me, I could not give a fair judgment on the quality of my own cooking. However, the fully grown Yorkshire puddings was a satisfying seven to see. Somehow I came to know more about English life after I left there.