Happy Father’s Day to all dads out there. Hope you enjoy your day (especially my dad). I’ve been watching the first series of Doctor Who again recently, the episode I watched today was titled “Father’s Day”. A happy coincidence.

Certain loyal readers to my website may have noticed that I haven’t been updated much recently. The reason for this is that until recently I have had no internet access available. Now that this situation has changed more posts should be coming soon (such as stories about how difficult it is to sort out an internet connection in Japan).

I recently discovered that pita bread is known as pita pan in Japanese. The pita bread merchandising board of Japan are missing a trick not partnering with Disney.

Peter Pan Pita Pan

Would sell like hot cakes.

Now that I have a bit of time and 2 and a half weeks off work. I have finally bothered to write an about page for this site. Hoorah! It’s something that I have been promising to do for about 7 months so I hope it has been worth the wait.

On Sunday I rang my Dad for the first time since I got here. Among other things he mentioned that he had read my blog but described it as being a bit “wacky” and that he could not make head or tail of it.

Now I could take this to mean 1 of 2 things: Either he finds my style of writing down whatever rubbish that comes into my head at the time and publishing it for all to see on the net silly or he does not really know how a blog works and got confused by the random titles and jabberings littering his web browser. If the second reason is the case read this Dad! If it’s the first reason then I will cry inside.

Still the fact that he said that reminded me how I still haven’t bothered to write the About page for this blog, maybe that will help visitors to this site work out what on earth is going on. I will write it soon, I promise.

After I have written this, I am going to try to use my complicated looking washing machine for the first time, wish me luck……

As some of you reading this site may have noticed, quite often this site seems to be down. I’m not sure if it was 123-reg‘s fault or not but all my emails to them about the problem were met with shrug of the shoulders from their tech department. So I finally lost patience with them and bought a new domain name and hosting from idleserv instead. Screw you 123 reg!

I suppose it was about time I got my own hosting anyway rather than just scabbing it off a friend for nothing. So now I own 2 domains both nipponthebus.co.uk and nipponthebus.com, the co.uk one will probably expire after a year but I plan to keep the .com one. It has a more international ring to it, which is better I guess.