I'm Never Gonna Stop The Rain By Complainin'

[anarchist_nomad]

Landed in Japan to find the weather is warm[*], the wind is fast, and the rain is heavy. Looks like I have found myself in the midst of a typhoon!

About to hop a bus to Tokai, my first visit there since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Disaster disrupted our operations at J-PARC back in March. This poor country just can't seem to get a break this year!

Meanwhile, it is worth noting that my last weekend in Oxford (for now) was absolutely fantastic! fire_kitten and cheshcat and I went to a dance performance at the Oxford Playhouse on Friday; I attended a bell ringing course on Stedman Triples on Saturday; and we did our Mabon ritual on Saturday night. All of this was fun and good... but the highlight of the weekend, without a doubt, came on Sunday when miss_amaranth and cheshcat and I spent the day at the Cotswold Wildlife Park. My beloved cheshcat had bought me a ticket to be Zookeeper For A Day, and it was an utterly fabulous! All three of us had a most awesometacular time, with penguins and tenrecs and giraffes and lions and iguanas and lemurs and more! (Oh, my!)

This amazing experience deserves a write-up of its own -- replete with pictures and full descriptions. Such will come but, for now, the above placeholder is all you get, gentle readers... as I must be off to catch the bus to Tokai!

Stay tuned!!

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[*] About 26^oC, or nearly 80^oF.

Comments

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

Wow, "Zookeeper For A Day" sounds like tremendous fun! You lucky Nomad, you!

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

*bounces happily* It absoultely was!

I am indeed, as you say, a very lucky Nomad! Particularly because I have such an amazing cheshcat, who thinks up such creative and spectacular gifts!

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

Not to harsh your buzz, but my lingering hippie Marxism impels me to add that you're also very lucky to be able to afford to give each other such gifts. (There are whispers of "class warfare" regarding economic conditions over here...)

[cjtremlett.livejournal.com]

Hope the typhoon isn't too hard on Japan!

And I can't wait to read the full write up of Zookeeper for a Day! And see pics!

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

IAWTC :)

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

:-D

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

It is pretty wet and windy right now... but there does not seem to be any danger. The storm has been downgraded and I think it is more of a nuisance than a peril at this point.

As for Zookeeper pics? Hmmmm... Maybe I should post one or two now, as teasers for the longer write-up! That sounds like a good idea...

[miss-amaranth.livejournal.com]

Eek, a typhoon? You stay safe, Love!

And yes, Sunday was fantastic. Looking forward to seeing some of the photos on a bigger screen and seeing how they came out (all 800 of them! *grin*.)

Have a good trip to Tokai. I guess you are probably en route right now?

I love you
xxxxxx
xxxxxx

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

Indeed, a typhoon! I can hear it whipping about outside my window as I type this. Trying to decide whether to go grab some dinner (getting soaked in the process) or if I should call it an early night and eat tomorrow. It is really wet 'n' windy out there!

I'm in my dorm room at Tokai now... and I may just post a couple of pictures from the weekend before I log off for the night. I've not looked through all 817 photos that you took yet, but I glanced at a few and selected a couple of nice ones that I could put up.

Love you lots, Sweetheart!!

xxxxxxxxx

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

And there I was thinking Tokai was a Hungarian sweet wine :o)

Seriously though, have a nice time.

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

Wasn't he the guy that played Sulu on Star Trek? ;-D

[dragonmamma.livejournal.com]

Really wish I could have come down last weekend, but had previous commitments. I would have loved to have gone to the playhouse dance performance. As it was I saw the Lakeland Motor Museum instead and spent the friday evening out having a meal with Tony. One cannot have everything!!!
However this weekend I will be down at FK's on my slow way to Gatwick and Menorca and I gather that Chesh will also be there. (at FireKitten's not Menorca) so I should get a pretty full update on things.Stay safe in Japan the weather is not looking happy there for some time.

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

Understood. You were missed, and I hope that you can join us again for Samhain, as we close down this turn of the Wheel of the Year and begin the next cycle. I know that circumstances have prevented you from joining at every sabbat this year, but I hope that you have found the WORK useful at the times that you have been able to attend.

For what it's worth, I should point out that I have been involved in Paganism for seventeen years... and this cycle will be only the second time that I have WORKed every sabbat with the same core group. I particularly like it this time, where we have it structured around a solid core of people... but is flexible enough to add others. I think we have only once worked with just the bare core of three, and we had double digits back in March, at Oestara. With Samhain approaching, we are already discussing plans for the next cycle, with some ideas about making the different sabbats fit together as part of a coherent WORK. Hopefully you will be able to join us for at least some of it!

[jadesfire55.livejournal.com]

Wow, Zookeeper for a Day sounds utterly Fantastic! Can't wait to hear about it.

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

Twas indeed an incredibly awesome day! *big smiles* I don't have time for a proper write-up tonight... but methinks I shall post a couple of pictures, just to bridge the gap until I can do so. I hope you will like!