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Monday, March 23, 2009

清水公園、千葉県  Shimizu Park, Chiba


北千葉県に東武野田線で清水公園が有る。桜を見たかったがまだ早すぎた. とにかく、今朝早く起きて、午前7時半に家を出かけた。公園に9時に着いた。清水公園に大きな花庭が有る。今桜がまだ出ないですけど別のきれいな花が有る。

桜はまだ咲いていないけれど、別のきれいな花が咲いている。

もっと写真が左リンクに。





Shimizu Park is in northern Chiba, via the Tobu Noda line. I had wanted to see cherry blossom today, but I was still too early. Anyway, I got up early and left the house by 7:30. I got to the park at 9am. Within Shimizu Park there is a big flower garden. Although the cherry blossom isn't out yet, there are many other beautiful flowers in bloom.

More photos at the link to the left.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

It's been a long time!

Aaaggghhh!

It's been a long time again since my last post! The last few weeks have been very busy with work and being a bit run down, and I just haven't had a chance to add to the blog or indeed anything else! Today, luckily I didn't get called out to cover anyone, so at last I have some time to catch up with myself!

Even though I haven't been writing on the blog, I am still studying. Last week, I bought 3 books to add to my frighteningly growing Japanese library - a bilingual cookery book, a Level 3 grammar book (because I still don't feel confident in my grammar) and a Level 2 kanji and reading book. There's no way that I'm going to be able to take Level 2 this year, I will probably re-take Level 3 in December and try and get a better score - but I want to keep studying and improving past this level.

Today is a beautiful day! Recently it's been raining, windy and cold, but today it's a beautiful sunny day! I even got a chance to sit for a while on my balcony, for the 2nd time this year! It looks from the weather forecast this week that Spring might be on its way - supposedly the daytime temperature this week should hover around the 14C mark, fingers crossed eh!