37 and never been kissed...

Speaking of governments, there is something very rum happening in Japan at the moment. The full story can be found here... actually no... for some reason, every website I try to go to is refusing to load... suffice to say that Koizumi has dissolved the lower house and called an unexpected election for September. There are whisperings of devolution, abdication, grand coups and much more.

There are undoubtedly scores of Nissan Micra drivers here in Japan, although to be honest I haven't really noticed them, due to the gauntlet that is walking on a Japanese pavement. What with all the old ladies on bone shakers going so slowly they have to keep jumping off to keep balance, the old men on bone shakers crashing into everything, the school boys with the seats so low they almost scrape their arses on the concrete, the school girls talking, emailing, holding umbrellas and applying their make up at the same time as riding a bike and the pedestrians that have no sense of spatial awareness and walk right in front of you, i really haven't got the time.

I am going to go to the convenience store now to buy some cutely named scran and then come back to dissolve into a twilight of beer, cars-on-the-breeze and the new series of Family Guy... over to you.