しーまブログ 2012年09月24日
芦花部校の雨の運動会
９月２２日（土）子供たちの通う芦花部小中校の
運動会が行われました。
当初１６日(日）の予定が台風１６号がきたので
この日。２２日も雨の降りしきる中でしたが、
子供たちはびしょぬれになりながら頑張りました。
子供の成長を感じる運動会。
みんな一生懸命。
長距離走なんか、長男・ジェイミーが意識朦朧
と走っていたので、私は心配で追いかけて行きましたが、
とうの本人はいつもあんな感じとケロってしてました。
リチャードも仕事があったので、午前中参加でしたが
５種目（輪投げ・水入れ・綱引き・親子種目・家族走）
に参加。パパもがんばりました。
二年後には、リオンも一年生、四人の子供が
同じ学校に通うことに。
最後に私ごと、閉会式のラジオ体操の時。
島口版・ラジオ体操が流れ出し
私はおかしくておかしくて体操どころでは・・・
「～しくりんしょ～り」なんていうんだよ。
二三人のお母さんと受けまくってたら
終わって反省会の時、一人の先生から
「ムーンさん、受け過ぎです」って言われた。
あれは、フェイントだ！陰謀だ！！
解ってたら、閉会式に参加しなかったのに。
しかし、楽しい運動会。
みな様、みんな参加の楽しい芦花部校運動会
今度是非参加してください。
報告でした。
運動会が行われました。
当初１６日(日）の予定が台風１６号がきたので
この日。２２日も雨の降りしきる中でしたが、
子供たちはびしょぬれになりながら頑張りました。
子供の成長を感じる運動会。
みんな一生懸命。
長距離走なんか、長男・ジェイミーが意識朦朧
と走っていたので、私は心配で追いかけて行きましたが、
とうの本人はいつもあんな感じとケロってしてました。
リチャードも仕事があったので、午前中参加でしたが
５種目（輪投げ・水入れ・綱引き・親子種目・家族走）
に参加。パパもがんばりました。
二年後には、リオンも一年生、四人の子供が
同じ学校に通うことに。
最後に私ごと、閉会式のラジオ体操の時。
島口版・ラジオ体操が流れ出し
私はおかしくておかしくて体操どころでは・・・
「～しくりんしょ～り」なんていうんだよ。
二三人のお母さんと受けまくってたら
終わって反省会の時、一人の先生から
「ムーンさん、受け過ぎです」って言われた。
あれは、フェイントだ！陰謀だ！！
解ってたら、閉会式に参加しなかったのに。
しかし、楽しい運動会。
みな様、みんな参加の楽しい芦花部校運動会
今度是非参加してください。
報告でした。
2012年09月07日
Hmmm!
Well, loads has been happening, but I haven't written in this blog for ages.
Trouble is, once I stop writing for a while it becomes harder to start writing again.
One reason I don't feel much inclination to write is because the things I want to write about are somewhat unpopular topics. Also, because this is in English, I don't suppose anyone much can understand enough of what I write about to gauge what I am trying to convey.
I use difficult English because in my mind the messages I make are for those who can understand. I suppose this means really that the only people who can understand what I write about are my remaining family in England, a (very) few foreigners here in Japan, and perhaps one or two people living here in Amami.
... Not forgetting of course that my ineptness with a camera means it is probably uninteresting to just read about a project I happen to be doing.
I always feel guilty when I make something or repair something because I am certain some people will be interested, but if I don't take pics then it's largely pointless to just describe in words what I am doing.
For example, I had a need for a spot-welder because I needed to repair my son's glasses. It took me a week to make the welder, and when I eventually had the courage to stop testing it with bits of metal I have and try to weld the glasses, the glasses' frame instantly vaporised, and I had to repair them a different way.
I made the spot welder out of microwave oven transformers and a whole load of stuff I had knocking about. I cut the secondary windings off and threaded about three turns of very thick wire where the fine windings used to be, so I had about 3V at a few hundred amps. One transformer wasn't enough to give a decent weld so I wired-up two transformers and connected them in-phase, and in parallel, and fed the output to some improvised brass electrodes. Well , maybe it's late, but I can take some pics and show you how I made my spot welder. If I am lucky, I can get my wife to upload the pics and put them into a format I can upload here. I hesitate because my wife is usually too busy and I just give up. Of course I could learn to upload the pics, but I can't read the (Japanese) instructions for doing this, and I need someone to teach me.
This is just a diary entry. I'm hoping that my writing this particular entry will encourage me to start writing regularly here again. Loads of interesting things have been happening, so I'm not short of things to write about.
I apologise for not writing here lately.
Trouble is, once I stop writing for a while it becomes harder to start writing again.
One reason I don't feel much inclination to write is because the things I want to write about are somewhat unpopular topics. Also, because this is in English, I don't suppose anyone much can understand enough of what I write about to gauge what I am trying to convey.
I use difficult English because in my mind the messages I make are for those who can understand. I suppose this means really that the only people who can understand what I write about are my remaining family in England, a (very) few foreigners here in Japan, and perhaps one or two people living here in Amami.
... Not forgetting of course that my ineptness with a camera means it is probably uninteresting to just read about a project I happen to be doing.
I always feel guilty when I make something or repair something because I am certain some people will be interested, but if I don't take pics then it's largely pointless to just describe in words what I am doing.
For example, I had a need for a spot-welder because I needed to repair my son's glasses. It took me a week to make the welder, and when I eventually had the courage to stop testing it with bits of metal I have and try to weld the glasses, the glasses' frame instantly vaporised, and I had to repair them a different way.
I made the spot welder out of microwave oven transformers and a whole load of stuff I had knocking about. I cut the secondary windings off and threaded about three turns of very thick wire where the fine windings used to be, so I had about 3V at a few hundred amps. One transformer wasn't enough to give a decent weld so I wired-up two transformers and connected them in-phase, and in parallel, and fed the output to some improvised brass electrodes. Well , maybe it's late, but I can take some pics and show you how I made my spot welder. If I am lucky, I can get my wife to upload the pics and put them into a format I can upload here. I hesitate because my wife is usually too busy and I just give up. Of course I could learn to upload the pics, but I can't read the (Japanese) instructions for doing this, and I need someone to teach me.
This is just a diary entry. I'm hoping that my writing this particular entry will encourage me to start writing regularly here again. Loads of interesting things have been happening, so I'm not short of things to write about.
I apologise for not writing here lately.
