Well, it’s not doing it now, but from about 19:00 last night until 10 minutes ago, its been tipping it down here.
Temperature has come down a bit as well, only 23 degrees (C) today! Got summer type temperature for the UK, but more like a mid-May temperature in this part of the world.

It’s certainly very different to the weather this time one year ago! (Let me see, about this time last year, I was down in Toi with the in-laws, on a “Welcome to Japan” holiday… sweating like a horrible sweaty thing!).

Yesterday was kinda cool. Yuko’s mum and dad came over to visit, as they Yuko’s mum wanted to return her kimono (and also a box full of Yuko’s football shirts from World Cup 2002!). Yuko however, made me cook Roast Chicken for them, so thank goodness it wasn’t as hot as it would normally be at this time of year.

Star Wars Episode 4 was on Japanese TV last night, so we thought we’d watch it with Japanese dubbing. Actually, I did laugh during the opening. Quite often on Japanese TV, they’ll stick up the main Cast list in both katakana script and romaji, and usually they dispense with the end credits for Western films (since not many people can read them). How I chuckled to see Obi-Wan Kenobi was acted by a chap called “Arec Guiness”. Me, childish, yep!
For some other reason they’d edited parts of the film as well. The sequence when Beru calls over to Luke to make sure the droids can speak “Botchi” disappeared. So did the horrible whining of Luke, “But I was going to Toshi station to pick up some Power Convertors”. Hell, I worried myself when I actually noticing these bits missing as well. Feck, I’m a geek!
What was fun, was seeing how much of the Japanese I could actually understand. It helped a lot knowing what they were saying anyway in English.