English Masa Blog

Regular readers of this blog may be familiar with the story of shouchuchan. My poorly houseplant. I tried a variety of things to remedy the situation, only to find out that (more…)

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I swore to myself that I would never jump aboard the Edo Harumi bandwagon, so I apologize to myself for the title.

Recently, last week in fact, I started jogging in the mornings. I wake up between (more…)

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The title of this post refers to a kind of game or TV program in which a murder occurs and the culprit is not found out until right at the end.

The TV program (or sometimes film) usually starts with the discovery of a body, maybe weapon and some clues. Then a detective will spend the program interviewing people, discovering more clues and finally (more…)

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I have finally added another update to the English Kitchen site. I have been wanting to do something about the space on the right-hand side and I finally came up with (what I think is) a good solution.

There is now various content on each of the pages that all link together into one dish. There are different categories like ingredients, cooking methods etc…

I don’t really want to say too much else, I want people to try it and see if it is intuitive or not. Anyway, if you go to any of the English Kitchen pages, there should be some new content on the right.

Enjoy, and let me know any comments/ complaints/ improvements etc

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For a change, I drove to the place I was teaching at today. I often drive places but not to where I work. For some reason as I was driving today, I noticed a lot of cars with (more…)

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From about the middle of last year, we wanted to get more greenery in and around our house.

We started off with a few houseplants. Got a couple of outdoor plants for around the entrance. Then, we (more…)

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I hadn’t cooked sweetcorn at home for a long time before today. As is probably the case with most other people, I usually enjoy sweetcorn on the BBQ or at Yakiniku.

However, walking around the supermarket the other day, I found some (more…)

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Just a quick note to say that I have updated the photos on the site. If you have been to an English Kitchen recently, please have a look. You might be on there somewhere!

You can find the page here

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I’m not sure if this is a particularly useful English phrase, but I looked up about this the other day (thank you Aya) so I thought I would write down my findings here.

For anyone who doesn’t know the meaning of the phrase, (more…)

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As people may or may not know, my plant, Shouchuchan, has been having a few problems recently. It all started a few weeks ago when we repotted him. He was thriving before the repot but (more…)

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