Neil Hopcroft

Met up with jamese and Damian last night for Mirage at Head Power – but we went for some food first at a ‘private dining restaurant’, chosen by Tomako, Damians girlfriend. We wandered apparently lost through Kabukicho until suddenly we arrived at a big steel door, which opened to let us into a basement where […]

Back at work, now, and its almost like I never went away. Back into the fights about whos responsibility this thing is, why that thing hasn’t happened yet, who should make the next move on the other thing. The jetlag is catching up with me now, though. Only two hours sleep last night, then a […]

This has made me speechless…I can’t believe I inhabit the same internet as these people. (though, it’ll probably be appreciated more by those who understand Japanese – turning on the subtitles helps but for me that is only enough to tell me there are more jokes in there that, right now, there is no way […]

Another first – this time reading a real book in less than 24 hours. I’ve never been a particularly prolific reader, given the way the words don’t really make much sense and swim around on the page, and that by the time I’ve got to the end of a sentence I’ve forgotten where it started. […]

With my usual exquisite planning skills I landed in Tokyo on the hottest day since records began – it is traditionally the hottest day of the year, complete with a ceremony involving burning herbs in a pot on your head. Fortunately they didn’t require that as part of the entry conditions. Indeed, there weren’t even […]

It seems i cant use the internet. The 9pm train i’m catching now runs on sundays but not mondays. Might be an interesting journey home…

*phew* made it onto train to tonbridge, with no thanks to the dartford line for running a timetable based on a drunkards walk. Next: packing Time til flight: 15 hours

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Well, kinda, the latest is that I’m heading back out to Tokyo on Tuesday. I’ll be in Cambridge tomorrow afternoon – if anyone is about and would like to meet up, give me a call or leave a comment here (but be aware that my email comments, while receivable by mobile phone, are being unreliable […]

This: You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission in life is not already topreserve the English tongue, it should be.Congratulations and thank you! How grammatically sound are you? brought to you by Quizilla …should never have happened, there must be something wrong with it.