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This post is aimed at my friend Ev who is very kindly sending me a copy of the Fortean Times with the clown article. Take a look at this link, which is full of amusing drawings of bicycles. I particularly like the bike with shoe wheels.

On the Fortean note, I have just received an email alerting me to the new issue which features an article on Asian horror. I have a friend doing a film-making course in Tokyo who is specialising in Asian Horror archetypes so she'd be very interested in this. Dammit. It looks like I may have to part with the £45 of international subscription for FT. I have been missing it quite a lot, especially as my friend B has been having a (very valid) rant in the letters page.

In other news the Xmas trip back to England may be postponed until March, as the lovely Polly will be getting married and I promised a long time ago that I would be there. England will be warmer than Ina then as well.
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My former colleague, Ev, from my bookselling days, contacted me a few days ago to request some pictures of my bike and to ask about cycling in Japan. Now, I knew Ev was into cycling from perusing his Myspace site, though I no idea just how much. Enough that he has a blog dedicated to his cycling adventures. You can check out Ev's cycling blog by clicking here. I particularly like the header "Ride like the wind, be home for tea" and that his tag cloud includes such things as "A36", "Black Dog" and "Dead Maid's Junction".

Anyway, some words on cycling in Japan. )

You can check out pictures of my bike at my Flickr page.

In other blogging and bookselling news I received a birthday card today from Tim, Philippa and Sam in York. For those of you who don't know them, they own The Little Apple Bookshop on High Petergate, where I worked for a year or two during and after my degree. Philippa contacted me a short while ago to point out that The Little Apple is the "Bookshop in Residence" at the Arvon Friends website. This is particularly cool as I went on a few writing courses at the Ted Hughes Arvon centre in Lumb Bank and always had a rewarding and productive time there, working with writers and poets such as Helen Dunmore, Roselle Angwin and Mario Petrucci. I would go more often but they are quite pricey... and now on the other side of the world. Anyway, so take a look at the blog as Philippa has some very interesting stuff to say about life as an independent bookseller - something increasingly more rare and precious as the monsters that are Wa*kerstones (Ev's word - and apologies to friends who work for them) and Amazon grow ever more fat.

Further to my earlier post I'm feeling a lot better and had a good Japanese lesson. I freaked out the cashier in Tsutaya this morning by rambling at her about having the wrong change, only to find she'd given it to me moments earlier...

To finish, here's a picture of Joe. I took him to get his bike and then bought him birthday Baskin Robbins ('coz today is his birthday).


Triple Chocolate and Rocky Road with chocolate sauce and a glace cherry.

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