Since Cherie and Jill asked, I wrote this up yesterday to add to a future blog, but Pete just emailed me the Official Version, so here’s Sinead Cavanagh’s Famous Nut Roast recipe, as enjoyed by many satisfied musicians who’ve darkened the doors of the O’Neill/Cavanagh residence over the past years…
CASHEW NUT ROAST WITH APRICOT STUFFING […]

Hola. I went over to Ayse’s today to go to her monk friend’s house and make mochi. She teaches him german because his daughter has married a german man and moved to Cologne. He was lovely, as was his wife, daughters and son, brother, brothers’ son and the various others who were at the house […]

My mum has been over visiting us in Kyoto for the last two weeks. She arrived in Tokyo on December 12th, I got the Shinkansen (bullet train) down to see her, we stayed in a Japanese style hotel called a Ryokan in an old quiet neighbourhood in Asakusa, Tokyo which was lovely. We slept in […]

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!!
Here are some photo’s from my birthday yesterday and Christmas tonight.
I had a lovely birthday yesterday! I got some deadly presents, had nice food and sang karaoke!

We’re off to bed now after a lovely evening of eating delicious nut roast with carmalised potatoes and rice pudding with cherry sauce and loads of chocolates.. […]

It’s December 24th, Icelandic Christmas Day (along with loads of European Lutheran countries, although it doesn’t appear to count in Iceland until 6pm) and I’m on the sofa, stranded while waiting for the freshly mopped floor to dry, so I thought I may as well write a jums post. Hope everyone reading is having nice […]

Giita’s off living the high life in the country somewhere with Thorgunna, so I’m living it up at home. I made dinner with slightly more garlic than usual, I’m drinking one can of Guinness and making a nerdy list of songs to post on the internet. Amazing. Like being on a motorbike with the wind […]

Hi all. Giita’s away living it up in Tokyo with her mum, leaving me on my own in Kyoto with tons of schoolwork to do. As a result this’ll be mercifully shorter than the previous post. I’ve two essays to hand in on Monday - our final day of school before Christmas other than the […]

I was invited to a Nabe Party on Friday night in my pal Miki’s flat. This is male Miki - Miki-kun as opposed to female Miki - Miki-chan - who plays in Rune with me. A nabe is a big pot into which broth goes first, then a load of ingredients are tossed in. In […]

Christmas is around the corner and it’s getting a little bit colder here in Kyoto. I’ve been out photographin the last red leaves around Kyoto & here are some of the pictures. The first three photos were taken in the grounds of Asahi Oyamazaki Villa Museum of art, which is owned by the Asahi family. […]

Hola. Tuesday’s test wasn’t the most fun I’ve had since coming here. Wasn’t much fun at all, other than the kanji bit which I flew through. I didn’t leave enough time for the academic essay based on the graph about the dwindling number of chizzlers here, but then again I don’t have the vocabulary to […]