Tokyo and beyond, and our local rain...

As a last thing to settle my own mind, I rang the hotel at Narita Airport (Tokyo), and after listening to a very fast set of sentences in Japanese, I timidly asked if this was the hotel we were supposed to be staying at. 

Immediately, a very clear voice, (same person), in perfect English, said it was and we began our conversation.

The different 'inflections' in the Australian voice take over, and they quickly realise they are speaking to someone from another country. Then when I had to spell out my surname, doing the B for Bob thing, she very quickly fell into the rhythm of it and we got on famously!

Bottom line was, that all is OK at their hotel, and everything is functioning well, and they were looking forward to seeing us. So, having confirmed that all is well, I can now get on the plane and expect to get to the UK without any problems. As I have said, both the Sydney and Narita airports have had flights to and from, ever since the earthquake.

The bigger problem is here at home, where we haven't been able to complete all the jobs we wanted to do in the garden, because of the recent rains. It's either too wet to do anything, or too wet to plant or remove stuff, so as of tonight, we have decided we will do the most important things, and then just go.

If there is anyone out there reading this blog, please keep posted, because there will be plenty more...