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	<title>adekun's japan blog</title>
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	<description>Enjoying the sights, sounds and smells of first-time parenthood. Progress on the organic vegetable garden and other ramblings of a gaijin in Japan's least populous prefecture.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Check at sixteen weeks</title>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/blog/check-at-sixteen-weeks</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adekun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I missed out going as I had to work. Ritsue took Kento and his runny nose along to the clinic. This gave the nurses an excuse to fuss over him. Four of them looked on as he lay next to his mother. Apparently the baby was waving a lot.
In a change of position, ｔhe local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another cooked card</title>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/blog/another-cooked-card</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adekun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I can add a second whinge today. As I was publishing the last post some patterns appeared on the screen. Having to reboot, the only thing to reappear was a blank screen. I just popped the previous faulty card in, which at least brings up a garbled Dell logo. Seems as though the replacement graphics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008 Summer Olympics</title>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/blog/2008-summer-olympics</link>
		<comments>http://www.adekun.com/blog/2008-summer-olympics#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adekun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While across the globe the world watches the Beijing* 2008 Summer Olympics, here in Japan it&#8217;s the Peking Olympics. In this second guise the viewer gets to see Team Japan take on the world&#8217;s top athletes along with prejudiced commentary.
Fortunately those interested in watching the rest of the games (those events in which Japan is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bum Tomato</title>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/garden/bum-tomato</link>
		<comments>http://www.adekun.com/garden/bum-tomato#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adekun</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sweet potatoes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tomatoes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[weather]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday we had a heavy downpour which is worth noting for my own benefit. With the ground being damp the crows returned to dig up more peanuts. Not much going on elsewhere in the garden. The unruly sweet potato vines should be clipped; there&#8217;s a chance they will turn out all vine and no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eneloop</title>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/blog/eneloop</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adekun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many surprises when coming to live in Japan was lack in usage of rechargeable batteries. I expected in the land of high-technology it would be a given. I gather the people here have chargers for their mobile phones and HDV camcorders; if standard batteries are needed then its disposables all the way.
Every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls day out in Sakaiminato</title>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/blog/girls-day-out-in-sakaiminato</link>
		<comments>http://www.adekun.com/blog/girls-day-out-in-sakaiminato#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adekun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the girls outnumber the boys I thought the title fitting. They were in charge too. Along with most of the Yoshihara and Gion families, we took the train to Sakaiminato. Both carriages were full of tourists with their cameras, no doubt from neighbouring prefectures. Perhaps a majority were those returning from the big cities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get off my nuts</title>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/garden/get-off-my-nuts</link>
		<comments>http://www.adekun.com/garden/get-off-my-nuts#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adekun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some sort of netting has got to be a sound investment. The crows, having finished off the corn have recently returned from a spell further afield. They have begun digging up the groundnuts. Although harvest time a lot further off than a week, the nuts must still be appealing. As before, the evidence is strewn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garden imp</title>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/blog/garden-imp</link>
		<comments>http://www.adekun.com/blog/garden-imp#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adekun</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[onions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to post some photos of Kento taken before the summer vegetables went in. He&#8217;s quite adept at sticking on a pair of shoes and going for an amble. 
We are now down to the last bunch of white onions. If they were bigger we could have looked forward to onion soup. Below, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Milking the cash cow</title>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/blog/milking-the-cash-cow</link>
		<comments>http://www.adekun.com/blog/milking-the-cash-cow#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adekun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months back there was a report on the cash crisis. An American mother was in tears complaining milk being at the same price as gasoline? Although disparate in the UK, it made me recall dairy farmers protesting against their diminishing share of the end retail price.
I can understand cost increases being passed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Hino Bridge</title>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/japan/tottori/old-hino-bridge</link>
		<comments>http://www.adekun.com/japan/tottori/old-hino-bridge#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adekun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A relatively long standing feature of Yonago is the Old Hino Bridge. Completed in 1929, the bowstring truss bridge was damaged in the 2000 Western Tottori Earthquake and subsequently closed. Recently reopened to pedestrians and cyclists (incl. those motorised?), the bridge’s six arches offer a calmer crossing over the Hino River (日野川); with views of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rhubarb departed</title>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/garden/food/rhubarb-departed</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adekun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since late summer last year I’ve been nurturing two dozen rhubarb seeds. The first twelve were sown directly with about a third germinating. They didn’t flourish. The remainder was put into a module tray in the spring. Again only about a third made it to the surface, of which two developed into something worth transplanting. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High summer garden</title>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/garden/high-summer-garden</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adekun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Along the back from the left:
Empty space where the spuds were
Asparagus
Basil
Peas

Middle and front:
Sweet Potatoes
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Peppers &#38; aubergines
Peas
Okra
Recently vacated kabocha and watermelon



It really looks dry out there. I’ve barely been out with either the hose or watering can. The sweet potatoes are thriving nonetheless. Expect the cucumber to have finished. Perhaps earlier with a bit more watering [...]]]></description>
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