There's a storm brewing and it's heading our way...

Ok, you should really check out this photo of Typhoon Mawar (below) with Tropical Cyclone Guchol on the right in this satellite image. Both storms are far out in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, some 900 kilometers from Tokyo. They are traveling in parallel with each other, both headed roughly northwest at comparable speeds. Mawar, however, will strike mainland Japan on its projected course, and will have built to a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of over 320 kilometers per hour (200 miles per hour) as it strikes shore around Thursday. Guchol, however, will never come close to shore if current projections are correct, and remain a substantially weaker system. So it looks like Mawar could be a biggie... I presume we will be allowed go home early if it does hit which is the norm here I think for extreme weather conditions. Osaka might not get it that badly though due to it being nestled in a nice natural harbour...

On a brighter note, I got permission to take summer holidays even though I wasn't entitled to them as my 6 months is not quite up yet!!!! A whopping 3 whole days!!! As you can see, I got quite excited about the whole thing... Maybe there is a god after all...

As well as that we were asked if we wanted to go out to the big guys house for late lunch/dinner in September so being the good employee that I am, I said I would. It's a fab house so I am going to take my camera with me and take some photos, including the 3 Picassos that adorn his walls..yes, 3 original by Pablo himself, the real McCoy and they are damn good too.

So until next time, LONG MAY YOU RUN!!!!!

This week I have mostly been eating chicken