Just when I thought spring was coming...

The last week or so it has become warmer and the need for a coat going to work is now obsolete. Saturday was spent walking around Shinsaibashi with PJ and PC, showing them the general area, where all the Tiffany, Gucci, Salvatore Ferrungi, Bulgari, Tag Haur, Clinique shops were. You know, just in case they wanted to splurge out a year's salary on a gaudy piece of jewelry. T-shirt and a pair of jeans were all that were required in the pleasant spring air. Saturday night was spent dining in a fantastic Malaysian restaurant to bid Tim farewell as he heads back to London to bigger and better things and a normal working week...with all the perks that go with a normal job. I will miss Tim. He is a great chap, and chap he is. I wish him well in his new position with one of the better law firms in London. Toodle pip ol' boy!!
After dinner we headed back to the 'burbs and a session of Karaoke. Not my cup of tea really but I stayed for a bit, belted out a few tunes. Sent out the love to people of the world and duly went home sober as a judge. Sunday was spent resting, cleaning my apartment, getting food and generally chilling out. I needed a bit of R&R. Actually, I went to Osaka-jo in the morning for a bit of birding. LJ, I decided to take some photos of the those "lovely thrushes", just for you...I hope you like them :) A nice selection of Eye-browed, Brown and Dusky thrush (photos in that order).

So on Tuesday it was pissing rain on and we had one of the biggest lightening storms surrounding Osaka, with lightening hitting nearby buildings. It was mad. Then on the way home that night my iPod died a sorry death. Nothing spectacular, no fanfare. It just went quietly, not a sound...that was the problem. There was absolutely nothing!! I took it into Apple Store in Shinsaibashi last night and, without a request for a warranty card, they replaced it. I now have a spanking new iPod. Nice.

Not sure what plans are afoot for Saturday, but am off birding the Yamatogawa on Sunday with Neil. We is hunting gulls...It is supposed be warm and sunny, yeah baby!! Oh, and it started snowing tonight on my way home. This world is going crazy.

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