Monday, April 18, 2005
hanami time
Following on from my previous post, yesterday I decided to celebrate hanami properly by actually sitting under a cheery tree, however briefly. I persuaded a couple of flatmates to join me, including Madoka, which was good as she, being japanese, knew what the whole thing was about.
Although the weather wasn't great, and the ground under the trees a little more soggy than it should have been ideally, we had a good time. Sometimes it's just good to get out into the open air of the real world for a while, after spending most of my time in a fairly stuffy room trying to invent imaginary ones (being a writer and all).
Below is the photographic proof of us correctly celebrating hanami. Please ignore the looks of abject terror in the first photo; it seems to happen a lot when i'm aiming the camera for some reason...
They're not as scared as they look!
See, we enjoyed it really
Although the weather wasn't great, and the ground under the trees a little more soggy than it should have been ideally, we had a good time. Sometimes it's just good to get out into the open air of the real world for a while, after spending most of my time in a fairly stuffy room trying to invent imaginary ones (being a writer and all).
Below is the photographic proof of us correctly celebrating hanami. Please ignore the looks of abject terror in the first photo; it seems to happen a lot when i'm aiming the camera for some reason...
They're not as scared as they look!
See, we enjoyed it really
