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I know I keep going on about the power cables in Japan, but they are ridiculous. I go for months without noticing them, and then some days they are all I can see. Today is the latter.










From the kitchen balcony










From the living room window







Our street








Close-up of the balcony below (we are the only ones with flowers instead of bags of rubbish - why is that?)







I challenge Alain de Botton to find beauty in that.

Today is a research day which means I work from home (can you tell?) What it really means is that I drink a lot of tea, work on a bit of research data and find excuses for not doing my Japanese homework.