48/365: Aug 27 2008. Tiger Music partnered the UK Embassy on a big social cocktail party on the UK Warship HMS Kent. Today we had to attend a planning meeting on ship, the day before the event, to finalise the logistics with the ships crew. Surreal doesn't begin to explain it. Sailors in uniforms of all sorts walking around with semi-automatic machine guns hanging from their shoulders. Well, not all of them had guns. But there were enough there to make me feel mighty ew.



49/365: Aug 28 2008. After we finished packing up the event (it poured torrentially for half the night), the ships crew (who were definitely, surprisingly, the highlight of my night: great fun, cheeky, helpful) cracked open an esky full of Sapporo and we sat around for a bit drinking with them on the ship. Yes, that is a navy helicopter we were using as a beer rest. Shhh, don't tell anyone.

50/365: Aug 30. Ok, same party but after midnight so thought I'd share this one for the next days POTD. One of the ships crew took me and Jon on a tour of the boat (it rained), explaining the armoury stuff and missiles and all that scary stuff. It was fascinating, terrifying. Those ships are unbelievably powerful. Pray they never come to bomb the country you're in.

51/365: Aug 31. My old colleague and friend Lisa married her long time secret boyfriend Tomo today. Secret because they both work at the same school. I was one of only about 3 people who knew they were a couple and we had to keep it secret for years. I was delighted when they finally outed themselves. And even more delighted when they asked me to not only take their engagement pics but also their wedding pics. It was a gorgeous day, natch. You can see a few more pics over at my photography blog.

52/365: Sept 1. Rain. Rain. Rain. It's been really wet in Tokyo. The park is so beautiful when it's empty.



53/365: Sept 2. They finished demolishing the house behind us and have already started building the replacement. No such thing as sleeping in round here for the next couple of months. Crap.

54/365: Sept 3. Misaki, my dear Misaki. My English student and hairdresser and great friend of 4 years.

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