We had a busy weekend. On Saturday we went to a local matsuri (festival) where Sanae regressed to her early childhood and ate all sorts of bizarre food (sugar-coated, deep-fat fried frankfurter anyone?). On Sunday we took ourselves off to a garden centre near Chitose that prides itself on recreating a typical English garden experience. In the middle of an aspen forest.
Next to an air force base.
The English tea set was bang on though, freshly baked scones with lashings of whipped cream and a heap of home-made blueberry jam washed down with a pot of organic assam tea. Momentarily displacing the present as you found yourself in a little piece of Japan that is forever England.
And then an F-15 would roar low overhead, afterburners blazing, as the Japanese 'Top Guns' practiced their take-offs and landings, and the moment would be gone.
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