Easing back

 This blog has been dormant for a while as life in all its myriad demands and duties drew me away. Over, the past couple of days I have been rereading some earlier posts and they served as a evocative reminder of times past which memory itself had sifted away. At 47 with the neural synapses beginning to splutter, my recall needs all the help it can get. So, I've taken the Lazarus apporach, ressurecting the seemingly dead, in order to have something to jog the mind into remembering as I age.
However, before I can update you on all the goings on in the Gaynor-Takahashi family (rugby! surfing! skiing! mountain climbing! dislocated thumb! fainting in the Memuro Town Hospital's emergency room! etc.), I also need to update you on some rule changes that have been introduced to the blogging-sphere. According to Google:
1: The EU demands that I inform you about cookies on this blog. Yes, you've read that correctly, this blog comes with cookies. There should be a couple of chocolate-chip ones left at the bottom of the page if Sanae hasn't eaten them all. Scroll down and have a look. No, go on, scroll down. I won't tell anyone.
2: You scrolled down, didn't you.
3: My HTTPS setting have been changed so now visitors will be able to view the blog over an encrypted connection. Presumably Jason Bourne is going to rest a little more easy at night after reading this.
4: Russia is a great, great country. A tremendous country. And the Russians? Wonderful, wonderful people.

Coming-up: mountain climbing with Cian.