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		<title>Farmlog 21st February 2010</title>
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When Spring comes the air will get hazy, but although it&#8217;s warmed up nicely, it&#8217;s still clear and we had more beautiful views of snowy mountains on the way out from Nagoya.
In the Summer the farmers&#8217; stalls will be full of fresh vegetables, all for ¥100 a bag. Maybe the cucumbers aren&#8217;t of the regulation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asazuke.com&blog=3665626&post=271&subd=asazuke&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://asazuke.com/2010/03/01/farmlog-21st-february-2010/</link>
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		<title>Farmlog 15th February 2010</title>
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A cloudy Sunday, but not too cold.
In the evening while I was relieving myself at our outside facilities a medium-sized dog passed by just between me and the house. By the time I was able to go and have a look there was no trace of it.
Monday was chilly wet and miserable again. We had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asazuke.com&blog=3665626&post=269&subd=asazuke&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://asazuke.com/2010/03/01/farmlog-15th-february-2010/</link>
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		<title>Farmlog 7th February 2010</title>
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For once it&#8217;s clear and sunny, but freezing cold. This is supposed to be a mild winter but there&#8217;ve certainly been some cold bits too.
Driving out from Nagoya we had spectacular views of white mountains in the distance. Ena on the right, Norikura (I think) on the left and the holy Mount Ontake right ahead. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asazuke.com&blog=3665626&post=267&subd=asazuke&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://asazuke.com/2010/03/01/farmlog-7th-february-2010/</link>
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		<title>Farmlog 1st February 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overcast, wet, chilly, soggy, windy&#8230; just like the UK where I came from &#8211; forget all that stuff about how delightful the Japanese Winter is! Even the birds have gone away somewhere.
Even so, some shoots are coming up through the melting snow&#8230;
Min. temp -7°C, max. 5°C
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		<link>http://asazuke.com/2010/03/01/farmlog-1st-february-2010/</link>
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		<title>Sakushima</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leaving Tokyo on my first shinkansen ride &#8211; some time ago &#8211; I was stuck to the window eager to see some of the Japanese countryside.
It didn&#8217;t happen. 20 or 30 minutes out the buildings still hadn&#8217;t stopped, although by then we were going through Yokohama I suppose.The urban sprawl continued all the way to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asazuke.com&blog=3665626&post=243&subd=asazuke&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://asazuke.com/2010/02/19/sakushima/</link>
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		<title>Farmlog 18th January 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s still cold. The climate septics (sic) must be having a field day with this Global Freezing we&#8217;ve been having lately, and two weeks after our snowbound New Year there&#8217;s still snow on the ground (maybe it melted once in between) and we had to leave the car at the top of our drive because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asazuke.com&blog=3665626&post=241&subd=asazuke&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://asazuke.com/2010/01/29/farmlog-18th-january-2010/</link>
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		<title>Whale Meat Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The whaling season got off to a good start with a collision between the Japanese ship and the Sea Shepherd hi-tech speedboat that sank the pirates. The Japanese media refer to the protesters as something like terrorists, and can&#8217;t seem to understand why the Australians, and most of the rest of the world, should have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asazuke.com&blog=3665626&post=238&subd=asazuke&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://asazuke.com/2010/01/20/whale-meat-again/</link>
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		<title>New Year at the farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The weather forecast said a cold front was on its way and sure enough just after midday on the outskirts of town the snow started sprinkling down. We were on our way out to Gifu so that didn&#8217;t bode too well for conditions further on, but we had decided to spend a couple of days [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asazuke.com&blog=3665626&post=233&subd=asazuke&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://asazuke.com/2010/01/19/new-year-at-the-farm/</link>
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		<title>Hana Matsuri</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we got a postcard from a village in Toei Cho in the mountains of Aichi prefecture &#8211; the same prefecture as Nagoya but a completely different world. That region is known for the Hana matsuri (&#8220;flower festival&#8221;) held around this time of year and which seems to be a sort of fertility rite to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asazuke.com&blog=3665626&post=231&subd=asazuke&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://asazuke.com/2009/12/30/hana-matsuri/</link>
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		<title>Spring Cleaning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend (27th &#38; 28th) we stayed in Nagoya again to do some cleaning up before the New Year holiday. I had given myself the task of getting the grease off the extractor fan hood, and T re-waxed the floor so the restaurant looks quite nice now. This is the traditional time for a big [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asazuke.com&blog=3665626&post=227&subd=asazuke&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://asazuke.com/2009/12/30/spring-cleaning/</link>
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