Jay.
Beautiful birds in my garden. One breed of many visitors.
Japan.
I'm homesick - not for the UK but for Japan. I miss almost everything about this incredible country. Apart from the horrendous summer heat and earthquakes. Rhiannon is very homesick for Tokyo and is worried because she's forgetting her Japanese language skills already.
Somebody asked us recently if we would go back for a visit but I don't see how that would be possible. It's so far, so expensive both to fly to and to live there, even for a short time. we just don't have the money. One day I hope to be able to go there again.
We've got a corner of the downstairs room set up as a sitting room. It's entirely decorated with Japanese objets d'art.
Jet Lag.
Horrible. Led to waking very early and an annoying bladder problem.
Janitor.
Wonderful Polish gentleman who comes to fix things from a jammed gate to teaching me how to open the windows. He also lent us a TV when we arrived because "you have a child? You need a TV!"
Read about both these 'Js' here.