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For today’s second post I am keeping with the theme ‘sweets’. The picture shows a box of pineapple cakes. The cakes are from Taiwan and we got those as a gift. In Japan, and I believe also in other Asian countries, it is incredibly common to give and receive gift boxes like these. To say thank you for a favour, a job well-done, to bring back as a souvenir (‘omiyage’) when you’ve been travelling etc. Continue reading “memory archive – day 10.2”
There is a certain shelf in one of the kitchen cupboards that I am trying to ignore as much as possible. It’s the snack shelf and it is a complete mess. The reason for this are the piles of cheap sweets that occupy the shelf, burrowing most if not all of the more reasonable snacks. Continue reading “memory archive – day 10.1”
This is a hot water bottle which is at least 15 years old. You can’t see it in the picture but the material is porous and there are small openings everywhere. My partner thinks this item shouldn’t be included in the memory archive as it’s being dumped due to old age. It also nearly got him seriously injured yesterday when I thought I’m doing something good by pre-warming the bed. That’s how we found out about its state actually. Continue reading “memory archive – day 9.2”
I won’t be able to post for a little while. I’ll make sure though to stick to my self-imposed ‘one a day’ rule and will make up for those missed days. There are many more memories for the archive!
This is a fancy Japanese humidifier and a perfect object to explain my resistance of getting rid of no longer needed items. Continue reading “memory archive – day 8”
This memory is yet about another living thing that we didn’t manage to keep alive for long. Continue reading “memory archive – day 7”
katazukete 