This is from my diary from when we first relocated to Japan – pre-blog. Other entries can be found here.

Poor Cameron hasn’t been well this week. It’s Golden week so he’s had a couple of days off, but he spent most of yesterday on the sofa. He’s gone in today because he’s off to the states on Monday and has to prepare, but I’ve no idea what sort of state he’ll come back in. I’ve been sent hardly any work today, which is a bit annoying but does mean I can go to a bookshop (I’ve finished all my books!) and get out in the sunshine a bit. I’ve taken tomorrow off.

We think we felt our first earth tremor a couple of days ago – we were sitting watching TV when the house shook! It was like someone slamming a door (hard) or a big lorry driving past. We can’t have a proper quake yet because I haven’t yet collected together water, tinned food, etc. (If I had it wouldn’t be much good as the tin opener is still on the ship.)

The rest of the rental furniture is arriving next week – although they are going to take away the temporary stuff, including my desk, which is not ideal – and also a maid! 4 hrs/week. Hoorah.