Snow in April

Unbelievably, it snowed in Birmingham (and elsewhere in England) recently, which is most unusual for April. Here are some photographs that my mother took from my parents’ house. Don’t the trees on the ‘island’ look beautiful!

Birthday Party

As you may already have read, it was my father’s 90th birthday a couple of weeks ago. Here’s a picture of his birthday cake, and another of him cutting it!

Bread and Butter Pudding (Again)

I asked my mother to send me the recipe she uses to make bread and butter pudding. Here it is:

Bread and Butter Pudding

Ingredients

• 6 slices buttered bread

• 25g sugar

• 50g sultanas

• 1 egg

• 300ml milk

• grated nutmeg (if liked)

Method

• Place the buttered bread slices in pairs (buttered sides together) and cut into triangles

• Place the triangles in a suitable dish, half overlapping, and sprinkling the sultanas between the slices

• Beat together the egg and milk and pour over the bread

• Sprinkle with the sugar and leave to stand for about half an hour and then bake in a preheated oven at 180C/160CFan for 30-40 minutes until set and golden brown

There are many variations of this recipe such as adding more sugar, replacing some of the milk with cream, adding candied peel etc, but this is the one I always use.

Washing

Hello, everybody!

What a lovely day today!

Spring has come, I hope!

Because of the nice weather, Idid 2 lots of washing this morning!

Do you like doing the washing? Actually I do! cos it’s kind of refreshing somehow.

またまた。。。

またまた、電化製品が完璧壊れました!!!

昨日、イベントの曲を家のＨｉ－ｆｉで聴いていたら、でた～！歌がとぎれとぎれ！

最近、ＣＤをＨｉ－Ｆｉが調子悪かったのですが、昨日は完璧壊れました。寿命は１０年でした。やっぱり10年ですね！

But never mind! never mind! I’ll listen to it in my car!

Neil’s father’s birthday!

Neil’s father’s birthday was on the 3rd of April.

He became 90 years old!!! How wonderful!

I hope he will be able to live to at least 120 years old!!

Neil’s birthday!

Today is our principal’s birthday!!!

If you want to know how old he is now, ask him directly!

Tomorrow, our staff and English Village band members are gathering to celebrate his birthday!

Oh, come to think of it, we haven’t decided where to do that! I should do that… 

awful weather!!

今日は本当に天気が悪いですね。。。

でも明日は、sunny!!!天気悪いとスカーッとしませんが、明日はsunny!

明日も楽しんで行きましょう！！

Nasu

Misato and I went to Nasu yesterday to visit our coffee supplier’s premises. It was a lovely sunny day so it was a great day for our visit, but Misato was suffering from her pollen allergy there.

However, as far as I was concerned, the air was really clean and fresh, which made me feel relaxed and sleepy!

錦糸町校イベント　8月9日へ変更のお知らせ！

先日錦糸町校のイベントを7月26日土曜日に行うと、告知させて頂きましたが、7月26日は隅田川の花火大会の日と同じだと言うが発覚しました。

そこで、錦糸町のイベントの日時を8月9日土曜日19時スタートへ、変更させて頂きます。

皆さんが気になっているイングリッシュヴィレッヂBandは、ただいま準備中です。

というか、メンバーの皆はどうしているのだろうか・・・・・

Neilはキーボードに音を入れ始めたのだろうか・・・・

っていうかShuheiは毎週会っているのでおいといて、Hiroはどうしているのだろうか・・・

Hiro、なにげに個人練習していますか？？？

でも、本番の日はやります！EnlgishVillageBandは気合入ってます！！

★錦糸町校イベント　8月9日土曜日19時～　★

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