Guest appearances from Santa

The last week and a half I have been parading around as Santa to all the local nursery schools. It's been tiring and at times alittle tedious. But I'm overall glad that it's done. Some of the kids recognised that it was me, but in the many that thought I was the 'real' Santa, the expressions on their faces was pretty priceless. Along with the many difficult and unusual questions that I got asked. My favourites being:

'Who does Santa sleep with at night?'
'Why does Santa have a big white beard?'
'Why did Santa arrive in a car?'

Tomorrow, off to Wakayama, and then Sri Lanka(!) on Friday. Have decided that since the trains are running so erraticaly recently due to the snow situation, it is probably best not to cut it too fine and arrive at the airport with only an hour or two to spare. Hence tomorrow night will be spent in the capable hands of me old mate Callum.

Since, this is probably going to be my last blog entry for a while I thought that I would write down some of my highlights of 2005:

Hiroshima; cherry blossom and hanami outside Himeji Castle; drinking watermelon shakes on Koh Phan-Ngan, Thailand; playing as the Bento Boys at the Halloween party; Hokkaido; rehearsing with the Bad Santas; general silliness (drunken or otherwise); 'Takk... '- new album by Sigur Ros; dressing up in cool kimono for koto concert;

In fact far too much has happened this year. So that's really the only ones that jump out at me at this time.

Merry Xmas.