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2024
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Winter is coming 3: Outdoor furniture
Last night we went from summer savings time to standard time. A pretty daft system if you ask me, but I am not going to rant about that. One mnemonic for the problem of turning a clock backwards or forwards one hour is that "when you put BACK your outdoor furniture to indoor storage is …
Ett Nytt År är fött.
Ett år är ju en inte helt godtycklig tidsenhet. Ett varv runt solen för gamla Tellus. Från vilken dag man räknar nytt år är ju däremot tämligen godtyckligt. Förra året skrev jag om hur det gamla året dör och det nya föds (också en helt godtycklig metafor) i japanska ritualer. Vi har ju också bilder, …
…welcome 2012
On January 1, or the next few days, most Japanese go visit a Shinto shrine to welcome the new year. Some shrines have millions of visitors during these days. Birth, life and fertility. what did they do yesterday? Happy New Year!
R.I.P. 2011…
In Japan, some people visit a Buddhist temple before the clock strikes midnight, to say goodbye to and "bury" the old year. Death. On the first of January they …