bits and bobs

20200809 Sunday

I’m thinking of 11:02 Nagasaki.

Text of a speech by Nagasaki Mayor Taue.

https://www.city.nagasaki.lg.jp/heiwa/3020000/3020300/p035062_d/fil/japanese.pdf

washed my light futon.

I made my first handmade 😷 mask yesterday.

I’ve been wondering who is the stylist of a photo of the beautiful couple, Mr. Seto and Ms. Yamamoto. The styling seems to intend gender less. Great work.

https://www.google.co.jp/amp/s/www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20200807/amp/k10012557491000.html

Canada brewery apologises for beer named ‘pubic hair’ in Maori

Pubic hair 陰毛

A Canadian brewery has apologised for unwittingly naming one of its beers after a Maori word that is commonly used to mean pubic hair.

Unwittingly 知らずして

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53706732

“You can appear to contain the spread among middle-class workers but when it reaches those workers who are furthest on the margins, who are most disadvantaged, the virus is going to spread,” said Edward Flores, a sociology professor at the University of California, Merced.

Fur の最上級 further, furthest
/ fˈɚːðɪst /  fartherは主に距離、furtherは進み具合など、でも、距離にも使える。

“This is the anniversary of a terrible event. But this milestone also marks seventy-five years during which time there has been no repeat of what was inflicted on the people of Nagasaki that day,” said Ishiguro, the 2017 Nobel Prize winner in literature.

Inflict on 押し付ける

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/08/b765693ad47a-ishiguro-stresses-supreme-value-of-life-in-nagasaki-a-bomb-message.html

https://twitter.com/sofiajoubert/status/1292172858773385216?s=21

Found a lovely gouache artist

https://www.agathesinger.com

https://www.bookdepository.com/Anywhere-Anytime-Art-Gouache-Agathe-Singer/9781633224964?ref=grid-view&qid=1596957501119&sr=1-1

Praise myself:

1 washed futon

2 did gouache practice

3 Wrote a complementary on Amazon

4 Said hello to my friends

5 Made cakes

Japan’s shame.

https://m.huffingtonpost.jp/amp/entry/story_jp_5f2f8d7cc5b64d7a55f47bce/