On T.V., on Sunday afternoon. The early nineties re-runs really add to the middle aged masters at their most tense. Watch out for that guy with the mullet, he's playing the Ko!!

Slip and slide up the mountain again with my host Mom for summer camp with kids. They play in the water, so do I. It's a nice day. What else you want me to say?

Kids head on fire.... Note the 15 year old boy to the left of the picture with the word 'BUXOM' across his back. Engrish is the new black.

If you think the kids go wild at night you should see the daytimes. It's like some kind of post-modern Lord of the Flies going on here. Watch out for the kid with The Rolling-Stones T-Shirt. She's obviously deluded and dangerous.

The Deca-Rangers hit Mashiki festival. I weep again. My host Mom thinks I'm absolutely mad to want photos of the event. Photos? You should see the video...

Looking like a twat I bravely forfeit my right to keep myself to myself and have photos taken with every old woman within 200 yrds. Someone forced that head band on, I danced then I was set upon by screaming oldies.... again.

Mashiki is the biggest town in Kumamoto prefecture and it seemed everyone wanted a piece of the festival action when the fireworks kicked in on the main night.

And this is why. Highly explosive, highly illegal anywhere west of India. What the crowd don't tell the token westerner about is that every firework/pretty grenade is sent flying from the quivering hands of local children, forced into a life of mesmorising explosions and crippling loneliness... Please forgive my lies

The best thing about working in the BoE is the view. Mashiki ripples in half cast, post storm weather. Glorious

Just look at the multi-cultural head coverings adorning my entrance. I was going to be rude there, but something pulled me back

Is quite nice too

Me, 6 JET ladies and a band called The Dimes, www.thedimes.com, who we randomly met. They are from Portland Oregon and they are very sound. It's ok to drink on the streets in Japan. Sweet

£10 each gets you a karaoke booth big enough to accomodate your party and two hours of singing and as much booze as you can slide down your gullet. We slid down a lot thank you. I sang a lot thank you..... Yeah I know, F-off :-)

Notice - if you can avoid the beautiful pre-typhoon sky for a minute - the on base Mcdonalds in the bottom right corner. They couldn't make these things up... In the Navy, you CAN feel a man.

Taken on the US-Navy Base in Sasebo, no lie. Watch what happens when you flick to the next shot.....

We suddenly perk up...

As the spiritual power of some Shinto God hits the pinnacle of the Shrine to the left so to does the God of Coca-Cola demand a light soft drink to the right. Japan: The country of many contrasts.

I am prepared for hitting the typhoon head on. Being British does have its benifits

Wet, windy and altogether perilous. Me and Nikki don't care, although an hour later we nearly got hit by a flying drainpipe.

Steven Seagal, selling Japanese mushrooms.... I don't understand