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I saw a roundabout for the first time in six months in Japan today. In fact I saw two. This piece of informaton should give you an idea of the crazy life I have been living recently. I am back from mass festivals and the unusual to the realms of the hum drum and ordinary.

Today though a rather surreal thing happened in that one of Reiko`s family in some far flung corner of Japan decided to send us six large crabs which we have been making our way through this evening. It is quite a thing to come home to a large polystyrene box full of six dead yet still menacing sea monsters but this has been happening all year. Before we have been sent (and eaten) crates of oranges, chocolates and biscuits. Today sea monster.

This has also given me the dubious pleasure of ingesting crab`s brain which like all those other foods which fall under the umbrella of delicacies are out of the ordinary, disgusting and expensive. It wasn`t especially bad tasting although slimy and grey but it is one of those foods which I don`t want to eat again. It tastes exactly like you`d think a brain would. Upon opening a crab we found that it was pregnant with enough babies to fill Noah`s ark. “Oh it`s a female.” Reiko exclaimed. As if it`s slim waste large, sharp claws and hard shell weren`t enough to distinguish that fact. I like crab but the large effort of prising apart the shell to reveal a miniscule amount of (admittedly delicious) flesh inside is not appealing to a lazy man such as myself. It was very tasty however. Still I think that is the most unusual thing I have ever seen delivered in the post.