Gina Collia-Suzuki's Blog – December 2008 Archive (2)

Yesterday, whilst waiting for the Brussels sprouts to boil, inhaling the aroma of a Quorn roast in the oven, and listening to Bing Crosby sing about peace on earth and good will towards men, I was visited by the ghost of Christmas past and he gave me cause to wince a little. It's not that Christmases have ever been entirely ruined by our nuisance neighbours in the past, but that was never for the want of trying on their part. Sufficiently malevolent all year round, they always favoured this… Continue

A friend asked several years ago, after commenting on a celebrity autobiography she'd been reading, if I would be willing to write my own life story. Having devoted my adult life to the study of Japanese art, spending most of my time with my nose in a book or hovering above a Japanese print, I considered it unlikely that my existence would be eventful enough to warrant lengthy disclosure to the entire world, and responded 'I should be so lucky, who'd read it?'



Less than six months… Continue