Buongiorno Narcissi
I hope you have been having a happy and perfumed summer/ winter, and have not even considered making an offer to buy Greenland.
Forgive my absence – I have just instinctively taken a long, airheaded, unthinking, much needed breather : : thoroughly enjoying taking a hiatus from this crazy, burning world and just basking, and recharging, in the glory that is the cicada chorused Japanese summer with D : the first time I have properly relaxed, and just been pleasingly brainless and free (just cycling and reading and going to the beach and to nice restaurants), for really quite a while. I have really needed this time. Naturally, I still have a thousand things I want to write about, but I just thought, in the meantime, I would put up the piece on the book that came out in the Japan Times today. I know the writer was planning a longer and more in-depth article until the editors came along and truncated it (………….), but I must admit it was still quite exciting to find myself on the bottom right hand corner of the front page.
I also quite like being described as an ‘olfactory detective’.
Speak soon.