My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

I loved going to college.

It's good you can retrain and do something.

Yeah, yeah.

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mutant talk and head to Japan which is a subject of a new book by Christopher

Harding a lecturer at Edinburgh University. The Japanese, a history in 20 lives is a companion volume, I really like

that phrase, to Japan's story, his take on the country's history since 1850.

The closest I've got to Japan recently was a Cherry Blossom and Ormond Roll on Junior Bakeoff, which most of the contestants managed a massacre, so I'm definitely up for some escapism at this point.

And it's nearly Cherry Blossom season season in Japan the first blooms will appear in

mid-March earlier than usual admiring the flowers is so important in Japan that a whole

ritual is devoted to it, the Hanami

festival when people have picnics underneath cherry trees. And Chris, hello

welcome to the bunker. Hello thank you for having me. You moved to Japan in 2004 didn't you?

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