Yeah, it's a bit, it's, it's a bit depressing and a bit scary. Diplomacy will hopefully win. Wow. Hello, welcome to the Aborn Japan podcast. Probably the best way of learning about life in Japan without actually being in Japan. I'm your host, Chris Broder. We're joined as always. My England's top Japan enthusiast, Mr. Pete Darlson, Pete, I've run out of Pekari Sweat. How you do it? Damn it.

Oh, you'll have to use you. You'll have to create your own sweat and lick that, unfortunately. I'm good, Chris. I have, I've spent the last couple of days. I'm going to say modifying my garden somewhat. Oh, lovely. There's a big wall in my garden that I am seeking to replace the unlovable breeze blocks with glass.

I bought some glass balustrade from some bloc on Facebook Marketplace in Lewisham.

And I've basically chopped down a wall.

I bought this thing.

Oh, God.

I bought this big, I bought this big saw, right?

And I've been using it to chop things down.

I'm chopping a lot of like cement and blocks and brick and it is undefeated.

This diamond-tipped circular sort of still saw is absolutely undefeated. I am, I am, I feel like a

god, Chris. I've been spending the last couple days just chopping walls down and then I've

got a big lump hammer and I'm just smashing walls. It's been very satisfying. My partner

is a little bit underwhelmed with what the garden's looking like right now. We've sort of

reached a bit of a hot spell. You know, summer is upon us, Chris.

And my partner, Sarah, is not happy about the mess I've made in the garden.

There's a lot of cement kicking around.

I've got.

Can you blame me?

No, no, I can't.

You know what, I can't.

The thing that gets me is, she is, she mistrusts my capacity for DIY when I think in my world I don't think she has any

cause for concern about that I don't think I don't think she should be that worried about it

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