We are joined at dinner by what I thought was one of the workmen from the building site but turns out to be Siaoko the painter doing the screen upstairs. I am disappointed - for one I liked the idea of a cross gender workforce and I liked the idea of one of the builders inviting themselves for dinner. Barnaby and Marcus are transfixed, but everyone else (without amourous intent) immediately thinks she is a self-centred control freak. Bear in mind she spoke no English, how do we make judgments so easily about people? I guess we will see who is right as time goes by.
Another trip to Tokamachi for shopping and email, produced a 7 Samurai film moment when Ben and Barnaby delightedly told me they had bought guitars and amps – like the moment when Mifume shows off the Samurai armour – to be greeted with disgust. I got over it but I was worried about how much time might evaporate into strumming not to mention the irritation of endless guitar noise. We can anyway perform for the village on the 22nd when we will do an open day. The village want to have a food exchange and a party. Everyone is hard at it getting people involved.
An old guy in a great tartan hat comes by the house and makes a great grass hopper out of grass. It’s dumb conceptualism only this time it’s great, what a fantastic party trick for young children, although Marcus thinks it takes to long to make and woul’nt hold a young persons attention.
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