Weeknotes: The More I See — Week 21, 2026

Monday I took the day off to do some personal shopping as a follow-up to the image consulting. The hardest part was buying new shoes, because virtually nowhere stocks my size. But it was great and I got a few new ideas. Yeah so anyway the shoes have already chewed through one of my heels. Let’s try this again in a few weeks. We’re in evaluation season, and as well as doing my own, for the first time in a long time it’s my turn to hear other people’s evaluations and later to calibrate them. This is interesting because — I realise that — since arriving in Japan I have been guessing what evaluators want to hear based on my experience in the UK & BG, and I wish I had known the differences a year ago. Met up with ROL, in town on holiday, for some okonomiyaki and a natter. We walk around Shinjuku for a bit before noticing a place off to the side of a road and saying, “Huh, that looks interesting”. My first time doing the okonomiyaki dance by hand, and gosh, it’s both more fun and much… Read…