http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog Blogging on building Gunpla, Gundam & Japan Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:44:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/04/18/ilkley-moor-walk-conclusion/ http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/04/18/ilkley-moor-walk-conclusion/#comments Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:35:17 +0000 James http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/?p=709 Well I made it! Somehow… Set off from the house at around 10.30 this morning with Steve, and caught the train to Ilkley where out crazy adventure began. I’d set the camera to interval mode and attached it to my bag in the hopes of getting some decent shops for a timelapse of the walk.. [...]]]> http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/04/18/ilkley-moor-walk-conclusion/feed/ 0 http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/04/17/ilkley-moor-walk/ http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/04/17/ilkley-moor-walk/#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:24:16 +0000 James http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/?p=701 We’re due some lovely weather in my neck of the woods this weekend, so this Sunday i’m off out with the dog to walk from Ilkley to Saltaire across the moor! I’ve dug out my walking shoes, got some bottled water and made sure the GPS on my phone is working. Will be taking the [...]]]> http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/04/17/ilkley-moor-walk/feed/ 0 http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/02/22/layout-rejigging/ http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/02/22/layout-rejigging/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:12:27 +0000 James http://www.naffworld.co.uk/blog/?p=508 As happy as I am with the new site layout it’s still very much a work in progress. Over the weekend i’ve had a play with the excerpt function to create thumbnails for each post, allowing me to fit much more on the front page and hopefully make it a bit easier on the eye. [...]]]> http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/02/22/layout-rejigging/feed/ 0 http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/02/14/poking-around-some-abandoned-dodgems/ http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/02/14/poking-around-some-abandoned-dodgems/#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:44:25 +0000 James http://www.naffworld.co.uk/blog/?p=490 Happy Valentines day all! Earlier today Emma and I went for a stroll with the dog up to Baildon Moor. We’ve passed this abandoned dodgem place many times before, and today we had a camera with us and I couldn’t resist going in for a closer look! I’d love to find more places like this [...]]]> http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/02/14/poking-around-some-abandoned-dodgems/feed/ 0 http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/01/23/happy-almost1-month-emma/ http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/01/23/happy-almost1-month-emma/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:00:13 +0000 James http://www.naffworld.co.uk/blog/?p=451 Tomorrow Emma and I will have been Married one whole month!(where does time go?!) Seeing as Sunday night is a terrible night to celebrate anything thanks to work the next day I surprised her with a tasty meal of Renkon no Kinpira followed by Tori no Karaage which seems to have gone down rather well! [...]]]> http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/01/23/happy-almost1-month-emma/feed/ 0 http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/01/12/a-year-in-review-top-10-posts-of-2009/ http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/01/12/a-year-in-review-top-10-posts-of-2009/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:08:15 +0000 James http://www.naffworld.co.uk/blog/?p=325 Well 2009 and the noughties are well and truly gone, and I thought i’d just share which posts written over the past year have proven to be most popular! Quite a few random ones in here, i’d like to thank everyone who drops by. I hope you like what you see here and comments are [...]]]> http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/01/12/a-year-in-review-top-10-posts-of-2009/feed/ 2 http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/01/06/snowy-saltaire/ http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/01/06/snowy-saltaire/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:56:07 +0000 James http://www.naffworld.co.uk/blog/?p=348 Ever since I arrived back in the UK the weather has been bloody freezing! On Monday night we had an absolute throwdown of snow which has prevented me from getting to work the past couple of days. Despite the inconvenience it does make everything look quite nice so i’ve been taking the camera out and [...]]]> http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/01/06/snowy-saltaire/feed/ 2 http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/01/03/home/ http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/01/03/home/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:12:35 +0000 James http://www.naffworld.co.uk/blog/?p=329 After some 26 hours of travelling through all sorts of weather we are home with our doggie Pickles! The trip started around 7am in Tokyo and being a Saturday morning it was nice and quiet so no getting pushed around like last time, quick ride on the Yamanote from Shinjuku to Shinagawa and we were [...]]]> http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2010/01/03/home/feed/ 0 http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2009/12/25/operation-wedding-complete-wife-get/ http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2009/12/25/operation-wedding-complete-wife-get/#comments Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:51:44 +0000 James http://www.naffworld.co.uk/blog/?p=275 Merry Christmas everyone!!!]]> http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2009/12/25/operation-wedding-complete-wife-get/feed/ 6 http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2009/11/19/we-fly-out-to-japan-a-month-today/ http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2009/11/19/we-fly-out-to-japan-a-month-today/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:18:26 +0000 James http://www.naffworld.co.uk/blog/?p=167 It’s come around so fast! So yes, this time next month we’ll be rushing around airports and generally stressing as we head from Manchester to Kyoto via Amsterdam. It’s the first time I haven’t flown direct so i’m a bit worried about that but i’m sure it will be fine. As far as everything else [...]]]> http://www.tubbygaijin.co.uk/blog/2009/11/19/we-fly-out-to-japan-a-month-today/feed/ 0