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Computer related question. I normally do word processing in WordPerfect, but it doesn't handle Hiragana. I have MS Word, sigh, but as ever, it won't format correctly. Anyone know of a basic package where I can easily create columns in Latin and Kana?

Flying Tokyo to London in January (Virgin excellent ) daylight flight gave a fantastic view of the frozen Tundra of Siberia. A brilliant landscape of shallow rivers meandering through frozen marshland. A real treat after 15 years of flying ove Australian desert.

What is "magic" tea?

It means "going like crazy". Putting a lot of effort and energy into the dancing.

Norman Tebbit "the Chingford Polecat" and Paul Keating (both cut from the same cloth) were always interesting to have around.

If your boots fit properly, then you don't need thick socks.

Taught No1 son to ski. Last winter I chucked his skis in the boot after I put mine on the roof. Complaint: I want my skis to ride with yours, dad. No worries tsondaboy, my sons know who their father is.

Fred retired about 10 years ago, so he's mid seventies. His lectures were models of crystal clarity. Ace intellect.

My ex-wife is a vindictive bitch from hell who destroyed my family, my home and my career, then took me to the cleaners via the Child Support Agency and the Family Court. I am here because I met someone kind. I have a new and better life, but I miss my children as much as they miss me. Having failed to control me with every legal means, she punishes by witholding my kids. Sorry.

Fred Vine taught me geophysics. He was the guy who worked out the link between geomagnetic reversals and sea floor spreading, the final link in plate tectonic theory. Top bloke and a brilliant lecturer.

Far out. BSc in Environmental Sciences from U East Anglia, and PhD in Sedimentary Geology from Reading. Enjoy the PhD. It's your's and your's alone, but alone can be tough.

Yes. I am a geologist, and I never stop learning. My speciality is surface processes, and Japan is beautiful.

Thanks. Nice site.

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Quote: Originally posted by scouser: Is this primarily happening in Australia? Apparently yes. Never heard of it in the UK.

Thanks tsondaboy. Gassan is right behind Hayama, so I'll have a look next time I'm up there.

Japan is nirvana for anyone interested in dynamic landscapes (NZ too). I've put together a little layout of Hayama (not Haiyama) which shows the side fallen off the volcano very nicely. Volcano is red, slump is pink. The rim of the cone is the high ridge, and the hills in the foreground are the slump.

My partner had no problem following it. She found it a bit confronting, unsurprisingly.

"A woman is a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke". Yeah, don't mind a smoke myself. It's nice to live in the country; the local produce is so interesting, varied and fresh.

Slow day at work? We seem to have a conceptual malfunction, mission control. It's a Swiss army corkscrew. They come with some handy dandy extra stuff, but no contest. I don't need a watch to tell me when it's time to open the wine.

In that case you are stuck with "how many hours does he/she sleep?",, and "do you use a nappy service?".

"Looks just like Chuchill"?

New born babies all look like Churchill, because they have just been extruded through a 10 cm tube. But they are all beautiful, especially mine. How about kawaii?

Electricity is always the no.1 choice for lifts, and I'm sure most of them are electric.

Less cryptically, anything that has potential energy and is unstable may be upset by an earthquake. We have a spectrum of mass transport processes which ranges from rockfall at one end, to detachment faulting, which move blocks of rock the size of small countries, at the other (rare). Avalanches certainly fit within this range. My nearest mountain (Haiyama) is a textbook classic example of sector collapse. From my bedroom window, I can look directly inside the cone, because about 2/5ths of the volcano has slumped and rotated out, to form a serrated line of hills at the base. It's a