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William wrote: ↑Wed Mar 19, 2025 4:37 am

Roger Van Zant wrote: ↑Wed Mar 19, 2025 4:30 am Thankfully I found a foreign doctor and was able to discuss the issue with him.

Based on your published location, I don't assume this doctor is in Tokyo?

Fukuoka.

I went to a Japanese clinic and asked for a tetanus booster, and they have no idea what I was talking about.
That was pretty alarming.
Thankfully I found a foreign doctor and was able to discuss the issue with him.

Never had a problem with my direct debit. I get a letter every February/March that details payments to be taken for the forthcoming year. I chose “twice a year” payments. After the second payment, my record is updated on the same day. I highly recommend direct debit. There’s no stress of waiting fo...

AreTheyTheLemmings? wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 2:33 am

Roger Van Zant wrote: ↑Mon Mar 03, 2025 7:47 amland that was truly mine to do with as I pleased.

I hope I'm not being too nosy, but what have you done with it?

Planted lots of fruit trees. Set up some boar cages.

I bought farmland and then reclassified it as mountain land. It cost me about 90,000 yen for the judicial scrivener fees. The plot was about 3/4 of an acre in size. Thanks for the reply Roger Van Zant. That's an interesting move. Did you investigate that change before buying? Was the change to avoi...

I bought farmland and then reclassified it as mountain land. It cost me about 90,000 yen for the judicial scrivener fees. The plot was about 3/4 of an acre in size.

I switched to the Times and would recommend it. Apart from the occasional op-ed by Gerald Baker it’s free of the type of rubbish that fills up the Telegraph now. Very little evidence it’s owned by Murdoch in the content. I pair it with The Guardian (which is free) and get some kind of balance that ...

I am also wondering about this. Any advice? I maxed out all 3.6m of my NISA allowance in 2024 after selling my house (the whole lot in eMaxis Slim All Country). A little while later, I bought six shares of NVIDIA in my tokutei account. Due to the stock split in June 2024, I now have sixty shares of ...

Hi all.... We moved into a mansion and there are two vents in our living room. i found a similar image online and attached here. My question is...is there any way for me to reduce the amount of freezing cold air coming in? I can push on the vent cover and it "closes", but still more air s...

Hi all.... We moved into a mansion and there are two vents in our living room. i found a similar image online and attached here. My question is...is there any way for me to reduce the amount of freezing cold air coming in? I can push on the vent cover and it "closes", but still more air s...