Signing Off

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Charles Trenet, DOMO, French, Music, NHK, Song, Television, Tokyo

When I was posted to the Communist Paradise of the People’s Republic of China between 2004 and 2007, I use to watch a lot of Japanese television on NHK. I always liked the production value and watching the news no matter how dreadful the story it was always read calmly. No need to get excited it’s only the news, that’s Japan. A country I visited twice and simply loved it, so civilized. Not the case in China with its non-stop propaganda news, similar to what you could see in North Korea.

NHK, is Japan’s national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized acronym in Japanese, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers’ payments of a television license fee. It’s motto, まっすぐ、真剣。 (“Straightforward, earnest”)

At night the signing off music is the great French song of Charles Trenet, La Mer. Truly a classic song it there ever was one. The words are beautiful, it is a poem about the Sea describing its quality, a shepherdess watching over the crest of the wave which are white like sheep. Shepherdess of infinite azure. The Sea cradles my heart for life.

 

DOMO Kun, the Official Mascot of NHK television

Sunday photos

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Beach, Canada., Fish, fishing, PEI, Sun and Surf, Television

Well tomorrow the first cruise ship arrives in Charlottetown, Holland American has that honour, the fishing Season opened this week, the lobster fleet sailed out yesterday and the Striped Bass Season is also open but it is a catch and release exercise with only a few days when you can keep one fish. The trails have re-opened in the National Park in PEI and May is PEI National Bar-B-Q month, that I did not know but given that we celebrate Queen Victoria’s Birthday around 24 May no wonder, that is what you do no that day and fireworks too.

Lobster boats in port

Striped Bass, it’s a pretty big fish I am told. it is an endangered and vulnerable specie, Atlantic striped bass, striper, linesider, pimpfish, rock, or rockfish, is an anadromous Perciforme fish of the Moronidae family found primarily along the Atlantic coast of North America.

My Summer at the Beach and I am looking forward to it

A typical weather forecast in PEI’ism, this was this Winter, the expression dirt coming means either rain or snow fall.

Here is a line up of Television programming catering to Island taste, you may know some of these.

Quality television.

Another quality show, known to all.

A classic!

Of course everyone of our visitors will get a special gift to wear as a souvenir of their visit to wonderful PEI.

The total look!  Yes I know you all want one and we have one for each visitor.