The narrow streets of mediaeval Hattingen, where dodging the night soil being chucked out of the windows above on your way to the market was the sportly equivalent of 30 mins on the treadmill at today’s Gesundheitswerk.

Might have got more of you in focus if you’d have quit blowing about in the breeze.

Shinto wedding procession, Meiji Jingu, Tokyo. Possibly already breaking their hearts about having to present every guest with an expensive household appliance after the reception.

Either very tall bamboo or very teeny people. You decide.

Something like 1€ per leaf in the Japanese supermarkets in Düsseldorf so decided to grow my own. The processing here makes it look really fresh and yummy but in real life, it’s the sorriest looking shiso you can imagine. Thank you, non-green thumb.

Featuring the glamorously named “MA569″.

Guest posting by Herr Kimi. He doesn’t know I think this is a nice shot. It would go to his head.

Like Frank Gehry used Babykimi’s house design straight off the paper. Helllloooooo, the Euromeeters!

Have your o-hanami party in the grounds of Osaka castle, where you can gaze upon the beauty of a fake rustic fence in the comfort of knowing that, if that tree is gonna fall, it’ll probably fall the other way.

Setting off torekimi’s smoke detectors since 2012