David Hurley (@hirohurl) - Neoxian City

David Hurley

davidhurley.net

Hiroshima, Japan

A British bloke who lives in Japan.

1 day ago

Today, I Gave Away My England Shirt It's not what you might think... Yes, I got up at 3:50

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5 days ago

aliveandthriving

The Mythic Patterns Hidden in Shakespeare's Plays, According to Ted Hughes Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was an English poet with a deep sense of the "shamanic" power of myth. He believed he had uncovered a structural mythic

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12 days ago

aliveandthriving

While teaching, I learn from my student Two classes I teach at a vocational college in Hiroshima are English Literature and Public Speaking. Several students attend both classes and today I'll talk about on

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about 2 months ago

Iroha Karuta 21: Adding Insult to Injury The twenty-first syllable in the iroha hiragana sequence is na (な), represented in both of my two iroha karuta sets by the same proverb: 泣き面に蜂 *Naki ts

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about 2 months ago

If I were Keir Starmer, this is what I'd do... He he, this is the moment when I start to (kind of) "root for" one, the Right Honourable Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, Prime Minister (of the U.K.), and offer him some rich…

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2 months ago

Fat Man at the Station: A Short Story by My 16-Year-Old Self When I was sixteen I left school and spent two years commuting to a College of Further Education to study A levels. The college was in Tonbridge, a

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2 months ago

Iroha Karuta 20b: Of Cats and Coins In my previous post about the Japanese Iroha Karuta I looked at the proverb the Angel™ deck uses for the twentieth syllable in the "iroha" sequence, which

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2 months ago

Rethinking English Seminars: Stories and Games in a Japanese Vocational College Classroom A few years ago, our college decided that second-year students at our vocational college should do seminars rather than continue with the “English Commun

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2 months ago

Iroha Karuta 20a: The Japanese Virtue of Double-Checking Everything It’s been a while since I last posted about the Iroha Karuta here on Hive. In fact, this is my first post in the series this year. I'm chilling out at

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3 months ago

How Fast Can You Earn 1 Bitcoin? ▶️ Watch on 3Speak Here's my latest Satsman-related video looking at a simple question:

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