Category: Everyday Life

Today’s presents for us

It has been getting chilly so I was careful not to catch cold, but I have a chill and think I caught one.
But, unexpectedly, I got something from one of my friends that is good for me now.
It’s a package of ginger candies. And I was surprised after eating one. The usual ginger candies and drinks from local supermarkets just taste sweet; this one, however, was so spicy that I could expect it to have a good effect for my cold.
The company’s note in the package says, ‘During the early stage of your cold, eat udon noodles and soup, take ginger-flavoured medicine, then rest warmly’. This medicine was popular in Osaka in the early Meiji period.
They are candies from Udonya-kaze-ichiya-kusuri Honpo!
They sell this cold medicine, ginger drinks, and ginger candy, but they don’t sell udon noodles…

And when I came back home I discovered something else we got.
I wrote a comment for a Net wine shop. And we got a two litre box of French red wine!
It has been a while since we had such good luck. You’ve just got to apply for something!

I have a cold coming on, but to get two nice things makes it a good day.

– YS, 26 November 2007

26 November 2007