Out the window

At breakfast today I read that there are plans to put CCTV cameras around apartment blocks in Singapore, to see which residents are guilty of throwing things out of windows. There have been complaints about how this will invade people's privacy - it might make them angry enough to throw something out the window. I think it shows a lamentable lack of education in Singapore.

A salutary lesson about car hire in Japan

This morning was a bit difficult; after waking up with hair that appeared to have exploded, and a mouth like dessicated coconut, I had a nutritious breakfast of French fries and croissants. I didn't boast too much about how I'd got a taxi home last night, rather than walk for a couple of miles from the station to the flickering beacon of the ANA Gate Tower Hotel. Then we went over to the airport to pick up our hire car.

Unfortunately, to hire a car in Japan it's a legal requirement to have a Japanese translation of your license.