From faunt@netcom.comTue Dec 12 20:55:00 1995 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 09:00:27 -0800 From: Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 To: s2m Subject: From Japan MMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMM MMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMM MMM M MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMM MMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMM MMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMM MMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MXXXXXXXMMMXXXXXXXX/.\\\XXXXXMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMM MMMM MMMMM XXXMXXMXXXXXXXMXXX/.:.\\\\XXXXXXXMMMMM MMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MM XXXXXXXXXXMXXXXXX/:__:.\\\\\XXMXXXXXXXMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM ++++++++++XXXXXX/:| |:.\\\\\\XXMXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXMMMMMMXX ++MM++++++++++++|.|__|.:|: . |XXXXXXXXXXMMXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ++++++++++++++++|:.:.::.| : |XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXMXXXXXXXXXXXXX ++++++++++++++++|.:..:.:|. :| signal station +MMMMM++++ ---|:.::.:.|.____ and observatory ++++ ++++ M M ++++++ ++ SIGNALLING M M M M aaaa rrr sss ++ ++ TO M M M a a rr s + + M M a a r ss + + M M a aa r s + + M M aaa a r sss + + + + The Official Electronic Newsletter of + + The Arthur Ransome Society + + + +Content is the personal opinion and the intellectual property + + of the contributors and does not reflect the opinion of TARS,+ + any other person or group. Any mail received Will Be Publish-+ + able unless Marked Otherwise. This includes senders' identi- + + ties and email addresses. We're not junk emailers! IF YOU DO + + NOT WANT THIS NEWSLETTER please send Reply to that effect. + Distributed by TARS-Net, the E-Mail Group of The Arthur Ransome Society: Admirals: Dave Thewlis <71210.76@compuserve.com>, Doug Faunt George Lang Signaller: Doug Faunt World Wide Web: http://newton.otago.ac.nz:808/~peter/arthurpage.html _________________________________________________________________ Administrivia: Contact the Signaller if you want to be removed or if you change your email address. There will be more s2m mail arriving soon. Message received from Japan: ARCJ GET-TOGETHER from Tokyo issue #1 November 5,1995 Reporting Arthur Ransome Club of Japan (ARCJ) Kanto region monthly meeting. Ahoy! I'm Mikako "Minnow" YAMADA reporting a small meeting of ARCJ from Tokyo. Today, a dozen Japanese members got together in Tokyo. Let me introduce the members: ARCJ has about 30 members living in/around Tokyo. We hold "Tea party" once a month with attendance of ten people or so. I am very happy to have made a contact with a New Zealand Tars member. --Arata "Tycoon" KOBAYASHI I'm Namiho "RED CAP" KOYAMA. I was alone for 15 years myself till I joined ARC. I know how you feel. What you're doing is just plain great barbecued billy-elephant! (A goat is much too small to express our happiness of reaching you.) keep in touch! S&A forever! I'm Yuuri. Whenever you are in trouble, remember "Every cloud has a silver lining, and all text book have a last pages." --Yuri "Yuriko" YAMAMOTO It is really great you have launched TARS-Net. I enjoyed many fine photographs and selected illustrations by AR on its home page. --S "Tea Bay" SENO Captain Nancy's "Shiver my timbers" is next to impossible to translate into Japanese. Several equivalent (Japanese) old expressions of great surprise are used in Japanese translation of S&A stories. One of them sounds "Buriki ni Tanuki ni Okajoki" literary means a tin and a raccoon dog and a steam engine. --Ryuichi "SLATER" KOBAYASHI WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT TODAY (Sat. November 4,1995) 1.Report from Mikako Yamada that she discovered ARCJ page on WWW. 2.A resolution has been reached to send a n E-mail report to Mr. Doug Faunt, of the Kanto region monthly get-together in Tokyo. 3.Skating on a frozen water in the "Japanese Lake District". 4.Reading and discussing each members reports for ARCJ official magazine "1929" on last summer 's fishing and camping event "The Shark Project". 5.Coming "Chinese Afternoon " event where all attendants are required to disguise either in a Chinese costume, or a Ransome costume, to create an afternoon of Missee Lee World. 6.Announcement of coming "smuggling" of TARS goods into Japan by Commander Leslie who will stopping in Yokohama bay at the year end. 73 and TARS Forever, doug