"Declan Murphy" <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4069122D.2060009@hotmail.com...

> I wouldn't worry too much. I suspect Ed just wanted a bit of peace and
> quiet and a cuppla irritant free weeks before the TEEMING HORDES INVADE
> his corner for the apricot blossoms. The last thing needed in such times
> are plagues of pollies with screeching speakers.

They work in shifts. First the idiot tourists act like tourists during the
day, and as soon as the roads have cleared, the sounds of ONEGAISHIMASU and
YOROSHIKU echo off the mountains and drive my dogs crazy. I don't know which
is worse. The Japanese who slip into tourist mode or the politicians.