About Tower Tales

• What is Tower Tales all about then? Nice of you to ask. It started life as the musings of a British ex-journalist who found himself running an English school, Tower English, in 2007 from his front room (behind the yellow sign above) in Abiko - 20 miles East of Tokyo. This blog's sole purpose was to keep him from losing his marbles by flexing his writing muscle.
  
• What's changed? Not a lot actually. But the blog has adopted the mission of informing and entertaining readers about life in Japan from the point of view of an outsider with a young family, with occasional jaunts into commentary on UK and US politics.
• Oh, so that means making fun of your host country? No, well... only occasionally, to be honest. It's too easy to point at the differences between Japan and the West and conclude Japan has a screw loose. Where there is hypocrisy or irony, Tower Tales is there, but equally when Japan has it right, Tower Tales is happy to say so. 
• Am I free to comment, write or suggest posts? Yes, wherever possible guest views are featured and comment is welcome, provided it is vaguely relevant, interesting, amusing or at least not overly insulting. Add your own comments to any post, or e-mail at patricksherriff@gmail.com with your own ideas.
• Can I cut and paste material or link to posts here for my own site? Yes, within reason. Feel free to link away. As for using pictures or quotes, you can, but only if you attribute them to Tower Tales. You may not pass off anything here as your own work or try to make money from TT's occasional flashes of originality, unless there's something in it for us.
• Why don't you talk more about your school, Tower English? There's a time and blog for everything. The school's blog is here.
• I really enjoy Tower Tales. Can I send you large sums of money? Well, OK in unmarked, non-sequential notes if you insist. Or even better, you could make the odd digital donation, no matter how small, to charity appeals which grace these pages occasionally.