Douglas, back again as promised, with a more recent video of the topic of rice. If you live in the same place for most of your life, you tend to get used to your environment and stop noticing everyday things. When a stranger comes into your neighbourhood they are likely to notice the things that you no longer see. Quite often, when a stranger asks a local person, “What is that over there?”, a usual answer is likely to be, “I don’t know. I haven’t really noticed it before.” Even after 20 years in Japan my gaijin-eyes still find interesting things that my Japanese neighbours seldom pay attention to. Here Megumi and I take a look at some Japanese rice farmers as the till their paddy fields and then plant rice seedlings in the soft muddy bottom. We have used a mixture of footage taken both from ground level and from above. Regards, Douglas and Megumi