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So I thought I would post the obligatory picture of my feet with the changing leaves around them (so cliche, I know) but I can't help myself!

As the weather has got increasingly colder, buying a kotatsu has been getting higher and higher on the to do list. For brand new ones they're pretty expensive and even though I didn't really mind buying new I was hoping to save a bit of money and go to a second hand shop. Luckily my boss knew where to go and thankfully offered to take us in her car so we wouldn't have to trudge the long walk back carrying the table berween the two of us. Now if you didn't know a kotatsu is in my opinion and essential item needed for staying alive in the Japanese winters as the appartments don't have central heating. It's bascially a coffee table with a heater attached underneath, you put a thick cover over the frame and then place the table top on top, then you sit around it tucked up and cosy. The only problem with kotatsus is that they seem to instigate a drug induced high, it's so warm being under one of these things but it makes me dumb and I can barely form sentences when I'm sitting at it, let alone write blog posts (so I apologise for anything that does not make sense).

I am never coming out from under this thing!

Vicki
xoxo