I can only think of Japan having seen that pidgeon dating game :D

Fancy boots! Somehow made me think of 'Alice in Wonderland', but I'm probably just weird.

*ding ding ding*

I could probably be very much at home in Japan. ^_^ Not much by way of a beer industry, and probably none by way of cider, but on the other paw, when you progress up the sake scale from the basic stuff, you find some works of quite astounding complexity. And then there's sushi.. =:9

I really ought to find a decent Japanese course sometime. Even if I never progress beyond the basics, it never hurts to expand one's linguistic repertoire. (I really ought to dust off the French, too - that's lain mostly unused for ages)

Oo.. now there's a fun costuming idea. ^_^ I wonder if I can find some similar boots in SL - I've already got a cute gothic number that would go with them. And being a snowshoe hare would just add to the confusion. =:)

You're a cider lover, eh? I must admit that since the very first time I've had cider I became a fan as well :D

So long as you devote time and keep it regular you can go much further than just a basic level of a language, even Japanese. I've studied German for 9 years, but don't really know it well - I plan to sign up for a course after I will have finished school. Maybe Russian too, as I used to speak the language rather well as a kid.

Ah, some good stuff, I hope? ^_^ Not too far from where I was at the last gig, there was a farm that happened to stock a dizzying array (perhaps literally =:) of ciders from around the country - Somerset, Montgomeryshire, Kent, Herefordshire, Devon, and more - all arranged down the length of a former barn, on four levels of shelving, with dry at one end, sweet at the other. Probably over a hundred, and that's not even counting the perries and blends, and all the bottled ciders and local beers too, and various delectable distillates. It was truly a dangerous place to visit. ^_^

And then there was the butcher's barn adjacent, with some of the best fillet steak you've known, and home-made sausages..

They don't offer mail order, but Orchard Hive & Vine do, with delivery a ferpectly reasonable flat-rate £11.75, regardless of the order size. Not desperately cheap, but the selection is good, mostly from small orchards in their locality, along with some larger growers, such as Dunkerton's, whose Black Fox I can recommend, and which can be found in some supermarkets, including Waitrose, if there's one within reach. (I suspect their offerings may vary locally, but if they carry Orchard Pig, or Ermie & Gertie's, those are also well worth trying - quite strongly flavored, both, definitely representative of farmhouse cider)

I suppose Russian would be a comfortable step, given Polish belongs to the same family of languages, even if with the tweak of Cyrillic. =:) I certainly got along well with French, and managed passably in Latin as well. Even had a quick pass at Russian, but only for a few months - we took the French exam early, so we got the form master giving us Russian instead. Much fun - he was a particularly good teacher, who conveyed passion for his subjects. (He took over a couple Latin classes for a few days, while the usual teacher was away - so we got Latin delivered in a Muscovite accent. Brilliant!)