Well-meaning kitch

Another what-have-I-got-in-the-house-I-can-blip entry today.

This little fella was given to me by a Japanese couple I met at a wedding. As soon as he came out of the box, he stepped smartly off his little wooden base and threatened to topple over and shatter into a million little bits of porcelain. Since then, he's been gathering dust (quite literally) in the must-fix-sometime pile, so count this as a minor reparation.