As for regrettable me it cannot turn to be there

On 2nd March it is what my mum insists on calling mothering sunday (she is upset by "mother's day" - an american import). I am flying to Japan then, so i conducted an experiment.

I put

happy mothering sunday
sorry i cannot be there
love
your loving son
james

into an online translator

then i translated it back

and got this

Assignment #66

Nicky Peacock my friend and sometime collaborator in the North-East, is curating a show of work made according to assignments on Harrell Fletcher & Miranda July's inspired & lovely website learningtoloveyoumore

I did assignment #66.

Stoke Newington, London.

お雇い外国人 O-Yatoi Gaikokujin

The Light Surgeons travel to Sapporo, Hokkaido...

and i travel with them. In just one week we shall be flying to Japan to run a workshop in the northernmost island - Hokkaido - where the Winter is in full grip, snow falls and it doesn't rise above freezing. I have inadequate clothing.