Month: February 2018

• The Elegant Stomping Dance

  SEAN DORNEY Veteran ABC journalist, former Kumuls captain, and all-round good bloke “Roast” Dinner, Brisbane, Feb. 24, 2018. I wrote these words for the occasion and hope someone got a giggle out of them. By all accounts, it was a rollicking night. Sean and Pauline, early arrivals (as is only proper for the guests of […]

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  February 25, 2018

  Old Friends

  “Roast” dinners, Motor Neurone Disease, Pauline Dorney, Sean Dorney

• Straight to the Point

  HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms   The Cage, Bali Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018   IT’S magic what you can do these days with a talking smart phone. The other day we had to drive into Denpasar – a strange bit of it with which we are unfamiliar – and it was […]

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  February 18, 2018

  Australia, Bali, Books, Bureaucracy, Festivals, Health, Indonesia, Public Administration, Rabies, Ubud, Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Volcanoes, Writing

  Australian politics, Barnaby Joyce, Ethics and Office, Health studies, Janet DeNeefe, Mt Agung

• Excrescences, Etc.

  HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his diet of worms The Cage, Bali Monday, Feb. 5, 2018   MANY foreigners come to Bali for its unique culture and some choose to live here. The people with whom one wishes to associate are in that cohort. Some may be misguided, but that’s OK. The flowers of Eastern mysticism […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  February 5, 2018

  Art, Australia, Bali, Indonesia

  2018 Ubud Food Festival, Autonomous Neolithic Province, John Keir, Mt Agung, Naked Nymphs