Month: March 2018
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Fair Sets You Off
HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms The Cage, Bali Saturday, Mar. 31, 2018 LAND of the fair go, mate! That’s what they say. Hector’s amanuensis got into trouble during the week, because he’d dared to write about a friendly little warning he got not to diss the Aussies, over […]
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We Have Been Warned
Sunday, Mar. 25, 2018 SOMETHING happened the other day that caused me to think deeply about the political direction Australia is taking. It was a disturbing incident; it was nothing to worry about personally, but it gave me pause. It did so especially because it came in the course of an exchange of […]
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Drawing the Line 1
HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms The Cage, Bali Saturday, Mar. 24, 2018 A PHOTO appeared yesterday – we saw it in the social media, which is a thing these days – of a packed crowd, said to be more than 3,000, though numbers are always difficult to estimate, of […]
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The Landlord Line
HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms The Cage, Bali Saturday, Mar. 3, 2018 A FRIEND who is in the poor but thoroughly sensible expat cohort ignored by the hyped media that surrounds the other chief cohorts – the party expat and the good works expat – has just enjoyed another […]