Month: March 2018

• 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 […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  March 31, 2018

  Art, Australia, Bali, Indonesia

  Aussie cricketers, Cry-babies, Fertility rites, jade richardson, Jewel Topsfield

• 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 […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  March 25, 2018

  Australia, Politics

  Immigrants, Not a Real Aussie

• 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 […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  March 24, 2018

  Australia, Bali, Indonesia, Politics

  Ngurah Rai Airport, Peter Dutton, Seasons, South African farmers

• The Figjam Factor

  HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms   The Cage, Bali Friday, Mar. 16, 2018   BALI is home to many oddities. We refer in this instance to those found in the expatriate community. Readers will recall that someone by the name of Terry Brockhall chose to defame two former expatriates recently on […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  March 16, 2018

  Animal Welfare, Bali, Festivals, Food, Indonesia, Tourism

  Bar-room Lawyers, Chris Osses, Expatriates, FIGJAM, Frederick Dillon, Fundraising, Ipong Wayan, Mt Agung, Pay-By-Views, Terry Brockhall, Uang Kecil

• Silence is Golden

  HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms   The Cage, Bali Wednesday, Mar. 7, 2018   IT’S Nyepi in ten days (Saturday, Mar. 17), the annual day of silence in Bali, by the island’s traditional Hindu Dharma religious and customary rites. This requires a twenty-four-hour period in which no work is performed, no […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  March 7, 2018

  Bali, Nyepi

  Barnyard Barnaby, Former Friends, Mara Wolford, Quality control, Surfing, The Hayseed Hemlifter, Unarchipelagic

• 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 […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  March 3, 2018

  Bali

  Facebook geeks, Juvenile drivers