Australia
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Off We Go
HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms The Cage, Bali | Wednesday, May 10, 2018 IT’S been a while between scribbles here at the Diary’s desk, for all sorts of reasons that really don’t rate a mention. We have heard no complaints, but we’ll ignore that silence and the signals it… Continue reading
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Peak Effort
HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms The Cage, Bali | Saturday, Apr. 28, 2018 DIAN Cahyadi, with whom we had the pleasure of working in Lombok more than decade ago, on a little and now extinct monthly newspaper called the Lombok Times, has achieved a new personal best for 2018. Actually, it’s… Continue reading
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Absolute Rubbish
HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his diet of worms THE CAGE Ubud, Bali Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2018 THE perennial problem of rubbish has yet again raised its head as a topic de jour. The trash that litters Bali’s beaches – it’s not only in the tourist-overburdened south – is something that won’t go away.… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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Hot Rocks
HECTOR’S DIARY Tasty and distasteful morsels from his regular diet of worms THE CAGE Bali Monday, Jan. 22, 2018 MT Agung staged a further demonstration of its volcanic power the other day, with a Strombolian eruption that showed the mountain’s capacity to pick and choose how it goes off. It suddenly blew… Continue reading
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