General Interest

July 5, 2015

Indiana Jones breaks the Great Aussie Silence – the lost story of peace between the races.

Originally posted on Passionfruitcowgirl: The profound and myth-shaking true history of friendship and brotherhood between British invaders and the Aboriginal people whose lives and land they changed forever. This is how you fall in love with history. Murray Arnold’s beautifully told, scrumptiously researched study of Aboriginal-European relations in West Australia’s early outpost of Albany is the book that had… Continue reading

General Interest
April 24, 2015

OOPS

I was briefly hacked on this site with material that many people would find offensive. I don’t think it was fully accessible to people who follow my blog, but if anyone saw anything they considered untoward, my apologies. The problem has been fixed. Continue reading

General Interest
February 1, 2015

Beyond Monogamy: exploring the possibilities of the human heart

Originally posted on No Place For Sheep: ? ? Like many of our abstract sacred moral concepts, the cult of monogamy is reified to the degree that it’s considered “natural” for humans to live within its framework. Never mind that people break out all the time, and that the entirely monogamous relationship exists more in… Continue reading

General Interest
January 27, 2015

Survival of the Sickest – the mess, the cause and how to fix it.

Originally posted on Passionfruitcowgirl: If you’re on the path to peace, you’ll find out pretty quick that those be shark-infested waters! A guide to finding happiness, the Curse of Darwin and who’s who in the spiritual zoo. David Yarrow, http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/26/travel/africa-wildlife-david-yarrow/ Twenty years’ down the road less traveled and that gorgeous, lonely path is now some of the… Continue reading

General Interest
December 11, 2014

A prayer for the beautiful suffering

Originally posted on Passionfruitcowgirl: Could the wounded human love story be the tearing open of the bud to a truly Divine Romance? Huge, hard, kinky, tantra, boots and whips and puppies. Ice creams, gags, wax and weird conjugations of the kundalini…. since when did sensuality form this venomous helix with suffering? And where, on our wounded Earth,… Continue reading

General Interest
May 27, 2014

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser May 28, 2014

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bad Burghers A new Facebook group has appeared in cyberspace, dedicated to curbing crime in Ubud. This is an unpleasant sign of the times. Ubud may be where everyone goes to commune with the fairies, go Vegan, try to find anything that remotely resembles the… Continue reading

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Australia Network, Bali Marathon, Celia Gregory, Coral Reef Art, Majell Hind, Ross Fitzgerald, Ubud Crime, Women Weavers
May 16, 2014

The Day That You Were Born.

Originally posted on Lottie Nevin – The Red House Diaries: Isabel helped to bring you into the world Theo. She was my midwife. When she wasn’t delivering babies, she’d be delivering lambs or calves on her own farm. She was a large, strong, Yorkshire woman, down to earth and practical. I reckoned that if she… Continue reading

General Interest
May 13, 2014

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, May 14, 2014

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Intriguing Art One measure of a country’s social maturity is how it responds to and interacts with those within its society whose culture is a minority expression. Most countries have minority populations. Mostly, let it be said, they do not demonstrate cultural maturity in their dealings… Continue reading

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Arif Billah, Australia-Indonesia Emerging Writers Exchange., Australian Aboringinal Art, Bali Pink Ribbon, Dephine Robbe, Diana Shearin, Gili Islands, Legian Beach Hotel, Melbourne, Ni Ketut Sudiani, Nigel Mason, Ole Beach Bar, Senggigi Lombok, Trash, UWRF 2014, Vyt Karazija
April 29, 2014

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Apr. 30

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences A Shocking Disgrace Someone made a video of quarantine officials killing 31 dogs by cruelly amateurish injection at Gilimanuk on Apr. 15 (it looked like strychnine from the way the dogs died). It doesn’t matter that the video was made by someone who had… Continue reading

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Alistair Speirs, Clean-Up Day, Damon Galgut, Dog Killings, E.M. Forster, Jimbaran Beach Club, Lombok Ikat, Made Wijaya, Muggers, rabies, Robin Osborne, Street Security, Ubud, Villa Sayang, West Timor
April 15, 2014

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Apr. 16, 2014

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Well, We Hit the Roof We got a lovely invitation from the new RIMBA – we think it still qualifies as “new” since it hasn’t yet been open for a year – to attend a svelte bash on Apr. 12 to launch its Unique Rooftop… Continue reading

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Ayana, Bali Hotels Association, Bali Revealed, BIMC, Candi Dasa, Le 48, Pondok Bambu, Rabies (again), RIMBA, Robert Epstone, Sanglah, Schapelle Corby, SoleMen, Trucks and road rules, Unique Rooftop Bar, Vincent’s

About Me

Former journalist now confined by age and indolence to blogging about this and that, now from Western Australia, previously from Indonesia (that’s the 8 degrees in the title) and before that, Queensland. I don’t do a newsletter so ignore that prompt below.