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A Warrant Officer and a Gentleman
OVER New Year I heard a sad piece of news. Bill Cunneen had died. The name may mean little to most people. It means the world to me. He was some 12 years my senior, of a respectable enough vintage to shuffle off. But it’s always hard to take when someone you know and Continue reading
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Messing About in Boats
HECTOR’S DIARY His diet of worms and other non-religious fare Bali, Jan. 4, 2017 WE have a lovely friend, a former media colleague who goes by the pen name of The Global Goddess. She has a tough life, poor thing. She’s forever flitting off from Brisbane, her home city, to go to distant places Continue reading
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Hello, January
Originally posted on Lottie Nevin – The Red House Diaries: New Years Eve ? Despite my best intentions, the festive red knickers that I’d ear marked for last night’s celebrations never did make it out of the knicker draw. Neither did I get round to making the lentil stew and, worst of all, the lucky… Continue reading
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Passing Out Parade
He went to open an art show I’m just turning 72. I don’t expect short of an accidental interaction with Fate that I shall die particularly soon; but you’d have to be an incredible optimist to assume at that age that you’ll notch up anything like another seven decades. And you’d have to be Continue reading
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Good on You, Renae
HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali Dec.7, 2016 THE indomitable Lizzie Love, who we’ve always thought would have made a first-rate Flapper if she’d been around in the Roaring Twenties last century, is a very fine friend to many in Bali. In particular her interest in prisoners in Continue reading
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Book Review: Cove
Originally posted on Tim Hannigan: The first echo is there in the physical form of the book itself: a slender pinch of pages, little thicker than a floor tile; a thing to be handled carefully as if it might break, and to be read with a delicate dabbing, like eating some rare dessert. The next… Continue reading
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On Hanson’s claims that women lie about sexual assault
Originally posted on No Place For Sheep: Michaelia Cash, Minister for Women, hugs Senator Pauline Hanson ? My default attitude to Pauline Hanson is that my life is too short to spend much time contemplating her, however, an interview on Sunrise (no, I’m not linking) in which she gloated about the Trump victory and sputteringly… Continue reading
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Dystopian Delights
HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali Nov. 9, 2016 THERE were no visibly ruffled kebayas at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival session featuring American author Lionel Shriver on Oct. 29. No one loudly rattled their worry beads or furiously flounced out. This was in stark contrast to the Continue reading
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That Other Kuta
HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Lombok / Bali Oct. 26, 2016 IT’S quieter and rather less crowded than Kuta Bali, though it has grown a little. There’s something that resembles a main street with an Indomaret supermarket and a few other junior emporiums. The warungs along the beach, those Continue reading
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