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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Oct. 31, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences It’s a Scream Anyone who travels by plane – and who doesn’t these days – would be sure to get a giggle out of Indonesia AirAsia’s pre-takeoff briefing for passengers on the Bali-Perth run. The Diary had a sample on the latest SEB flit to the… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Oct. 17, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali be Buggered The ruination of Bali at the hands of mass tourism and its high-end glitterati offshoot is a topic that periodically exercises many minds. Those of us who live here notice it chiefly from the strains it imposes on utterly inadequate public infrastructure. But… Continue reading
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The Goddess of Cauliflower Soup
Originally posted on Passionfruitcowgirl: A recipe for Disaster. Oh, this was a great blog! An incredible, witty, passionate and inspirational blog. It was My Best Blog Ever. But I accidentally deleted the whole thing fooling around on WordPress and it is lost forever. Oh, woe! I have been grieving for three solid hours over the… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Oct. 3, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Keep on Rolling It was sad to hear of the death of Andrew Clark, late in September. We’d never met, which was a pity, but his skills in teaching English and his efforts to ensure English-language messages were rendered correctly in Bali – a Sisyphean… Continue reading
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Originally posted on Passionfruitcowgirl: I’ve always had this intuitive feeling that ‘going back’ is a path fraught with disappointment, a sure way to lance the boil of regret that grows quietly on the under-side of nostalgia. In love, in career and travel, ‘going back’ risks curdling all that warm milky romance that time so gently… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Sept. 19, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Tugu Tripping We had a pleasant outing recently, to Hotel Tugu at Batu Bolong where the Rotary Club of Canggu meets and which, on that occasion, was inducting SoleMan Robert Epstone, a fugitive from Seminyak, as a member. It was a horrendous drive to get there… Continue reading
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I like the thought of hapless heroes, though I wouldn’t say “been there, done that” 🙂 Continue reading
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WHIMSY Music to Drive By
Everyone knows I like a jam session. That is, I like it when it’s music that’s involved and it’s not just another Bali traffic snarl. South Bali’s traffic is now legendary for all the wrong reasons. Anyone who doubts this from afar, not having actually experienced the joys of eight lanes of traffic in a… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Sept. 5, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences It’s a Disgrace One morning recently we ventured beyond our usual perambulatory perimeter and out onto the Balangan road. The Distaff, from an earlier vantage point, had spotted someone jogging down a track that leads up a hill on the other side of the road and… Continue reading
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On Why Julian Assange is Just a Bloody Nuisance
The Julian Assange saga is a tiresome example of life in the cyber age. He has managed to capture the attention and – more crucially – the support of many in the chatterverse, by parlaying his expertise as a web-dredger into a self-appointed mission as global saviour. Doubtless this serves his ego. It is very… Continue reading
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