8degreesoflatitude

Richard Laidlaw on things that interest, engage and enrage

  • Silence! Well, Sort Of

    Richard Laidlaw Bali, Mar. 7, 2019 IT’S Nyepi today in Bali. Tomorrow, Mar. 8, 2019 CE, it will be the first day of 1941 in the Balinese Hindu Caka (say Shaka) calendar of 210 days. We’ve been more or less fixtures in Bali since 1926. Our first Nyepi, back in the Roaring Caka Twenties, was […]

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    March 7, 2019
    Bali
    Nyepi, Silent Day
  • Let Him Eat Cake

    RICHARD LAIDLAW Book Review   IT must be very difficult being a political satirist these days. So many politicians, to a man and woman, get underfoot with plots that would outdo a Goon Show episode and leave their writers wringing their hands in frustration: Why couldn’t we think of that? So we owe a deep […]

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    November 19, 2018
    Australia, Book Reviews, Politics
    Farce, Satire
  • A Bitter Blow

    HECTOR’S DIARY   Snippets from his regular diet of worms   THE CAGE Bali Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018   THE second Lombok earthquake, on Sunday evening (Aug. 5), was far worse than its immediate predecessor (Jul. 29), and as finally calculated at seven on the Richter scale the biggest in this area in quite some […]

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    August 9, 2018
    Australia, Bali, Earthquakes, Environment, Indonesia
    Big Garuda, Dale Sanders, Lombok, Merah Putih
  • The Bludge Report

    HECTOR’S DIARY   Titbits from his regular diet of worms   VASSE, Western Australia Monday, Jul. 2, 2018   WE are, we’ve told friends, having a bit of a bludge. One of them very kindly said we deserved to do this. Many others, perhaps, just shrugged, Atlas-like or otherwise. Some others among them may have […]

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    July 2, 2018
    Australia, Bali, Politics
    Batik Air, Black Holes, Bludging, John Gorton, Telstra, Vasse
  • Barely Aware

      HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms   THE CAGE Bali, Monday, Jun. 4, 2018   THE practice among some western tourists here of going around in their beachwear well away from the beach has caused comment before, among the Balinese themselves though they are polite people and chiefly keep silent, and […]

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    June 4, 2018
    America, Art, Bali, Economic Development, Economy, Environment, Indonesia, Politics, U.S.A.
    Balinese Touches, Bikini Bikers, jade richardson, Susi Johnston
  • The Doolally Squad

    HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms   The Cage, Bali Sunday, May 20, 2018     IT’S hard to know what to write about the Surabaya bombings. Doubtless there are those who would advise against writing anything about them. But that won’t do. Perhaps we could start by saying that at least […]

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    May 20, 2018
    Animal Welfare, Australia, Bali, Indonesia, Politics
    Elizabeth Henzell, Indus restaurant, Terrorism, Villa Kitty
  • 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 […]

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    May 10, 2018
    Australia, Bali, Indonesia, Politics
    Ascension Day, Getting Fit, Julian Fellowes, Karl Marx, Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia, Marxism, Phoney Phones, Prabowo Subianto, Queensland, Rudy Giuliani
  • 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 […]

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    April 28, 2018
    Australia, Bali, General Interest, Indonesia, Lombok, Old Friends, Public Administration
    Boat Turn-backs, Candi Dasa, Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Kuta Crawl, Music, Refugees, Safe Ships, Travel, Ubud, VFRs
  • 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. […]

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    April 18, 2018
    Australia, Bali, Environment, Politics
    ASEAN, Bayshore Villas Candi Dasa, Clare Srdarov, Duncan Graham, Hatten Wines, James Massola, Jim K’alleskè, Kagemusha Restaurant, Nita Aartsen, Pauline Hanson, President Joko Widodo, Rubbish, Tegal Sari Ubud, The Three Monkeys, Vincent’s Candi Dasa
  • Cool Aid Needed

    HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his diet of worms   Ubud, Bali Saturday, Apr. 7, 2018     IT should surprise, though of course it doesn’t, that Indonesia’s pique Islamist bother boots brotherhood, the FPI, has taken issue with a poem written nearly two decades ago and recently recited by Sukmawati Sukarnoputri. It laments the way […]

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    April 7, 2018
    Bali, General Interest, Indonesia
    Animal Welfare, Dog thieves, Electioneering, FPI, Poetry Slams, Saltwater crocodiles, Sukmawati Sukarnoputri
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