Tag: Mt Agung

• The Figjam Factor

  HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms   The Cage, Bali Friday, Mar. 16, 2018   BALI is home to many oddities. We refer in this instance to those found in the expatriate community. Readers will recall that someone by the name of Terry Brockhall chose to defame two former expatriates recently on…

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  March 16, 2018

  Animal Welfare, Bali, Festivals, Food, Indonesia, Tourism

  Bar-room Lawyers, Chris Osses, Expatriates, FIGJAM, Frederick Dillon, Fundraising, Ipong Wayan, Mt Agung, Pay-By-Views, Terry Brockhall, Uang Kecil

• Straight to the Point

  HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms   The Cage, Bali Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018   IT’S magic what you can do these days with a talking smart phone. The other day we had to drive into Denpasar – a strange bit of it with which we are unfamiliar – and it was…

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  February 18, 2018

  Australia, Bali, Books, Bureaucracy, Festivals, Health, Indonesia, Public Administration, Rabies, Ubud, Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Volcanoes, Writing

  Australian politics, Barnaby Joyce, Ethics and Office, Health studies, Janet DeNeefe, Mt Agung

• 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…

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  February 5, 2018

  Art, Australia, Bali, Indonesia

  2018 Ubud Food Festival, Autonomous Neolithic Province, John Keir, Mt Agung, Naked Nymphs

• Janet’s World

  HECTOR’S DIARY     Titbits from his regular diet of worms   THE CAGE Bali Monday, Jan. 29, 2018     THAT’S Bali, of course, Janet DeNeefe’s home for more than thirty years. But like most Australians who live overseas or spend a great deal of time beyond the moat, she retains an umbilical link…

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  January 29, 2018

  Australia, Bali, Politics, Trade, U.S.A.

  Australian Honours, Davos, Drones, Groucho Marx, Margaret Barry, Mt Agung, Mungo MacCallum

• Degrees of Idiocy

  HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare THE CAGE Bali Sunday, Dec. 24, 2017 Degrees of Idiocy THE President of the Republic, Joko Widodo, familiarised here in the Indonesian way as Jokowi, has just visited Bali. Miraculously, the beaches appeared clear of the middens of muck that despoil them year round,…

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  January 4, 2018

  Bali, Bureaucracy, Environment, Indonesia, Lombok, Travel, Volcanoes

  AlIikai, Amanda Zsebik, Christmas, Happy New Year, Indonesian Island Sail, Mt Agung

• Living with Vulcan

  HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Oct. 11, 2017   ONCE upon a time, the activity of a volcano in a distant domestic backyard from which one is temporarily absent would have been something relayed at intervals by news reports, or not at all. Its inactivity ahead of anticipated action would have been even harder to detect…

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  October 12, 2017

  Bali, EU, Travel, Ubud

  Autumn lunches, Information/Misinformation, Mendicants, Mt Agung, UWRF 2017, Vasco da Gama