Tag: SoleMen
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Dec. 23, 2015
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences A Christmas Story This week we observe the official birthday – though of course its date is wholly notional – of one of Islam’s leading saints, the nabi Isa al-Mahdi, whom Muslims also honour as the Messiah. In the Christian rite, it is Christmas, the…
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, May 13, 2015
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences The Full Farce of the Law Sometimes a diarist in the Pancasila Archipelago finds himself wishing he were Archie Clark-Kerr, the British ambassador in wartime Moscow famous for finding himself grateful for any little shafts of light that came his way from heaven. He memorialized one…
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HECTOR’S DIARY, Bali Advertiser, May 1, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences You’ve Got to Have Sole We gate-crashed a good meeting recently at the immensely comfortable – for superannuated diarists it is also immensely unaffordable – Semara Luxury Villa Resort on the Ungasan cliffs. Well gate-crashed is perhaps too strong a term: Robert Epstone of…
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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…
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