It’s been a while plus some since the last diary entry and as I’m at the airport in Bali at Made’s Warung looking at a picture of a youthful Mick Jagger who must have visited the Ubud version of the warung sometime in the 1980’s, this seems about as good a time as...
An increasingly hot and languid week, these past few days leave you exhausted by early afternoon. Rainy season isn’t yet upon us but each day feels as though the hot heavens may open at anytime. Walking up to the village store earlier this week a few drops fell...
A couple of weekends back I was pottering around the various back lanes of Lembongan on the moped, as is my wont. Just when you think you’ve discovered every rutted track there’s yet another little path to head down and this island gives up another one of its little...
I posted this to facebook so i thought i’ll put it here for personal posterity Usually i don’t give a toss about actors but i just read that Gambon died and it’s worth recording that at a certain age ( around the same time i saw Black flag,...
I thought to myself the other morning on the moped riding down Jungbatu high street and a group of 30 odd electricity workers walking towards me in their trademark blue helmets, there goes the electricity sometime over the next few days, and so it has. Yesterday...
Somebody managed to phish my card while is was in Bali . It is creating all sorts of problems. Luckily Hamish is coming up in a few weeks time and hopefully with a new card but in the meantime it’s going to be a frugal few weeks. Just discovered a hidden bakery...