We live in a world of dishonesty. It’s awful but true. I wish I had thicker skin to cope with it. Sadly, three of the most significant men in my… [Continue Reading]
Category: Gili Island stories
A new home in just three months! Really?
I’m living in The Land of Three Months, aka Indonesia. That’s how long everything seems to take here. I’m told it will again take three months to get my next… [Continue Reading]
Yogi shemogi
It was my friend’s first ever yoga class. I’d been encouraging her for a while and, even though she was still apprehensive, she’d finally said yes. We went together on… [Continue Reading]
Rubbish!!
Sadly not everything about ‘my’ beautiful island is idyllic. This time of year it gets pretty hot and humid, and all year round there’s plagues of pesky ants, there’s a… [Continue Reading]
Mind your Ps & Fs
Here’s a bit of a lighthearted (I hope!) read about Indonesia… The Indonesian language is actually not the first language for Indonesian people. Their native tongue will be Balinese, or… [Continue Reading]
Childhood freedoms
Forty years ago. One October, when I was six, my family left Holland and arrived in Australia, a land of salty air and big skies, plenty of space and warm… [Continue Reading]
Roughing it
Hey friends 😊 It’s been a while since I posted anything – been preoccupied for the last few months doing a couple of short online writing courses. Very time consuming… [Continue Reading]
Ramadan, and the ironies of life
It’s Ramadan time and the mosque’s speaker systems have been belting out the calls to prayer louder and more often than normal. Last year I was in Australia through Ramadan… [Continue Reading]
Gili Meno-pause
This one’s for the women out there. And of course, also for you men that care about women. To start with, a travel warning for women coming to Indonesia. Do… [Continue Reading]
The little things – a simple life
Ah, the little THINGS SomeThing I said often in a couple of earlier chapters in my life was: “I could quite easily live in a tent!”. If it meant being… [Continue Reading]