Tag: journal
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Merry Christmas! And A Very Happy New Year!
MERRY CHRISTMAS and a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL! Pedro and I are flying back to London tomorrow evening! We are so excited to see our children, and can’t wait to give them all big hugs. It’s been too long away, and we’ve missed them madly. We are looking forward to getting into […]
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Driving The Vicar
About 13 years ago, I moved with my first husband and our five young children to a small, pretty village on the edge of the Dales in North Yorkshire. We had previously lived in a remote farmhouse high up on the windswept moors and I tended and ran a 40-acre Organic smallholding. We kept goats, […]
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Fly Me To The Moon
Pedro and I have just had our very first ‘Bona Fide’ visitor to stay. Professor Hedley Roberts from the Uk. Up until Hedley’s visit four days ago, our only visitors to date have been unwelcome ones; –We’ve had to content ourselves up until now with entertaining various creepy crawlies, cockroaches and mosquito’s, so it has […]
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A Long Walk Through the Padi Fields
Up until a few days ago, I knew absolutely nothing about how rice is grown and harvested. The only thing that I did know,was that rice tastes good, and that it is also a staple part of the diet here in Indonesia. It is eaten at every meal of the day and there is even […]
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The Cosmic Garden
We have now spent 3 days in Paradise and if I had to sum up Bali in just one word, it would be – Intoxicating. Having spent the last month in Jakarta – the great, grey megalopolis that is now our home, the joy of spending a few days here is indescribably wonderful! If you’ve […]
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Irma, My Douche
Since I started writing this blog 3 weeks ago, I have become an inveterate note taker. For someone who has previously, only on the very rarest occasions, written stuff down, this is quite a volte-face. I have never written ‘lists’ shopping or otherwise. Instead I’ve chosen to juggle a hundred million things in my head, […]
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The Rain Before it Falls (after Jonathan Coe)
Bird’s Eye View Central Jakarta The Tropical Monsoons have arrived. Their imminent approach each afternoon is palpable as the skies begin to blacken angrily and the stagnant, humid air is stirred up by the sudden wind. The tall palms rustle and shake like girls in grass skirts as the first rain drops start to fall. […]
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A Right Couple of Muppets
Last Sunday morning whilst Pedro was eating his breakfast ( I’d love to say that he was tucking into tropical fruit salad (but that’s not really very Pedro) and drinking fresh Javan Coffee, but the truth is now that we are living in Jakarta, bacon is a bit of a pig to get hold of […]
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