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Jakartan Beauty: Butterfly
I got up early this morning and was painting by 7am. By 9.30am I’d got to the point where I needed to step back from it a bit and have a breather. The apartment is very hot and airless but we are lucky...
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The Bali House Paintings Pete Nevin
Reblogged from studio nevin: I don't need to nag anymore. It just seems to happen as if by like magic. That's my Boy!
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A Bird’s Eye View
I’ve been extremely fortunate to have had the chance to travel to some extraordinary places in my life. In my gap year after leaving school, I spent 6 months in Paris before then travelling to Kenya...
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Is This A Ghost?
One of my daughters, Serena, and her friend Kalisha are staying with us at the moment. Aside from the pleasure of their company, it also gives me a perfect excuse to go off exploring with them and...
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Fish Market, Jimbaran. Bali
You’ve been spared a rant today. It was going to be my first official on-line rant ever, and I was getting geared up and really looking forward to it until I realised that it’s Saturday. Saturdays are...
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What A Waste
One of the most shocking scenes in recent TV drama was played out in an episode of Madmen a couple of seasons back. Unusually for Madmen, it didn’t include the usual suspects of homophobia, sexism, or...
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Pura Besakih (Mother Temple) Or ‘A Car Filled With Wayans’
The Irishman and I have become rather lazy recently; rather than spending our weekends visiting temples, and learning about the rich culture and heritage of Bali, we’ve taken to slobbing around at home...
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Just When You Thought The Coast Was Clear….
…….It’s not, because I went back to Jimbaran Fish Market this morning. As you may have gathered from last Saturdays post, Jimbaran Fish Market is fast becoming a bit of a feature in my Balinese...
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Let’s Play Doctors And Nurses
I’m writing this post with a bit of toilet paper hanging out of my ear. I don’t normally write posts in this way, it’s not really my style, but today is different because I’ve got an ear infection and...
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Goa Lawah (Bat Temple)
About halfway to Goa Lawah (Bat Temple) there was a loud hissing noise followed by an ominous thud and clunking sound every couple of seconds. Pak Wayan (our taxi driver) was busy rabbiting away to...
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A Dire Experience
Pak Wayan has either had an unexpected windfall or, we’ve been paying him far too much for his taxi services; I suspect it is the latter. It was the gleaming, dent free, almost brand-new car that came...
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Pak’s New Boat
A couple of days ago Irishman and I were sat drinking coffee at the kitchen table and discussing plans for a snorkeling and fishing trip with Theo. Nyoman was in the garden watering the plants and...
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The Ones That Got Away…..
Continued from Pak’s New Boat: With Pak’s new boat turning out to be something of a fantasy, and my men folk looking decidedly crest fallen, things weren’t looking too promising for our planned day of...
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A Carrot, A Stick, and A Monkey
Pura Luhur Uluwatu is a beautiful temple on the southern most tip of Bali. Perched at the top of steep cliffs, it’s spectacular location several hundred feet above the crashing waves of the Indian...
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‘The Higher A Monkey Climbs……’
There are many proverbs and sayings associated with monkeys, but in my book the outright winner has to be the ancient Chinese proverb ‘The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its arse’ (or ass...
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A Bright Idea
There has been a major paint job going on at the Bali house. It wasn’t a sudden rush of blood to the head, nor a moment of madness after too much Bintang that sent us off to Ace Hardware a couple of...
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A Farting Woman & A Beautiful Temple
Pura Ulun Danu is a stunning temple. It’s one of the most iconic of the Balinese temples and also one of the most popular due to its beautiful location on the shores of Lake Bratan. At 1,200 metres...
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Ten Days In Pictures
The sheer excitement of seeing a random penis last week on the way to the airport, and then my abject failure at capturing it on camera has made me even more determined to document the past 10 days....
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Nelly The Elephant Packed Her Trunk…
I find it hard to believe that it’s almost a year since the Irishman and I rocked up in Jakarta. When our plane touched down on Indonesian soil nearly 12 months ago it marked not only the start of our...
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In A Padi
There can’t be many people who visit Bali and leave without taking at least a couple of photos of the padis. These iconic rice fields are part and parcel of Balinese life and they not only sustain and...
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Fisherman At Dusk
This is a still taken from a film that I made at Jimbaran, in Bali a few months ago. At around 4pm each afternoon, the beach suddenly comes to life as fishermen drag their boats down from the boat...
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Monsters, Temples, & Towers of Fruit
Yesterday was a special day in the village. The temple in Batur Sari, Bale Agung, was celebrating Ngusaba Nini. This colourful event takes place annually and if I’ve got my facts straight and nothing...
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Jimbaran – Morning, Noon & Night.
I’ve been to Jimbaran many times over the past few months. I love the fish market and most Saturdays you can find me there bucket in hand, buying fish for the weekend or stocking up the freezer if we...
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Straddling Gaia’s Girdle.
Stunning batiks. I think Mr Matisse would love these too. The calm before the storm. Sunday afternoon in Bali. Flying all over the world. Peanut seller, Pasar Mayestik Jakarta. Working at the kitchen...
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Me And My Shadow
Here is a small selection of photographs that I’ve taken over the past year. Some you may have seen before, some are new. I often take a photograph purely because of the shadows, I love how light...
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A Potted History Of Indonesia & Why I Love It
You would need more than a lifetime to fully explore the length and breadth of Indonesia, this extraordinary country in S.E Asia that has been my home since leaving London in 2011.When our plane...
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Through My Eyes
I arrived in Bali at 9am this morning after an early start. It’s now the afternoon, Buddha Bar is playing on the iPod, the smell of Nag Champa incense is filling the air, and until just a minute ago, I...
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Cowboys & Cisterns
When Irishman and I first started stepping out together I had no idea that his bathroom was to become the bane of my life. The first weekend that I stayed at his house, he told me that under no...
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How Do You Pee? Or Poo?
I was out grocery shopping this afternoon and suddenly, half way down aisle 3 I realised that I needed to pee badly. Seriously badly. I abandoned my shopping trolley and went in search of a toilet. It...
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Hoppy Easter
Languishing in the bath this morning I spotted this tiny, intrepid toad climbing up the wall of the outside shower. I clambered out of the bath dripping wet, and slid across the marble floor to the...
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Métis, Monet & Nelumbo nucifera
On Saturday evening, I was treated to dinner out by friends who have been staying with me here in Bali. Donning our best bibs and tuckers we headed over to Métis in Seminyak, arriving just before it...
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Papa Razzi
A putrid odour has been emanating from a corner of the kitchen. I first became aware of it last night as I was making supper. On first whiff I was convinced that it was rats piss; Old Rolando has been...
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Beautiful People
The following photographs were taken over a period of 24 hours. Half of them in Bali, and the other half on Gili Trawangan, an island just off Lombok, Indonesia. I have got over my hang up of asking...
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Taming Of The Shrew
I’m now back in Bali after a glorious 4 day visit to the Gili Islands. Before I get cracking with my next Gili post, I thought you might like to see who rocked up in our kitchen yesterday evening. As...
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Happy, Smiley People
On Saturday morning we made our usual pilgrimage to the fish market at Jimbaran. Little did any of us know that a few hours later a Lion Air plane was going to crash into the sea, just a few 100 metres...
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All Fur Coat And No Knickers
I had THE perfect opportunity to take a photograph of a naked man on Sunday and I fluffed up. The invitation was there and I declined. So much for the boldness that I always hark on about, in this...
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Bunga Ratna Or Purple Friday
I took these photographs earlier this morning. I was in a sulk waiting for the rats to finish having noisy sex in the cupboard under the kitchen sink. All night long they had kept me awake playing kiss...
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Testicles And Beaches, A Saturday In Indonesia
I had a rush of blood to the head yesterday and decided to purchase this new theme, MyStyle from WordPress. I thought it looked fabulous on the WP site and wanted a slice of the action. With just the...
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Reaching Out And Connecting
These days it’s not unusual for me to find emails from people that I’ve never met in my in-box. They are not spam messages; these are from people who have found me through the Contact Me button on...
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I Spy With My Little Eye
It looks like the rainy season is now behind us. Apart from a short, dramatic downpour the other night, the regular pattern of rain every afternoon has come to halt. I’m no weather girl but I’m...
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Wish You Were Here?
I wrote about waste, pollution and plastic almost a year ago. Here is the link. What A Waste Nothing has improved since then, in fact if anything the problem has got even worse. The two beaches on...
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Life’s A Beach
It is a hard life being a fisherman or woman here on Bali. The following pictures were all taken at Jimbaran.
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Real Bali
Away from the busy tourist beach resorts of the south and the choked streets of Ubud there lies a very different Bali. Here there are no bars, restaurants, hotels or hawkers. Just miles and miles of...
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Lost In Bali
Yesterdays trip back to the kampung turned into something of a family outing. Wayan’s 83 year old mother, Wayan and her 17 year old son, wanted to join us on the outing. And why not? The more the...
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Two Men And Their Cocks
I met two men yesterday. Within 5 minutes of being introduced to me they’d got out their cocks and were proudly showing them off . Anywhere else in the world this might seem rather forward but this is...
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Inspirational Women
Down by the river the ladies of the kampung bathe themselves and wash their clothes. They were very sweet-natured and kindly allowed me to take these photos. It was an intimate moment as the young...
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Arachnids & Kids
Having been spoilt rotten and spent the past 8 weeks in Bali, it’s a bit of a rude shock now being back in Jakarta. The two places are as different as chalk and cheese. Each have their good and bad...
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Rare Sighting Of Unicorn In Bali
“Visitors flocked to the Kintamani area of Bali yesterday after hearing reports that a unicorn had been sighted earlier in the day” “We are told that the unicorn caused quite a stir. Babies screamed,...
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