We recently had a wonderful day catching up with Lisa and her gorgeous new baby boy Beau. The weather was absolutely glorious; warm, balmy ...

Georgia made this kite at school at the end of last year. It has been up a few times before, but yesterday the wind was perfect and it soare...

GJ struck again yesterday. He made a sweeping statement of "the rainy season is over".................... This is similar to the t...

I am sure I have mentioned quite a few times that Jakarta is hot, stinkin' hot actually! And it is usually stinkin' hot 365 days a ...

The big wet has started again .......... It has not stopped raining since yesterday. Already the roads are chaotic. School has been let out...

A 5 min deluge flooded Kemang Raya for about 15 minutes this afternoon. Here is Tan Tan on her second day in Jakarta.

Georgia won this candelabra at the school bazaar......She thinks it is divine, me ummmmm not! We compromised on placement, it now decorates ...

The rainy season has started...one day it was still dry and the next rain...and it has rained just about every day since. Grime has washed a...

I have had a few people ask my over the last few weeks if it was cooling down in Jakarta yet? Well in a word....... NO It is always hot in J...

The kids had a great time last week when a huge storm came through. It was like they had never seen rain before...... They were screaming fo...

Friday 18th May We are having a four day weekend this weekend. It was a public holiday on Thursday for Ascension Day and the school decided ...

I have embraced new technology at my niece and nephews request... I now have a My Space account , same name as everything else....jenjenqld....

As we stood looking at the alligator display at Sea world it suddenly occurred to me that different people can interpret things in many ways...

We woke up to another big thunder storm at 4am this morning with more rain. I decided to keep the kids at home again and GJ started to rant....

We awoke on Monday night to the most violent thunder and lightening storm. It was shaking the building with the booming cracks. I have alway...

The floods show no sign of receding. It is very hard to get any information about the current situation here in Jakarta (in English). I am g...

Our devotion to colourful, plastic footwear. I have a major milestone birthday coming up in a few weeks....I am in complete denial about it ...