Friday was a bit of a hectic day.....It is hard to get from one place to another and still be able to drop the kids at school, pick up Ben a...

I read this great book today. It was deceptively simple and short, but I think it will stay with me for a long time. Eddie is a grizzled war...

The school tailor has finished the kids uniforms at last, the delay was due to the flooding. Here they all are in their new uniforms. Ben ha...

I received an email late yesterday from the Indonesia partner of our removalists . The Australian branch have managed to make a major error ...

I am exhausted I taught the entire class of combined grade 2 and 3 ALL day, by myself, with all the planning and preparation. Then I took ou...

Today I caught a taxi from the Hotel Kristal to the closest Carrefours supermarket. I paid 150 000RP ($21.00) for the 6 min ride.........Yes...

Happy Chinese New Year In a few weeks GJ is off to Singapore for the last session of his management program. It looks like he will leave bef...

This is the first purchase for our new home. This is a symbolic husband and wife mask in a black wood. Apparently if you are married and yo...

Last weekend we were at the kids favourite shop getting chocolate milkshakes when I glanced at the next outlet. The shop was a Soy milk dri...

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 ...

We received our new car last night and met our new driver. Mr Fadi is the brother-in-law of the driver we had on our trip last year. He seem...