Foreign agents next door
We have two people next door, a father and son. I won’t say where they are from, but they behave unusually. They spend all their time in the guest house, smoking strong cigarettes on the sofa. They only seem leave the place, except for dinner around 1900. Maybe they are foreign agents? 😂
Oddly they went this morning. Surely, they weren’t on holiday. Before one of them left, they told me that the food was not good to eat here.
Real friendships and connections
Over the last few years, I have come to benefit more from real friendships and connections. As I’ve stepped back more and more from my career, I’ve no longer needed to be in circles where people manipulate one another to get what they need due to work. Be it selling business, getting another function to do something we are dependent upon them for, motivating a supplier to deliver. Instead, I have been more in contact with people who want to help, support and share. It’s genuine friendship and love. The result is I feel happy and not lonely, despite most friendships and connections being remote.
I suppose the reason why I want to write, is to support and help others. To give others a choice to read what I write, rather than feel I need to force them to buy what I publish. Of course I want to be recognised for what I write, though where it makes a positive contribution.
Is a nomadic lifestyle an option for me?
Just over one week to go in Bali and then I head north east. I am ready to go somewhere different now. I wonder whether I could live a nomadic lifestyle, moving from place to place every 1 to 2 months? I have all I need in terms of a laptop, a phone, clothes and toiletries. The possessions I need weigh 25kg approximately.
Drinking too much
I am still drinking too much. 3 glasses of expensive (note all wine in Bali is expensive) low quality white wine. How do I stop this or cut it down. Maybe a month or two in Saudi Arabia 😂
Urn and Pendant with Ashes
I am struggling to find an urn I like for Grace’s ashes and a pendant, that I can place around my neck, which will hold her ashes. I thought Bali would be the perfect place to find a pendant … that holds ashes … but no joy so far.
Message to Ian
Message to Ian for always looking out for me …
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you have done. Things have happened to me through my own choice/decisions or for other reasons out of my control, yet you always looked after me. It’s more than just giving me some well paid work. You also helped me feel so much more confident and independent as person. That’s why I have been able to keep moving forwards. I know you say I am good at what I do, though you foster and enable that to happen (I didn’t use ChatGpt).
There will be no more calls with Steve @ the pub, Juan going nuts, Sue Harding making new charges up, Garry Worrall telling us nothing is possible, Jason Tierney running people over, our arse of commercial BT friend reacting wars, Phil Harding being disappointed, the women from Daisy doing IPT installs making us smile😊, Reg doing ‘deals’ with BT, Darren travelling on Friday to his front room, the Xantus guy who stayed in a hotel nearby and turned up late every morning, Chris Smith making the seemingly simple complicated, the wonderful partnership of Renee and Renato 😢, Geraldine!, Cagney and Lacey (Pam and Jody)…………
Thank you again for everything and take care.
D.
