Jul, I remember Tan saying there was a R100,000 airport scam tax on exiting Bali …

Geoff, I never realised your middle name was Stallion. I’m curious as to which side of your family this came from. It doesn’t sound Welsh, to me …

Anyway, happy birthday, and enjoy NZ in your Turdmobile.

Is this it?

Here’s the address:

www.helpx.net/

Itís like Wwoof, and has many of the same places, but itís free. You have to register, first, online, to get the full details.

I believe you have a small phial of tapioca or manioc powder in your ‘on the road’ pharmacy which may be just what the doctor ordered.

Is eating pawpaw seeds some sort of generic folk remedy? I understood it was to belay worm infestation, at no more than five seeds a day!

On the art front, I’m waiting to be ‘discovered’.

We’ve just got back from cycling to Arundel via the Downs and and home via Climping beach, where the tide was right out and swimming impossible. The gallery trail was more exhausting than the cycling. At one point, I lost Mama, and asked one of the artists if he had seen her. He suggested this was my big chance (presumably to scarper)!

None of the art was particularly inspiring; but there were some lovely houses.

England collapsed to lose the cricket in a typically abject manner.

August is the equivalent of February here; and going south in NZ is like going north in this hemisphere:ie, it gets colder. Mind you, your spring is just around the corner, whereas we are getting near the end of our summer, curse it.