it's raining

it's cool and has been steadily raining for hours.  i love it

i was excited to find a link to my favourite indonesian tv channel yesterday.  too cool.
no subtitles but lots of those crazy soap operas and i just love the commercials.  the music channel has awful reception so not really watchable.  sound is ok though.  the site also has some web cams of traffic around bali but it's fairly boring after the first minute.  it rained there yesterday apparently. and a bonus is the road traffic cams all over bali.  it's too fab

my son and i fixed the shadecloth out the back.  it's patchy but practical and shades the back of the house (not upstairs) quite well.  we are going to put some auto sprinklers in which will be good.

i'm going up to pick up cookie to stay for a day or two. we may bake a cake.  :)  i had nasty migraine last week and missed work.  much better now and i will go back to work on wednesday.  :(   i've been looking at old pics i've put on picasa over the years.  mostly of bali.  i've booked for 10 days in cairns for may and may not get to bali this year.  i'm missing it like mad.  yesterday, i watched the traffic cams, drank my bali coffee and sat outside waiting for my son and g/daughter to arrive.  someone close by started cooking and the most fabulous smells wafted my way.  garlic and chili frying.  just like bali.  :)  all i needed was the smell of clove cigarettes and incense, insane traffic, ten thousand scooters and i would have been set.

i've put these photos up before i know, but here they are again

enjoy your day wherever you are

hello

a few things have happened since my last blog.  let me fill you in...
i got my galaxy s2 at last.  i know it's bad to like a phone so much.  the only thing i don't like is the way it displays my contacts.  no biggie.  and the alarm clock doesn't work if the phone is off.  slightly bigger biggie.

i had a lovely  lunch with maz today.  we went to greek on halifax.  i love greek food.  very nice to catch up.  we exchanged christmas presents.  yes, i know that's pathetic.  we live about 10 kms from each other and speak on the phone for hours two or three times a week but we hardly ever catch up.  it's her birthday while i'm away too.  we are going to catch up when i get back. that's the plan anyway.

i saw this (photo below) at my local shops the other day but it was nothing compared to the sight  i saw at the local supermaket the same day.  i didn't have my phone handy.  a tattooed young girl in a  fairy costume.  she looked quite colourful.

please note the blue bintang tshirt on the left

i'm having the kids over tomorrow for a day or  two.  i'm looking forward to that.  i'm minding my other granddaughter on monday.  i hope my friend Carol can come over on sunday for lunch.  i can't  get used to the end of daylight saving just yet.  on sunday night i went to bed exhausted and looked at the clock and noticed it was only 9.30 pm.  unheard of for me to be in bed so early.  i worked sunday so that would  have made me tired too.  

i also noticed that the 'edit' function is back on blogger.  thank goodness for that.  

enjoy your Easter break wherever you are.  i'm lucky enough to have days off until wednesday.  lovely  

weird messages trying to log into blogger

something weird is going on with my computer.  i have been getting a page pop up when i log into blogger for the last few days.  it's a red screen with a white text box saying 'something's not right here' and a report about one of the blogs that i follow having malware.  i have reported it to blogger and have turned off the bit in preferences about warnings so am not getting it now.  it's only on the computer that i use chrome on.  if i go into ie9 or similar i don't get it.  i am just wondering if anyone else has been getting this page pop up.  i wonder if anyone else uses chrome.  probably not.  i am assuming it's a chrome issue and not blogger.  let me know if you've had it too.