Strong , healthy, malaria completely gone and I have decided to stay in Bali for two more days to celebrate my birthday with the friends I have that are here. I have been surfing most days the weather is highly changeable and eratic. It has been monsoon rains on and off for the last few days. Back to Lombok on Wednesday, Kuta is getting busier everyday and more expensive as well, the sea is crowded as usual. Sarangan has been offshore so I have been surfing there. Life is good but I am missing some things about the UK as it is springtime there right now..

Surfed all day yesterday at Sarangan Bali, felt super weak for first 2 hrs, strength has come back for now, really felt like I needed to get back in the sea it has such a healing effect on me. Caught some firing waves and surfed until sunset. Started trying to organise some work back in the uk for when I return, my spirit feels ready to return for a while at least. Clari and Katy from the Uk are here, my friend Johan is back in town. It seems there is never a shortage of great people to spend time with and when they are here I can spend days on end with them. However back in the UK every body was always so busy and the odd evening or coffee was about all most people could squeeze into their busy schedules..

I managed to repair my macbook so I am really happy about that. When it was running really well a made an exact mirror copy of the harddrive and put it in storage. When this drive crashed I replaced the crashed drive with then  one I mirrored and it rebooted up fine. That means the operating system has got corrupted somewhere and it is a software not a hardware problem. I can back up reinstall that and hopefully I will not have lost any info and all will run smoothly. The thought of my laptap going down really gave me a sinking feeling in my gut, unbelieveable how much we vluable information we have invested in these machines, music, photos, memories etc…

I thought I was 100% but my health and strength has crashed again, Malaria seems to come in waves.. having strange thoughts in my head about the world life and my future, everything feels weird and I am having lots of cold sweats… I have been stayin a posh Villa in Seminyak with Clari and Katie from the Uk,. The Villa has Air con and today my macbook crashed going from the air con bedroom to the living area, I can not get it to restart reload or reboot….!!! Now I am in an internet cafe trying to troubleshoot it and hopefully self repair this situation.

Said goodbye to Eugene last night and my friend Toby they are returning back to the UK now, my friend from Lombok Kevin is also back to California today. I am not feeling well and my emotions seem to permanently exist in a constant state of arrival and departure all at the same time.

I want to surf again the sea has such a healing energy, but today I have missed the spring time in the UK I have always enjoyed this time in the UK

Resting a lot feel almost healthy again, I have two friends from thr Uk that have travelled over from Goa India, Clarissa and her friend Katie are now both in town so I spent the day showing them a few local sights and sounds yesterday.

strength has been coming and going needed to lie down on the floor most of the day, felt awful weak and aches throughout my body, sweated all through my sleep. This morning however I feel strong enough to surf except there is no waves and its raining. Spending lots of time thinking what I am going to do after I get the certificates on my land, the wait is difficult as I need to get back to the UK or somewhere and start getting some cash in the bank. Exchange rate is still bad so Indonesia is not the cheap place to relax and surf like it was last year.

yesterday was hell, my strength kept coming in and out like waves, one minute I would feel alert and ok then in an hour I could hardly move. Every piece of flat pavement or grass looked like a bed, at one point in the afternoon I lay down on one piece of grass for a brief moment and woke up 3 hours later in the recovery position with a dog licking me. Perked up a bit early evening and met up with my friends Val and Craig who are returning to Australia in a few days. It will be the end of their 18 month travels through Indonesia. I have a few pics of craig surfing which I will post here soon. I stayed in Sumatra with them both for a month and have since spent lots of time in Lombok and Bali as our paths crossed over the last 18 months.  I will be sad to see them go. Craig said he is coming back to surf again in a few months so we shall see.

My Friend from Lakey Peak “Reddog” is back in town having travelled a big chunk of the world surfing hopefully I will be strong enough to surf again soon. English boys Reubyn and Joss Ash are still in town and so are Toby and Dan so I will try and get surfing with them again when I am strong enough..

Bali is very hot right now..