"Typhoid" Idah said! I’d not long brought my first Android phone, so maybe this was some kind of upgrade package the Hospital was offering after I’d signed in, but my luck had deserted me again. Earlier I’d woken with a very stiff neck and a deep headache, now I've woken occasionally with a odd stiff…. over the years, but never a headache like this, and to be honest I’d been feeling pretty shit for weeks since being struck by Lighting. Maybe I was sulking about not getting any Super Powers from the strike or maybe I was on the way out? I'd better Call Ardi, who drives me everywhere, while I drive him to Religion is seems.  When I meet him he said he was a bad Muslim and after meeting me months later he is now a good Muslim, I’m not sure how to take this, but good is better than bad don’t you think.   I’m not sure if anybody read my blog about Chicken, but suspect my niece Em might be having a giggle about now. I’d once said to her “Life is a Shit Sandwich, Eat it or D...

I’d been on a mooring at Gili Air for a week or so when a storm developed quickly last week, the clouds burst dropping heavy rain then boom 💥 and a flash of light, I rushed up into the cockpit a little dazed rubbing my arm, my neighbours on a Catamaran, who were surfing on the reef close by arrived in there dingy to see if I was ok, they said they saw lightning hit the top of my mast. From left to right Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno and Gili Air where I was anchored. “I’m ok” I said, “just a shock to the arm”, which had been resting on some wood behind the seat in the saloon, while I was watching golf, I’d never thought watching golf on TV could be so dangerous, but there you go guys, the next time she rolls her eyes when you say, “I think I’ll go watch a little golf” just explain that this is dear devil stuff and you could even die while watching and she may regret that eye roll if you’re struck by lightning. The only real damage was to my wallet, I’m in for an electronics upgrade, yacht...