What am I doing exactly?

Having left the joys of working behind me at the end of last year I have now retired....resigned from work...begun an extended holiday......commenced an experiment in living in Bali........or simply joined the ranks of the great unemployed (as Ewan so kindly puts it!), I'm not sure what to call it!

The facts are that I am living in Bali for the next two months, sharing the first nine days with the gorgeous Erin (who fortunately is in the ranks of the great employed!).

Not for me the bogans of Kuta, the masses of tourists, the overpriced shops  and the nightclubs of the beach resorts. I am renting a delightful villa in Ubud. My frequent trips to Ubud over the last couple of years to visit my friend Alison have whetted my appetite to explore the many offerings of this lovely town in the mountains of Bali.

The villa I have rented belongs to another Di - a friend of Alison's- and is half of a house belonging to Cat Wheeler who has written a couple of entertaining and informative books about retiring to Bali. She has already, in the space of a couple of days, provided lots of information and fascinating discussion about the joys and woes of Bali. 

Lots of my friends and family are keen to hear how i am getting on, and given the plethora of communication devices that shouldn't be hard....in theory. In practice I don't want to spend my life updating the messenger users, contacting the SKYPE users, emailing the rest and then trying to post photos on Facebook for the Facebook addicts!

So I have come to the conclusion that writing the occasional blog will achieve a few goals:

1. Julia Cameron, who teaches creativity, suggests that when you get up every morning you should write three pages of anything you like....but I am usually off for a walk as soon as I am awake so that's not quite going to work. I'm hoping that writing the occasional blog will unleash some creativity at least!

2. It will give those of you who are interested a chance to find out what I am up to at your leisure.

3. I am hoping that family members may print it off for those members of the family without internet access - ie. Yvonne and Ken, my 90 year old parents.

So we'll see what happens!