Hi all,

I write a diary of my experiences and email it to quite a few people - thought some of you might find some of it interesting so I have attached my latest offering

And if you did find that interesting here's one that details how funerals are held in Tonga

That's good stuff, Andy.

Thanks for sharing those with us.

Feel free to post any more you might have!

Meanwhile, my own (old) car is available for viewing on Google Maps. All you need is the Post Code.

Thanks Geoff,

perhaps this may also interest you - Nauru where they used to mine the fertiliser

H'mmm. Tropical paradise, indeed.

We still have WWII "pill boxes" strategically arranged all over England, by the way. They have proven to be indestructible. It's amazing what could be done (and to such quality) in such a short time. "Needs must" yet again.

And (just like for everything else these days) there is a wealth of information about them on line.

I'm currently at Rarotonga Hospital in the Cook Islands

hers a little taste of the Cooks - I am sorry as I am aware its getting on to winter there soon.

Looks like some of those places could do with some scrap metal merchants (might even be able to employ a few more of the locals that way, too).

I wonder what became of the Model-T's (still there)?

Pity about the [censored] holiday makers as well. Yet another modern disease spread by "Westerners".

Apart from all that - I wish I was there. Looking at those pictures, I was trying to imagine the smell that places like that generally have. Aromas are very evocative, I reckon. Pity that you can't save them, just as you can with photographs and recordings.

Another Cooks one interesting pics of the Lagoon at Aitutaki

Thanks Geoff,

That's why I posted about sending junk before.

As for Nauru - the funny thing is because they don't readily accept tourists and even though on the equator and blazing hot its not humid so things don't rust away or get graffitied .That field piece, for example, still has the grey paint on it - its hard to believe it was left there nearly sixty two years ago by the Japaneese

Interesting about the ukuleles ... they're popular in Hawaii as well, apparently.

There ... and with fans of George Formby, of course (those were the days)!

"Famous people passing through"? Amelia Earhart?