Resident of Yellow Coconut Village 12th July 2013 (organization) Hi , Last week I was telling you about my recent visit to Serampore on the banks

       
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Resident of Yellow Coconut Village

12th July 2013
(organization)
Hi ,

Last week I was telling you about my recent visit to Serampore on the banks of the Ganges and it's links with Wimbledon. You can read it here.
Since then I have been back to Delhi, to Bangalore and then flown via Kuala Lumpur to Bali. More precisely Ubud in Bali.

It may cheer you up to know the weather in the UK is much better than Bali. Here it's been raining all week, with electric storms at night :).

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Ubud is one of the worlds great giftware hubs. Highly creative people and hugely industrious locals produce artisan giftware that is shipped all over the world. I doubt there is a giftshop (at least one with taste and style) that doesn't stock some Indonesian handicrafts. There are other places (and growing fast) in Indonesia that produce handicrafts but Ubud sits regally up in the mountains, like a mythical giftware kingdom.

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So it makes sense to have a warehouse here. Mainly so suppliers orders can be consolidated, and we can ship whenever we have a full container load. Right now we have to try and coordinate suppliers to finish their production at the same time, at the point we want to ship. This means that inevitably, some suppliers are waiting to deliver long after stock is made, and others rushing to complete in order to get stock in the next container. It all ends up a bit of a botch job, and quality control can suffer.

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Last time I was here, on my last day. We spotted a part built warehouse, this been Ubud, as picturesque a warehouse as you can imagine, with stone statues outside and it's own roof top temple. Inside enough floor space for two container loads, although two walls were missing and the office at the back had been taken over by the jungle it looked almost perfect. The landlord, a young local architect (a pretty cool guy with a funky handshake), appeared and offered to do the place up to our specifications. He assured us it would be to a high standard. Ringo (our agent) was worried that a 40ft container wouldn't negotiate the narrow lanes to the site. So before we could finalise we had to make sure the access was OK. But subject to that we shook hands on the deal, and as good as his word the warehouse was ready for occupation on time.

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I signed the lease this week. The terms of the lease state that we must abide by the rules of the village as set by the village elders. This is the system here, every area, each village has elders who ensure that everything is equatable and peaceful and beautiful. The rules can change, I'm not even sure what the current rules are. It's going to be interesting I think.

Our village is called: "Br. Nyuh Kuning" or the Yellow Coconut Village.. which seems as good a name for the location of an Ancient Wisdom outpost.

Expect to read more about the Ubud outpost in future reports..
Until then.
Take care..

David

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