Month: October 2025
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By HILARY GAVIN IF YOU watch the tail end of this official trailer of the 2014 movie The Imitation Game, you’ll hear the British actress Keira Knightley delivering her character Joan Clarke‘s line by saying: “Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.”…
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By HILARY GAVIN https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61567727942481 IF YOU’D asked me whether I’d ever dream of going back online to face the gauntlet of social media as a journalist a few years ago – I’d have confidently told you: “Not on your Nelly.” There’s no doubt that Facebook, and other social media sites, are cesspits of bad language…
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By HILARY GAVIN I’M not going to spend long writing this WordPress blog post this morning because I don’t want to spend much time writing today. I have, however, copied and pasted the Facebook message I rattled off this morning along with one of my late Dad Gordon MacDonald Gavin’s Second World War photos. The…
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By HILARY GAVIN MY LATE mum Enid Gavin (nee Davies) always used to chuckle on opening Uncle BoB’s festive Christmas card to his brother Gordon, his wife and the girls. “Ah,” she’d tell us, “It’s Uncle BoB’s card – big B, little o, big B.” Don’t get me wrong, my Mum wasn’t being patronising or…
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By HILARY GAVIN Friday, October 10th, 2025 I AM writing this report on Sidlesham Parish Council’s full meeting held in the St Mary’s Church Hall Parish Rooms on Wednesday, October 8th, after downloading two YouTube videos of the proceedings which is always time-consuming. As you can see from the footage, Wednesday’s meeting covered a great…
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By HILARY GAVIN FOR as long as I can remember I’ve been aware of Hollywood star Groucho Marx’s quip to a private-members’ club, when he allegedly said: “Please accept my resignation, I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.” If you’ve never heard of Groucho Marx and his…
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By HILARY GAVIN IF I’M HONEST, I’m not a film critic and I’m not up-to-date with the movie scene, but – saying that – one motion picture that has recently grabbed my attention is THE BIG SHORT – a real-life BANK FRAUD expose in the U.S of A. Yes, I realise banking is an anathema…