Month: January 2026
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/1384558033141754 By HILARY GAVIN THIS is simply a brief WordPress blog to introduce you to my Facebook commentary site as there’s a break in the weather and I’m keen to get outside in my back garden. As you can see I’ve posted a link to this Facebook page beneath the screengrab of it so you…
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PIC: The schoolchildren at East Marden with my Nan Mrs Davies on the right-hand side and my late Mum in the centre looking rather mischievous. Please see my post-script to this blog. By HILARY GAVIN WHEN our late Mum Enid Gavin died ten years ago my sister penned the most moving eulogy for her funeral…
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By HILARY GAVIN SIDLESHAM parish councillors met for their January meeting yesterday when they had lively discussions on an array of issues affecting the village – including the future of the Memorial Hall, Speedwatch volunteers and the Stagecoach no51 bus route. As you can see, I have embedded five YouTube videos in this blog post…
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Thames TV YouTube clip from July 1983 By HILARY GAVIN THERE’S no denying that I felt quite superior donning a scientist’s white coat for my holiday job at the EEC Food Intervention Board’s grain mountain in Tangmere, West Sussex, in the summer of 1984. Of course, I would have appeared even more imposing to strangers…