Taking a look back at the past week in my Facebook snippets

By HILARY GAVIN

HOW TIMES flies! The older I get. the faster the weeks seem to pass by. I’ve been recharging my batteries over the past two very wet wintry months, but I’ve now got to knuckle down to hard graft again as my caravan holiday let reopens at Seal Bay in Selsey.

Yesterday, I spent the whole day cleaning and dressing my caravan ready for our first guests arriving on St David’s Day in 2026.

As you can see from my embedded Facebook snippets, I have no idea why I’ve got an empty gas bottle at my caravan because I seem to be going through them at a rate of knots – despite no-one staying in my caravan! My only hope is that the Seal Bay bosses sort out this problem out soon because it cannot go on.

Moan over, as you can see I’ve been quite prolific writing over the past week but I can only seem to scroll back six days on Facebook profile to embed my musings on our crazy world.

This takes us back to the FB post I shared from Tindle News and my recollection of interviewing the late Sir Ray Tindle in Farnham in 2011. A remarkable man who knew the local newspaper industry inside out, so it was a great pleasure meeting him back then.

It’s a pity I couldn’t go back far enough on Facebook to share my intro to my Clubmen of The Trundle WordPress article where I ask the pressing question on everyone’s lips (Lol): “Was the English Civil War (War of the Three Kingdoms) Europe’s first revolution?”

Anyhow, no doubt I’ll share this little bit of copy with you (my readers) sometime soon. If not, you can find it at my Facebook group entitled Hilary Gavin’s Local News Commentary.

You’ll also be able to read my Facebook post on my late Dad’s ‘secret war’ and the intriguing photo of what appears to be an Italian monastery perched high on a hilltop.

Of course, you know I’ve mentioned my Dad’s photos before, which include one of Winston Churchill sat in a dressing gown.

As you can see I mention Churchill in one of my FB posts because, not only was he was a complex man but, as you’ll discover, my family had differing views towards him.

On my Welsh side, his name was pretty much a dirty word with my relatives in the Rhondda valleys in South Wales as they’d lived the Tonypandy Riots. On my Dad’s domestic servants side of my family, well, my I’m pretty certain now that my father must have had some dealings with the Second World War Prime Minster.

All this political chit-chat takes me back to the Cold War years when the general public was truly divided between Conservative and Labour voters and never the twain met.

It’s for this reason that I’ve shared the video re-enactment of an interview between the late “matchstick men and matchstick cats and dogs” artist L S Lowry and a young Northern Socialist lass.

Of course, I have my own views on politics formed by my experience of life but I wouldn’t class my family as overtly political.

This is why I’ve never truly sat down to think about any underlying tensions there might have been between entrenched Tory voters on the South Downs above Chichester, West Sussex, and the possibly perceived “radical” Welsh teachers who arrived there in the 1930s.

All I would say is that the Twentieth Century was a strange time.

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