Category: Journalism
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STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT – drinking with two Americans we met in a bar on a stopover in Amsterdam en route to Berlin 1984 By HILARY GAVIN SO Easter came and went and it’s almost a fortnight now since I posted my last Facebook round-up on my WordPress blog. Much of my past two weeks…
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By HILARY GAVIN WELCOME, folks, to my round-up of last week’s Facebook posts -which is once again a day late and is as should be, I suppose, with Sundays quickly becoming my day of rest. To be honest, I’d not realised how prolific I’d been writing up my own and commenting on shared Facebook posts…
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By HILARY GAVIN I CAN HARDLY believe another week has flown by and I’m sharing my regular Facebook news round-up with you again. Of course, you can either click through to my Facebook posts below or visit my Hilary Gavin’s Local Reporting Commentary page on Meta where you can easily scroll through them in one…
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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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OVER the past decade or so, during my self-imposed early retirement, I enjoyed going to the movies with a friend who would insist on sitting through the credits at the end of a film. Of course, this was an alien concept to me and to our fellow filmgoers at our New Park picture-drome in Chichester,…
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By HILARY GAVIN CHARITY, they say, begins at home and it’s a proverb that I have, on the whole, equated with selfishness in my life. Saying that, I’ve begun to view this short truism in a different light over the past two years as our modern-day individualistic society continues to eschew the extended family in…