Category: Memoirs and travel feature
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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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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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CRIKEY, two WordPress blog posts in a matter of two days. Mind you, this post is simply a hyperlink to the Facebook message I’ve just written this morning about John Lennon’s tragic death in New York in December 1980 when I was a still a teenager. I’m not going to expand on my memory here…
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Staying with my great-aunts Eurwen and Hetty in the Welsh coal mining village of Ystrad was fun-packed and never grim despite the backdrop of slagheaps IN OUR supposedly civilised society I’m sure the majority of us living in Britain today would agree that “everyone deserves to have a roof over their head”. In fact most…