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12/10/2024

I have just submitted a tribute article about my 16 years as a reporter for 'Hastings Town' magazine to the 'Cinque Ports' magazine. It has been sad writing about the 'end of an era' for me but good to be able to look back on 16 happy years doing what I always wanted to do when I was at school - be a Journalist (or a Pop Star!).

I now have the task of trying to select some of my favourite photos from the last 16 years to go with the article. Not an easy task but I'm glad it will bring back a whole heap of memories!

In recent years my life has been one constantly associated with 'the pain of loss' but as far as 'Hastings Town' is concerned I have at least had the chance to write heart-felt tributes to the people and places I love that have gone. From my dear friends, Alan Gaywood and Keith Tooke to local 'characters' like Biddy The Tubman, Ron 'Popeye' Everett and 'Cherie Pasche' I have had a blast meeting people, listening and learning about their lives and writing about them.

You never get everything in life but at least I have got to do some of what I most wanted to do, had a loving family and great, great friends ###x

27/09/2024

I was given the sad news yesterday that 'Hastings Town' magazine has come to the end of the line as far as being an individual magazine is concerned...

The current edition (out now) is therefore to be the very last as from next month any Hastings related content will instead appear in the 'Cinque Ports' magazine.

Sadly, with so many newsagents about town closing and the loss of our 'flagship' shop 'Sweet Selection' in the town centre it is just not viable for 'Hastings Town' to continue as a stand-alone title.

I have spent a VERY happy 16 years writing for HT and I hope to continue on writing bits for both the 'Cinque Ports' and 'Vintage World' titles so it is not the end as such but my heart will always be one to think of myself as a 'Hastings Town' reporter...

MANY THANKS to all who have helped me - and continue to help me - with my articles over the years - it has been a blast!

Hastings Town 2008 - 2024

24/09/2024

Some good and bad news.

The GOOD news is that my recent Christmas story featuring Teddy Tinker's was so loved by my friend, Kate Rosie that it is going to be made into a little book! I really hoped that Kate would like the story but she did more than that - she LOVED it! (lol) It will be the second of my festive stories featuring Teddy Tinker's to get the 'book treatment' and is something I can look forward to in the way that I used to be able to look forward to seeing my latest CD! I might be able to write an article about all of this for 'Hastings Town to compensate for not using the story in the magazine as originally planned I will have to see...

On the BAD news front Dad had another fall yesterday. He is O.K. thankfully but his balance issues seem to be getting worse and I need to keep a cloer eye and ear on him when I am in now...

18/09/2024

Really chuffed with myself today! Out 'collecting' early I added 2 more sacks to my total and then I have spent the rest of the day writing a new Christmas story for the festive edition of 'Hastings Town' which I am excited about!

26/08/2024

Very little social content for me to share these days as all I do pretty much is look after Dad and go out 'collecting' as The Clean Up Man.

Dad has had to have a catheter put in again (which is a pain!) but aside from that we are doing o.k. together. On the 'collecting' front I have collected 37 sacks full of litter and fly-tip so far this month, which is quite an increase! With a few days left in the month I expect to exceed the 42 sacks I need to reach my target of 500 sacks this time but even if I do there will be ground to make up if I am to get to my target.

06/08/2024

Two more sacks of litter/fly tipping yesterday to take me to 251 sacks for the year so far.

Just past the half way marker then but (as last year) about a month's worth of 'collecting' behind if I am to reach my target of 500 sacks this year.

If anything the litter situation is slightly better than last year but this is most likely down to the fact that there are now more volunteer litter pickers going about.

Will keep trying and keep you posted!

08/07/2024

Does anyone know an Emma Whittall? If so I think I may have her purse. I found it this morning while out 'collecting' as The Clean Up Man. There is some money in it and two credit cards - it is safe with me but I would like to return it to Emma.

PLEASE SHARE this post as I have tried looking for her on here but with no luck. I expect she lives locally but may not be on FB. If any of you know her contact me here or on 01424 852024 (please let it ring a while as Dad is elderly and I am usually upstairs)..

Let's get Emma her purse back!

04/07/2024

I would like to post a 'general word of warning to all policy makers and politicians' involved in the General Election today.

Watch out for the 'Did Not Vote' vote!

I will be taking a close interest in how many people do not vote this time since the new (BIG BROTHER) photo Id requirement has come into force.

I believe this to be wrong and will be surprised if the 'Did Not Vote' vote does not rise at this election as a result. It is well worth pointing out I feel that if 'Did Not Vote' actually outscores the winning party that the whole idea of democracy must be seen to have failed - miserably!

Politicians in this country are I feel going to be shown a LARGE Yellow card today - they would do well to take note of this because the 'ref' only has one other option after that - the RED card!

It is time for Big Brother to retire and let people be humans again - with all their frailties and faults. Making mistakes is part of what it means to be human and to learn from those mistakes is a vital part of a persons development in life. We are not robots nor should we be treated like such - trying to 'run' society with such hardening and rigid rules as is commonly becoming the case these days is a HUGE mistake!

A win for 'Did not vote' = the decline of interaction with politics and the more people who take no notice of politics the more fragmented we as a community we become!

Right, well That is all I have to say about the election! (lol)

01/07/2024

With 'election fever' gripping Hollington it seems that the pressure is getting to some of the local electorate!

4 sacks of litter 'collected' today by The Clean Up Man to take my total to the year so far to 215 sacks! THREE pairs of soiled boxer shorts 'contributed' to those sacks taking the total pairs found this year to 8 with 'underpants' on 4 and knickers a still totally respectable 0!

There does seem to be a big reduction though in the amount of large fly-tipping incidents which is nice and I have seen lots of local people deliberately using bins which is great to see! One or two people have even helped out briefly to make a difference to my workload so THANK YOU to those as well...

Hollington can be a great place to live if we all look after it!

02/06/2024

'The Clean Up Man' out again this morning. Lovely weather so nice to get sunshine and fresh air but the littering was less encouraging. Got 4 sacks full today including a smashed up portable record player that someone had jumped on and smashed to bits in the road and the remnants of a motorcycle that had been in an accident . What made me laugh about the motorcycle was that all the sharp bits of metal had still been left in the road - just right for peoples tyres! Most of the debris had been chucked on the side of the road but no-one had since come along to clear it all away! I couldn't do much with some of the larger bits of bodywork but I managed to bag up most of the rest...

The grass is thick and deep almost all over Hollington at the moment and a great many paths are getting overgrown and blocked or are dangerous re brambles etc. Such a shame that we as a society have become so slapdash about keeping the place looking nice...

30/05/2024

It seems you have to watch exactly which words you choose to use on here these days. I had to delete a post yesterday about my litter collecting and its effect upon society because they said it infringed their standards on 'hate speech'! (lol)

If a real human had read what I'd said rather than an AI bot it would have become immediately obvious that my post was about nothing of the sort! Sadly, it seems we are all now being 'ruled' by AI and computer programmes rather than real people...

'Brave new world' here we come!!!

29/05/2024

Very little of excitement to report in my life these days - but that is not necessarily a bad thing bearing in mind my recent past...

Out 'collecting' again with the Tidy Up St Leonards group but it was hard going as the area down where the old Bathing Pool used to be was very good! I struggled to get just a single sack of stuff and spent most of my time clearing fag butts. The message really does seem to be getting through to people these days about keeping the place nice and taking pride in and care of your community! The only bummer for me being my success is in effect putting me out of the job I never had in the first place! (lol)

Still. I had a nice long walk in the fresh air at least. 27 sacks 'collected' this month so far...

30/04/2024

Woke up very early this morning. I felt hungry and kept thinking about Tom Leitch whose death I heard of yesterday. Tom and I were not really friends as such but we shared a lot of good times together when he was the 'sound man' for 'The Pieros' and in the days when he used to come along to Shorelink Community Writers 'Summer Parties' held at Nicola Rodmell's farm. I still have a lot of photos from that time and with all that has happened in the last three years or so most of it seems like a lifetime ago now...The one 'ray of hope' coming out of these thoughts being that I joined Shorelink in late March/April 2004 - 20 years ago this year. Until I left in about 2018 I had experienced 16 happy years of fun, happy memories with people like Alvin Culzac, Sally Patricia Gardner, Roland Gardner, Bean Kennedy, Bin Kennedy, the late Robert Brandon, Paul Cooper, Bill Myers and Anthony Berry, Jan Wilkins, Tania Pearce and a whole host of others. We did picnics, nights out to the theatre, FEDfests and two or three MINIfests as well as 'Hastings Hullabaloo!' and numerous Christmas time gatherings and lunches. All of which go to prove that if things come right for you a LOT of good things can happen to a person in 16 years! I am so blessed to have known all of the above people and to have met 'my old sparring partner' Harvey Summers through my association with Shorelink and Alvin Culzac. Will such good times ever come again? Maybe buy even if they don't I have many fantastic memories to keep me warm.. Lots of love to all and sincere condolences to Tom's Leitch's family, friends and colleagues... ###

01/04/2024

A quick end of month update on my progress as The Clean Up Man.. After three months I am on 129 sacks full of litter/fly-tipping which is 3 ahead of my target if I want to get to the 500 mark by the end of the year. Nothing has changed much since last year but the area does feel and look a bit better to me this time around so I think I might struggle over the next two months or so to find as much stuff...Well, HOPEFULLY that might be the case but you can never underestimate the power of the 'degenerate community'! (lol) On that note the scores on the doors re underwear this year now reads Boxer Shorts 4 Underpants 3 Knickers 0 so well done to the ladies for not contributing so far to the scoreline!

07/03/2024

Out 'collecting' again this morning. Got 2 sacks full of stuff to bring up the 100 sacks so far this year mark! Yesterday went out with the Tidy Up St Leonards team and found somebodies keys. We were in and about the flats in Stonehouse drive at the time so if you know of anyone who lost some keys in that area please tell them to contact me directly on [email protected]

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