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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | George Hayter
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3 weeks ago | 
hampshirechronicle.co.uk | George Hayter
2 1/1 When I was a rash 25-year-old, a friend and I were not having much luck hitch-hiking across the USA, so we decided to try jumping a freight. In America, phrases like "freight jumping" mean surreptitiously boarding a railway goods wagon and travelling inside it free of charge, usually for hundreds of miles. "Jumping a freight" was common during the 1930s American depression and became part of American folklore, celebrated in song and film.
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1 month ago | 
hampshirechronicle.co.uk | George Hayter
WHAT do you do when you are in conversation with someone who uses a word that you don’t understand? Do you interrupt and ask the person to explain what the word means? Is daring to interrupt the right thing to do? Otherwise won’t the person carry on talking in a cruelly misguided belief that you have understood every word he has said? Should you keep quiet, nervous of revealing your poor education, and feeling it best to hide the inadequacy of your vocabulary?
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2 months ago | 
hampshirechronicle.co.uk | George Hayter
George Hayter (Image: George Hayter) MY WIFE and I made a mistake in embarking on a 10-day driving holiday at the coldest time of the year. We set off on our 2,000-mile return trip across Germany to Austria early last month, when Hampshire and much of Europe were gripped by ice and snow. On our three-day drive to a ski resort we stopped in Mainz and Nuremburg to admire medieval German architecture but both times ice-cold blasts drove us back to our warm car.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
hampshirechronicle.co.uk | George Hayter
WHEN is the best time of year to go for a walk in Hampshire? I think most people would say summer is obviously best for anything outdoors, including walking. I’m not so sure. Here in the temperate south of England I reckon winter is just as jolly for hiking a few miles. On all but the stormiest of sleeting days, combatting winter cold is simply a matter of a) walking fast and b) wearing enough.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
hampshirechronicle.co.uk | George Hayter
MOVING all the pictures in our house is a task I relish. We have accumulated a motley collection of 26 photos, prints and paintings, some of them my own efforts. At the start of our latest move I unhooked the pictures from the walls in every room of our three-bedroom home and lined them up on the floor in one room. It took an hour to hang them all up again – but in different places. Each picture was relocated to a position away from where it had been hanging for the previous six months or so.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
hampshirechronicle.co.uk | George Hayter
YOU might think that, as someone fearful of global warming, I would be a natural to support the Green Party. But, despite my passion for the green agenda, I’m afraid I cannot vote for the Green Party. I’m disappointed that there isn’t a green party I can vote for, and I’m upset that the people in the (capital letters) Green Party are wasting the name. I think the title “Green Party” should belong to a party focusing entirely on green issues, as the name suggests.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
hampshirechronicle.co.uk | George Hayter
UNEXPECTEDLY I found that I had the ball, so I kicked it vaguely in the direction of the other school’s goal. I managed to catch up with the ball and tap it a bit further toward the distant goal. Aged 12, I was the worst player in the 2nd XI of our school, at New Milton in Hampshire. The pitch was unlevel and the ball was accelerating downhill, toward their goal. I struggled to keep up with it.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
hampshirechronicle.co.uk | George Hayter
A snail in Fareham (Image: Yen Milne) BELLA came out of her pre-school nursery excited and holding a plastic cup. In the cup was a snail. That surprised her mum, who had come as usual to take the four-year-old home. Staff at the pre-school door explained that the little girl had found the slimy creature in the playground. They said that for the rest of the day Bella had observed the shell-lugging gastropod slithering around on leaves in the cup.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
hampshirechronicle.co.uk | George Hayter
2 1/1 I’M FINDING it increasingly difficult to watch the news on TV. Ever more depressing stories about politics, economics and the environment make bulletins torture. Radio and newspapers force-feed the same misery. Let me give you a moment of relief from news laden with anxiety to bring you recent encouraging global news that was not widely disseminated. The frightening increase in the world’s population is now forecast to end sooner than expected.
