Maria Spackman

Maria Spackman

Covering the past, present and future of journalism... and whatever else takes my fancy

  • Home
  • About
  • Journalism
    • The Spackman Files
    • China Mail
  • Radio Baxter
    • Reading Lounge
  • The Rest
    • My Extraordinary Aunt
    • Adventures in Gardening
    • Observations
    • Art and Literature
    • Adventures of a Girl Reporter
News Ticker
  • [ January 23, 2022 ] That’s it, I quit: Jack Spackman hangs up on Hong Kong radio Jack Spackman
  • [ January 9, 2022 ] Death of a Queen: The night the Queen Elizabeth burned in Hong Kong harbour The Spackman Files
  • [ June 13, 2021 ] Silly streak seals pressman’s fate at Hong Kong dragon boat race Hong Kong Deadline
  • [ November 22, 2020 ] Killing of Lee Harvey Oswald: The slow journey of a great news photograph Photojournalism
  • [ October 31, 2020 ] Twisted tales – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Murder Ballads Session 2 Murder Ballads
Home2016February

Month: February 2016

Art and Literature

And the Baxter for Best Picture goes to…

February 21, 2016 Sally Baxter 0

One of the better habits I have taken up this year is that of trying to watch all the Oscar Noms for Best Picture in advance of the actual awards night. Yes, I’m unfashionably up […]

Observations

Monkey business ahead for Malcolm, Bill and Tony

February 7, 2016 Maria Spackman 2

What does the Year of the Monkey have in store for 2016? Since it’s an election year I thought it would be fun to check out the Chinese horoscopes for our political leaders. Our Prime […]

you might also like…

  • Death of a Queen: The night the Queen Elizabeth burned in Hong Kong harbour
    January 9, 2022 2
  • Silly streak seals pressman’s fate at Hong Kong dragon boat race
    June 13, 2021 0
  • Killing of Lee Harvey Oswald: The slow journey of a great news photograph
    November 22, 2020 1

Adventures of a Girl Reporter

  • The view’s all right on a Saturday night from the First In, Last Out in Hastings
    September 29, 2019 0
  • Stranded in Salzburg with no Sound of Music, just a bunch of horny hoteliers
    August 18, 2019 0
  • Lost in translation over California skies
    April 28, 2019 0

My Extraordinary Uncle

  • A lesson in chopsticks etiquette with My Extraordinary Uncle Bill Yim
    September 30, 2018 1
  • Oh! You should be so lucky to see Hong Kong’s Bill Yim flash his draws
    June 24, 2018 10

Journalism

  • And then he Walkley’d away with my heart
    December 6, 2015 8
  • Greste, Page, Ware and Wockner – a century of journalism on the frontline
    August 2, 2015 2
  • Journalists rush to protect their own against data retention laws
    March 29, 2015 6

Photojournalism

  • Killing of Lee Harvey Oswald: The slow journey of a great news photograph
    November 22, 2020 1
  • Singapore exhibition showcases the power and the glory of Vietnam photojournalists
    March 31, 2019 0
  • Should we see dead people?
    September 13, 2015 0

Hong Kong Deadline

  • Suzie doesn’t live here anymore – The night old Wanchai died
    August 21, 2016 14
  • My secret life of crime revealed
    March 20, 2016 2
  • In a corrupt town the dirty cop is king – remembering Peter Godber
    August 24, 2014 8

China Mail

  • After the siege: China Mail job hunt tough for some
    March 26, 2017 5
  • After the siege – a fair go for Hong Kong’s China Mail
    February 12, 2017 4
  • After the siege – the China Mail battle for hearts and minds
    November 2, 2014 5

Radio Baxter

  • Leonard Cohen bows out before the Age of Indecency 
    November 13, 2016 0
  • David Bowie’s death means everything. And nothing
    January 24, 2016 5
  • Rock n Roll trolling, California-style
    March 1, 2015 2

Sally Baxter, Gardening Reporter

  • Sally Baxter Girl Reporter welcomes you to her Hong Kong roof garden
    March 17, 2019 1
  • Farewell to a traditional Aussie backyard
    March 18, 2018 0
  • Death stalks the garden in a penguin tee
    November 26, 2017 3

A Colonial Childhood

  • The story of the Battle of Hastings in 1066 is well known, and not just among the English.
    History: On the Hastings battlefield we were standing in it, and in Hong Kong?
    October 14, 2018 0
  • Dodging rats in the dark for photographic magic
    October 15, 2017 1
  • Hong Kong 1967: Snapshots of my grandmother
    May 14, 2017 4

From the beginning…

  • Footloose girl takes the long western road home
    April 20, 2014 6
  • In 1967 Jack and Margaret Spackman arrived in Hong Kong
    February 23, 2014 3
  • Nostalgia and its trimmings
    February 9, 2014 4

My Extraordinary Aunt

  • Dad’s childhood spent clinging to the sheep’s back
    August 6, 2017 3
  • My Extraordinary Aunt: College days in 1960s Hong Kong
    May 28, 2017 5
  • My Extraordinary Aunt: In the shadow of Lion Rock
    April 9, 2017 11

Absent Friends

  • Francis James – international man of mystery
    March 15, 2015 6
  • Remembering Arthur Hacker, creator of Hong Kong icon Lap Sap Chung
    October 13, 2013 1
  • News gets out: In memory of Anthony Lawrence 1912-2013
    September 29, 2013 3

Chinese Astrology

  • Chinese astrology predictions for Trump, Xi and Putin in Year of the Pig
    January 18, 2019 0
  • Chinese Astrology predictions for Donald Trump in the Year of the Dog
    February 4, 2018 0
  • All the cocks a’crowing, each on their own dunghill
    January 29, 2017 5

Ankylosing Spondylitis

  • And then he Walkley’d away with my heart
    December 6, 2015 8
  • To hell and back – a hero’s journey with ankylosing spondylitis
    November 22, 2015 6
  • The highs and lows of living with an immune disorder
    June 7, 2015 1
Your Girl Reporter – also on radio

Find me at #RadioBaxter or #SaturdaySoundtrack while I groove through my chores with some choice trax. Don’t forget to playalonga with my #BathtimeBlues Or stay right here and kick back in the Reading Lounge

Follow me on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
Baby's on Fire
Young Radio Baxter
Tune in Groovers
Want more Girl Reporter?

I publish regularly on Sundays, with a break in January and June. Catch you later!

Copyright: Maria Spackman

 

Loading Comments...