Greetings gardeners! Welcome to your intrepid gardening Girl Reporter’s first filing from our secret island location in Hong Kong. It’s a year since the current Mr Baxter and I shut the gate for the last […]
A reporter’s rounds are as much about people as they are about the overnight crime stats and the latest council decisions. If you want to know what’s going on you have to be there. You […]
On 6 December 1966, Chairman Mao’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution arrived briefly and violently at Dalgety’s Wharf in Brisbane, Australia. It’s an incident which has largely been forgotten in the tumult of history, but it […]
Welcome to Your Girl Reporter’s first post for 2019, my traditional assessment of what’s in store for the Lunar New Year, with a bit of help from Chinese astrology. It’s fun! It’s also my first […]
This is my first Hong Kong Christmas in a long time, so it’s only right that we revisit a day out spent with my family on our first Christmas Day in Hong Kong in 1967. […]
The Year of the Dog promised opportunity for those born in the sign of Tiger and the noble hound has been good to Your Girl Reporter, still reeling from the enormous change in circumstances of […]
Almost from the moment we arrived in Hong Kong in 1967 my father Jack Spackman was working as a stringer, most regularly for Australia’s Fairfax newspapers. A stringer is a locally based correspondent who may […]
Moustaches are sprouting everywhere and it’s all about Men’s Health. The Movember movement began, as many good ideas do, with a bunch of blokes in a pub back in 2002. Today, it’s a leading fundraiser […]
The story of the Battle of Hastings in 1066 is well known, and not just among the English. Your Girl Reporter heard all about it at Kennedy Road Junior School in Hong Kong. We made […]
As a left-hander, I automatically offend my fellow diners when it comes to how I wield my chopsticks. Many a meal would begin with Dad complaining that he was sitting on the wrong side of […]
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