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Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

Column: Javea Connect admin Loraine Gostling’s spirits are raised by the nightly aplausos and pranksters making covid-19 that little more bearable

FOLKS, there will be no bets taken on what I am pondering on this week. Life is surreal. I feel I have been thrown into a 1950s fictional movie and – whilst

24 Mar, 2020 @ 10:00

Columnists·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

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Javea Connect admin Loraine Gostling reveals her moonlighting as a pantomime actress as Adrian: A Fairytale of Happing Endings is set to infect the Costa Blanca with laughter

This week, I am removing my Javea Connect hat and becoming a little more fruity with you all! When I say ‘fruity’, I am actually quite fruit specific… a banana, to be

8 Mar, 2020 @ 16:34

Columnists·Costa Blanca·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

A yellow weather alert is on the horizon for several provinces across Spain.

Javea Connect admin Loraine Gostling tries to keep her mind off the weather… but can’t find anything positive about January

Weather has been awful, eh? Yes I know an understatement – so I have decided to leave that subject to those braver than I, who have been out filming in it this

27 Jan, 2020 @ 18:30

Columnists·Costa Blanca·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

A goodwill adoption of two cats turns sour as the creatures terrorise columnist Loraine Gostling’s Christmas decorations

So this is Christmas, and what have I done? The truth is… not much. You see, something dreadful happened to us that stopped me getting in my elf outfit on November 30,

22 Dec, 2019 @ 10:30

Columnists·Costa Blanca·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

As the dreaded ‘C’ word rears its festive head, Loraine Gostling reminds us that C also stands for Charity

The ‘C’ word is just around the corner and, for the past couple of weeks on Javea Connect, the annual appeals have started to help those whose lives do not have the

8 Dec, 2019 @ 21:25

Columnists·Costa Blanca·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

COLUMN: A swingers request on Costa Blanca Facebook group sends admin scratching their heads at the rulebook, writes Loraine Gostling

Before I begin, I just have to give you a quick update on the new KFC in Ondara (avid readers will remember last week’s food fight over whether we should celebrate or

30 Nov, 2019 @ 13:21

Columnists·Costa Blanca·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

With Javea Connect Facebook members getting nasty over a new restaurant, Loraine Gostling turns to John Bercow for advice

So, what has been going on these last weeks with the happy ‘connectors’ on my Facebook group? What makes people talk to each other? What are the subjects that people want to

10 Nov, 2019 @ 17:50

Columnists·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

Despite a family visit to the UK, Javea Connect’s Loraine Gostling is still stuck in her Facebook group complaint cycles

This week I am meandering from that green and pleasant land we know as the United (although now rather Untied) Kingdom. But, as admin on my Javea Connect Facebook group where people

27 Oct, 2019 @ 16:19

Columnists·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

Loraine Gostling’s hysterical histories on how ‘Chris’ Columbus thought he found Japan as Spain celebrates Dia de la Hispanidad

GREETINGS! And for those who have managed to pick up a copy of this week’s edition hot off the press, Happy Columbus Day! This chap Columbus was clearly a meanderer, a bit

13 Oct, 2019 @ 15:00

Columnists·Costa Blanca·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

Loraine Gostling’s weather-won advice on how to prepare for a gota fría

My ponderings over the last week or so obviously took me to floods and the impact of the extreme weather we both enjoy and suffer here on the Costa Blanca. More recently,

5 Oct, 2019 @ 10:30

Columnists·Costa Blanca·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

Arguing with social media idiots just isn’t worth your time, writes columnist Loraine Gostling

HI again Costa Blancans, and welcome to yet another one of my meanders about what’s forefront of my mind when I sit to write my fortnightly 800 words of wisdom for the

21 Aug, 2019 @ 11:00

Columnists·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

The mighty power of Facebook groups is harnessed by Loraine Gostling in the hunt for her missing pooch

My pondering journeys over the last week have taken me to many places. Much of my inspiration for writing this column obviously comes from life experiences, but also from having to be

4 Aug, 2019 @ 10:00

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Loraine Gostling explores our obsession with talking about the weather

NO, I am not going to talk about the weather… And with that opening statement, just how many of you will now turn the page and flip over to page 32? But

22 Jul, 2019 @ 12:20

Columnists·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

Loraine Gostling tells the epic history behind Spain’s Moros y Cristianos festival, all from a crumbling laptop

OK so.. I have poured 5kg of crushed ice in a waterproof cooler bag and placed it strategically between my knees and my poor ageing laptop (aka Steve). I am not sure

6 Jul, 2019 @ 11:05

Columnists·Costa Blanca·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

Loraine Gostling is not the Costa Blanca’s biggest football fan, but does have a soft spot for Jordan Henderson’s dad

ALL hail to the men in red shorts! A fitting start to this week’s page 30 as I was pondering on the dangers and hazards of cleaning BUT this week’s event in

13 Jun, 2019 @ 12:25

Columnists·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

Alicante Airport pandemonium was just about worth it for an English bowl of jellied eels, writes Loraine Gostling

Oh well, it was only 55 minutes, so we could browse the Toblerone and smell the latest designer aromas at leisure in Duty Free

25 May, 2019 @ 10:30

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Cruising along the Costa Blanca can be more terrifying than you think, writes Loraine Gostling

I had never been a risk-taker, I was pretty comfortable financially, I liked my job and everything in life was settled and safe, but just a little boring

12 May, 2019 @ 12:21

Costa Blanca·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

Loraine in Spain

SO I sat myself down on Sunday evening and started to do my usual pondering on what I should write about in my column this week. I had only just put the

5 May, 2019 @ 11:58

Costa Blanca·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

Seize the Day

I PONDER a lot. I waste time on musings and wondering about stuff, and try to look at things from different points of view, and this is why I would never have

25 Apr, 2019 @ 15:29

Costa Blanca·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

The Original LOL

NOW most of you reading this will have been ‘lolling’ for years – firstly, back when it became cool to abbreviate every possible word to make sure a quick text message was

30 Mar, 2019 @ 20:47

Costa Blanca·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected

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