Breathe in the lavender….and relax?

Relax? Well, if you count enforced relaxation due to the heat. It does get a bit boring. Yesterday Philosopher and I decided, heat or not, we’d have to do something, so we went to see…

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Seeing Hastings through different eyes

Well, we deserved a rest after all that rushing about the country, and for the past ten days we have been having a quieter time back in Hastings. Some of that time it was so…

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Good and bad Monmouth and Bristol weekend

Now back in Hastings to searing heat. Hot, hot, hot and hotter. Yes, we had a mixed weekend. More good than bad, but we had a terrible day on Friday – totally failed to get…

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Battleaxe lunches in style at St John’s College Cambridge.

We are back from a weekend in Cambridge, where Philosopher went to St John’s College as a young man. Would you believe he started in 1963? Anyway, every so often they arrange lunches for selected…

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Racing for Life and WI book talk

Last Sunday Battleaxe joined her WI colleagues for the Cancer Research Race for Life in  Alexandra Park. I realise that we have been doing this as a WI for ten years – have the medals…

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