Hastings Battleaxe gets botanical – wild flowers are difficult

It has been so hot….. last week we went for a cool walk along the Royal Military Canal, stopping for a shady picnic by the water.  During our walk, I was struck by the different…

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Stamford, York, Robin Hood’s Bay. Hastings Battleaxe ventures Oop North.

‘Oop North’ as against ‘Dahn Sarth’. I tell you one thing, it’s much warmer and sunnier dahn ‘ere…. We had an action-packed week, seeing so many new places and things. We are very lucky to…

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Visiting Canterbury, Whitstable and Rochester

We are now in the middle of Philosopher’s Birthday Festival season. All this for a man who didn’t want a birthday…..      We reached Canterbury at lunchtime on a hot sunny day, but amazingly, managed…

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Sunny Winchelsea Gardens, staircase retrofitting, making a garden water feature

Philosopher has a big birthday coming up on Monday. He is not at all keen on the idea so I won’t go on about it, but we’ve got a busy time coming up. This is…

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WI Centenary AGM – What it's like to meet the Queen

It was the WI Centenary AGM at the Albert Hall.  I had to go and collect the Lady Denman Cup, which I won last year for writing a poem, ‘What my WI means to me’.…

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