Is it summer in Hastings? The Church in the Wood.

The weather has gone beserk this month. It is incredibly dry and the garden is like a desert. Despite quite a chilly wind, the sea-front is full of ice-creams and quivering masses of post-winter pale…

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Farm shops along the A21 – and Merriments Garden Centre

We have made so many journeys up and down the A21 in the past few years, fortnightly from Birmingham for about two years before we finally moved here full-time, and now still on a regular…

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Hastings Old Town up-date – Battleaxe on the political war-path

Have been Global Battleaxe rather than Hastings Battleaxe recently, so thought I’d better check out what is happening locally.  I’m starting with the Old Town, will do the town centre and St Leonard’s shortly.     …

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Sennen Cove, Cornwall – with background coughing….

Back from Cornwall a day early. Just before we went I was suffering from a horrible chest cold virus. Well, the first part of the week I was wheezy, weak and feeble, then the second…

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Battleaxe’s downstairs loo – an insider’s view

You know you want to! This is a quick post before I go away to Cornwall for a week, for our annual stay in Sennen Cove with Brummie friends.    So, where were we in…

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