Combe Valley Countryside Park – an interesting walk

Recently, I went for for an interesting walk round Combe Valley Countryside Park with the WI walking group.      We headed off from the car park by the Hastings Garden Centre up towards the back…

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Sissinghurst – eventually! Romney Marsh, Fairlight Hall, busy!

After living down here for nearly three years, we eventually got ourselves to Sissinghurst this week.      Our friends from Birmingham had gone home – see later for our outings to Fairlight Hall etc., and…

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Rude Mechanicals 'The Wife', in Crowhurst. Battleaxe recommends.

Just a quick update. Last night two old friends came down from Birmingham and, on the suggestion of a neighbour, we went to see the Rude Mechanical Theatre Company in their open-air performance of ‘The…

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Sarah Raven's Garden at Perch Hill – Battleaxe is not a proper lady.

Earlier in the week Battleaxe went on a Women’s Institute outing to Sarah Raven’s garden at Perch Hill Farm, in Brightling, which is in the depths of the country miles from anywhere between Battle and…

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Hastings Battleaxe: living with Seagulls

Many Hastingas don’t like seagulls. Battleaxe is quite fond of them, even though our life now has a constant background accompaniment of screaming, squawking, screeching and chattering. On the Hastings Stade Gulls on the net…

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