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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A very English week with Hastings Battleaxe

This week there was a rumpus about the delivery of  22 million free ‘English’ editions of the Sun. What a waste of paper – I will post ours back using their Freepost if I can…

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Smallhythe Place, Ellen Terry – further Kent explorations.

After the caffeine-fuelled excitement of the Coffee places post, I thought I’d relax a little. Last weekend our friends John and Jan came to stay for a couple of days. John was brought up near…

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Best coffee places in Hastings, Battleaxe's favourites

I love a good cup of coffee and a nice piece of cake. Philosopher and I indulge most days.      Back in November 2012, I wrote ‘The Good Scone Guide to Hastings’ for the Hastings…

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Hastings Battleaxe update – best shops and garden centres

I was all ready to post ‘Best Coffee places’ but there was a very bad fire in Hastings Old Town the other night and my favourite, Hanushka in George Street, may have been damaged. We…

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