Hastings LOL cat beats February blues!

February today…… days are getting longer….but still wet..wet…wet. Well, here’s a surprise to start with – we have unexpectedly been allocated a brown garden waste recycling bin. The two year wait ranted about earlier this…

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Buying Clothes for Foxy Battleaxes – why is it a High Street Nightmare?

Why indeed? Buying clothes on the High Street is becoming increasingly difficult, partly because designers seem to be going through a bad patch, but mostly because the shops only cater for skinny young women.  …

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Snowy Hastings…memories of Biba

It has snowed solidly all day so far. I think it is one of the first Sundays I can remember that we have not ventured out of the house at all.  On Friday night we…

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Holman Hunt in the Tate – and at Clive Vale Farm

We went up to London to see the Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition at Tate Britain…. Viewing big exhibitions is an absolute ordeal.. The massive crowds are soul-destroying. This was in its last few days, so we thought…

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All Saints Street, Hastings – curious things…and Life of Pi

Well, hard times are here – the post Christmas diet has started. No alcohol during the week, only one square of chocolate a night…. urgh.  More walking is needed, too, so when yesterday there was a…

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