Hastings Old Town Open Gardens, garlic in Alexandra Park, and Havelock pub tiles

A nice couple of days doing local things last week.  Open Old Town Gardens were first.  There weren’t that many – a few along Tackleway, and the garden of the Old Rectory B and B…

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Trans-seasonal dressing, Lifelong Learning, trugs…and fungus

Should Battleaxe be a fashion blogger?  No time really. Too busy with the WI, Writers’ Group, having friends to stay….      Of all the posts I’ve written on my other blog, Bombastic Battleaxe, by far…

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Battleaxe goes overland to Berlin

Berlin – TV tower Euro-jaunt: through France, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany to visit Tom in Hannover, then to Berlin….      Got back to find that in our absence a seagull built a nest right outside…

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Spring lovelies…..Pashley Manor tulips

First bluebells of 2013 – Eastbourne, 1 May Busy week.      Had a good couple of days with Sue and Anne from Birmingham – a fine, sunny day walking on Beachy Head, after ride up…

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Jerwood Gallery Hastings: William Scott – at last, an exhibition that Battleaxe likes!

What a fabulous bright day today. Flawless, crystal-bright blue sky. We visited the new William Scott exhibition at the Jerwood.       Called ‘Divided Figure’ it focuses on his drawings and paintings of the female form.…

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