Rye – shopping with Battleaxe

Never mind all ye olde worlde cobbled streets and ancient stones, what we do in Rye is potter round the shops. Given our tastes, it will be a somewhat eccentric collection mentioned here…..      We…

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A Sunny Hastings day…West Hill, old military vehicles, dead Maggie Thatcher…

Sunshine….well there was, honestly – it was there on Sunday. Maggie Thatcher died yesterday – media in a frenzy of overblown adulation, Facebook in a frenzy of overblown loathing. Personally I can’t get worked up…

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Hastings to Bexhill cycle path – cold walks

 Well, the morning sun has streamed through my study window the last couple of days – I had to draw the curtain to keep it out. There have still been frosts, though, and it is…

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Running the Hastings Half-Marathon, Good Friday Passion in Hastings Old Town

Last blog post for this month…..Easter and still no spring weather. Earlier in the week I had to resort to writing a Bombastic Battleaxe post on spaghetti poodles to cheer myself up.      We…

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Cold week – Writers’s Group. Women’s Institute, Winchelsea – and Waitrose.

This post is a bit of a mixture – a busy week in totally depressing weather. Have also developed an unhealthy interest in food. Hard to believe this time last year we were basking in…

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