An arty update from Hastings Battleaxe

Sorry readers, time has flown past yet again… Battleaxe has been busy.  We had our old friends Sue and Alex down to stay for their annual September visit – the weather was so hot it…

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Hastings Battleaxe wonders where the summer has gone…

Indeed, where has the summer gone? It’s the end of August, and today I’m wearing jeans, socks and a fleece.  The weather is dull and grey.  It is hard not to think about the grim…

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Hastings Battleaxe has a lovely break in Maldon, Essex

Yes, Hastings Battleaxe has been to Maldon before – in October 2020. Had a good time back then, but things were still very Covidy.  Here is the post about it. We had vowed to go…

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Barefoot Opera – Orfeo and Zanetto

Just a quick post to say how much Battleaxe enjoyed Barefoot Opera’s double-bill production of Gluck’s Orfeo and the little known Zanetto by Mascagni – at St John The Evangelist church in St Leonard’s last…

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The Bale House at Hastings Country Park… and other things

Battleaxe is getting a bit behind – this visit to the new Bale House Visitor Centre/Cafe in the Country Park was actually just before we went to Folkestone last week, but have been a bit…

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