‘Beloved Clara’ was a musical/dramatic event about Clara Schumann, arranged by Lucy Parham, starring Sir Simon Russell Beale and Lesley Sharp. What were such luminaries doing in Hastings on a Sunday afternoon in November? Well,…
View PostWeather? Don’t get me started. On Saturday it felt as if we’d been blown clean through a portal into Brexit-Never-Neverland Hell by contnuous howling gales and lashing rain. On Sunday, we were sitting outside in…
View PostThat time of year already! Battleaxe readers will know that every year we go to over for one of the afternoon pre-tour productions. This year it was Rigoletto, and we went with friends Shaun, Bob…
View PostHave just returned from a full-on and enjoyable weekend at Denman, the WI’s residential college, near Abingdon in Oxfordshire. Went with three friends from Hastings, read some poetry and spent my days on a singing…
View PostI feel so guilty – have not posted on here for two weeks – the longest ever gap. But the state of the nation is just unbelievably appalling, the weather has been horrible – what…
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