Bratby Selection Day at the Jerwood – our pictures take part!

‘Everything but the Kitchen Sink including the kitchen sink’. That’s the title of the forthcoming John Bratby exhibition at the Jerwood, coming in January 2016. They invited people to submit their own Bratbys for the…

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Conquest Hospital again….. Gallbladder this time!

The NHS may be in crisis, the Conquest Hospital in Hastings is now in ‘Special Measures’, but Battleaxe’s treatment has been just fine, thanks. Am just emerging into the land of the living from an operation…

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Scotney Castle – beautiful Autumn visit

Battleaxe is clearly having a National Trust moment. Less than a week after Bateman’s we decided to go to Scotney Castle. I hardly dare confess that we had never visited after travelling past it on…

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Bateman's at Burwash – a WI outing

Having returned from Turkey in the small hours, later the same day Battleaxe was lurching through the Sussex lanes on a coach. Feeling very groggy, she was with twenty-five cheerful WI ladies, heading for Bateman’s,…

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Scary Turkish storms and Turkish Bayram

Did I say Cirali was quiet?  Well, not now.  Turns out this week is a national holiday for a big Muslim festival and the place is absolutely packed with Turkish families. Many small children running…

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