Hastings Battleaxe learns her lesson – at the St Leonard's Festival

Right. Battleaxe knows this now.  She is not a performance poet. At least, not the sort that performs spontaneously at festivals. Our Hastings Stanza group was taking part in the poetry bit of the St…

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Blacksmiths, Art Boot Fair, Pirate Day – Hastings round-up

Well, following last weekend, Hastings life has been busy.  We enjoyed seeing Leigh Dyer and his Blacksmiths on the Beach, went to the Art Boot Fair and mingled with celebs, and Battleaxe got stuck in…

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Hastings Battleaxe does gardens and music, has a pea at Fairlight Hall…..

Battleaxe visits gardens and goes to a piano recital (and has a pea) at Fairlight Hall. I was going to write another rant about Jeremy Corbyn, leadership and the Labour Party, but do you know…

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Will Hastings Battleaxe get political?

Oh, of course Battleaxe will get political, she wouldn’t be a Battleaxe otherwise, would she?  I don’t think anyone could ignore what’s been happening round here – we must be the laughing stock of the…

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Bournemouth, Swanage, Portsmouth – travels with Battleaxe, three piers!

Excellent few days break, starting in Bournemouth (where they charge to go on a pier not nearly as good as Hastings), to Swanage, then up to Portsmouth and the Historic Dockyard, staying in Southsea.  …

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