Hastings Battleaxe hits the Chelsea Flower Show.

Well, you have to go once, don’t you?  We’ve never been to the Chelsea Flower Show, and thought we’d give it a try. Who knows, we may have become avid Chelsea addicts. We enjoyed our…

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Hastings Pier official opening, Shanty Singers….busy

Just a quick fill-in.. It was the official opening of Hastings Pier on Saturday, and in the evening we went to a Shanty Singing session.  Been very busy with WI things, garden full of baby…

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Hamburg and other North German adventures with Hastings Battleaxe.

They all blur into one – Rathauses, Hauptbahnhofs, Doms, Schlosses, Grosmarkts… We are just back from Germany, starting in Hamburg, then on to Hannover, with visits to Braunschweig and Hildesheim.  Walked miles, had traumatic encounter…

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Alexandra Park – Miniature railway and wild garlic

Hastings Battleaxe readers will know that each year, we make a pilgrimage to the very top corner of Alexandra Park to visit the wild garlic wood.  Even though we had seen such a fantastic display…

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Hole Park Gardens – totally fabulous and magical

People have told me that Hole Park Garden is a ‘must visit’ for the bluebells, but Battleaxe hadn’t realised just what a wonderful place it is.  We went just in time to catch the bluebells…

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