Opera at Wetherspoons, jumble sales, Ottolenghi’s and computer traumas….

Phew, Hastings Battleaxe has had a busy week… Opera at Wetherspoons?  Oh yes. In a previous post, I’ve mentioned the Opera House Wetherspoons in Tunbridge Wells, a spectacular and sympathetic conversion from theatre to pub.…

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Visit to Toledo – Battleaxe goes it alone

I’ll just do one more quick post on Spain before catching up with Hastings life. You remember from the last post that Philosopher was poorly – now has terrible cold – and I was going…

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Winter in Madrid

A coincidence. Winter in Madrid by CJ Sansom is our current WI book group read, and here are Battleaxe and Philosopher on a six-day break. I’m finding the book does not help paint a better…

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Marks and Spencer – no, not Alexa Chung!

Surprisingly, a post I wrote around this time last year about the ghastliness of M & S clothes is in Battleaxe’s top ten most viewed posts ever. Given that I have been scuffling round Hastings…

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Battleaxe on cheating death, Lanzarote instead of Tanzania

In my last post about Chichester I mentioned that I had bought expensive walking boots for a charity trek to Tanzania that I never went on, owing to death-cheating happenings. I have been reminded that…

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