Spring? Hastings Battleaxe eats outside for the first time….

Well, the weather is totally crazy in Hastings. Wednesday was freezing cold, howling gale, snow and sleet. Yesterday was mild, wind free and sunny.  I sat outside for coffee in town, and then ate lunch…

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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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