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…
View PostBattleaxe 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…
View PostHaving 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,…
View PostDid 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…
View PostCirali has developed in our absence, and seems to have jumped forward since our holiday last year. The main village street has been paved, there are more shops, a cash point, and most surprising, rows…
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