Happy Christmas from Hastings Battleaxe

It’s nearly here! The house is decorated, the presents are wrapped, the cards are sent. Phew. We spent the last couple of days away, on our Birmingham Christmas visit. Tomorrow we have our annual drinkies…

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Hastings Battleaxe travels to Birmingham in the teeth of Storm Bert…

Why? You may well ask. Ages ago, Battleaxe arranged to go up and meet old colleagues/friends for one of our Castle Vale senior team reunions – we only have them around every five years. Friends…

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Hastings Battleaxe gets to Unravel at the Barbican.

Unravel, The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, to give the exhibition its full title. Went up to London with friend Jan, who leads on our WI’s craft activities. I am not, by and…

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Brrrr…. Hastings Battleaxe shivered… and ate.

Hastings Battleaxe shivered? Well, what about all the people who can’t afford to heat their homes at all?  What is the Government doing about it? Less than nothing. Same with them doing anything positive to…

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What a week – Hastings Battleaxe is exhausted

It started with the Great Funeral Day this time last week, progressed via a visit to Pashley Manor to a day in London to meet my daughter Clara, then a poetry workshop day at Berwick…

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