Hastings Battleaxe joins the Anti-Growth Coalition

What’s the Anti-Growth Coalition you ask? Well, where have you been all last week? I assume you have not attended the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham, in which case I’m afraid you can’t join the…

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Battleaxe has a stressful day in London…

Firstly, round here, Sussex is shrivelling up… the dreaded Southern Water has imposed a hosepipe ban in Hampshire already – but why not here? It must happen any day.  Yesterday we went for a walk…

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Hot hot and hotter… Tories self-immolate

Yeah well, Europe burns (literally) in record climate-change created heat, and our country is totally ungoverned as the Tories go even more rogue than usual, aided and abetted by the right-wing press. Who cares which…

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Family visit – and Election puzzle…

Hastings Battleaxe’s life continues to get back to normality.  Philosopher is so much better…  A few weeks ago I was afraid we’d never get here, but we have. This weekend we were visited by Philosopher’s…

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Light at the end of the tunnel…

Well, that only applies to this personal tunnel. I don’t think it is an approaching train, touch wood. Philosopher is getting slowly and steadily better. His appetite has improved, his wound is healed, and he…

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