Coronavirus – Lockdown Week 3 with Hastings Battleaxe

Right now, our world could not be weirder. Here we all are, two and a bit weeks in, still at home in a silenced, shut down country, and Johnson is in intensive care. The virus…

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Hastings Battleaxe and the Puppini Sisters

No, she wasn’t actually on stage with them… Hastings Battleaxe went to see the Puppini Sisters, with the Pasadena Roof Orchestra, at St Mary in the Castle, on Saturday night. I love that close harmony…

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Hastings Battleaxe and Storm Ciara

Firstly, all, you pronouce it Ki-ara, not Keera… The big story was watching the lifeboat struggling to land down by the sea. Have just passed up the chance of my five minutes of fame to…

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Living on the margins with Hastings Battleaxe

Battleaxe is just beginning life on the margins, firstly as a European, but also as part of an endangered minority – a member of the soft left/Centre whatever you call it thse days, and as…

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Our last days in the EU – some good, some less so…

We are now in our last week before we leave the EU… I won’t go on about it, but it hovers at the edge of my consciousness like a nasty floater in the eye. Life…

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