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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Beautiful Alexandra Park in Hastings… being….calm…

It is Election Day. It’s pouring with rain. It’s a dark day. Philosopher and I have just been out to vote. So, let’s finally forget it.  Let’s forget the utterly dismal political situation, the frenzy…

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Selling poetry for Sara Lee – and a concert with the London Mozart Players

Had a busy day on Saturday… in the afternoon I had been given a stall at the Sara Lee Trust Christmas Sale, to sell ‘Lines and Wrinkles’, and in the evening we went to a…

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‘Beloved Clara’ at St Mary in the Castle

‘Beloved Clara’ was a musical/dramatic event about Clara Schumann, arranged by Lucy Parham, starring Sir Simon Russell Beale and Lesley Sharp. What were such luminaries doing in Hastings on a Sunday afternoon in November? Well,…

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Cinema at the Sussex Exchange. Just the thing for this weather.

Weather? Don’t get me started. On Saturday it felt as if we’d been blown clean through a portal into Brexit-Never-Neverland Hell by contnuous howling gales and lashing rain. On Sunday, we were sitting outside in…

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