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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Life in the time of CoronaVirus

Back on March 6 Battleaxe used the headline ‘How Much Worse can it all get?’ Well, a fat lot I knew. Now look at us. The country is in so-called ‘Lock-down’.  Surprisingly enough, I feel…

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Hastings Battleaxe returns from Cornwall amid Covid chaos…

Hastings Battleaxe was born in December 2011, as a way of letting our friends and family back in Birmingham know about our new life here in Hastings. Now, in March 2020, Battleaxe is still going…

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How much worse can it all get?

Of course, it could be much worse… we could be flooded out of our home, with everything ruined, no insurance and no hope of selling our house. We could be in Syria. We could be…

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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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