Hastings Battleaxe enjoys a windy week in Cornwall.

Back to our old Spring routine of a week in Cornwall, staying in the lovely old Myrtle House in Penzance with old friends Sue and Alex and Sue and Graham, from Birmingham. Last year we…

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Back in Hastings… Hello Villa Belvedere!

Villa what? Yes, you heard right… our house has gone a bit pseudo-Italian. You may rightly think it is a bit naff but do you know what? Battleaxe really doesn’t care. We have been back…

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Hastings Battleaxe plods on – stormy weather, post-Covid fatigue

The last post ended with ‘What next we ask ourselves? Storm clouds ahead.’  Well, over a week later, the answer is more of the same. The weather is grim – brief interludes of sun interspersed…

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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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Random round-up post from Hastings Battleaxe

This post is a bit of  a random round-up.  First thing, it was just as well we went to see the Pashley Manor tulips last week – see the last post.  At the weekend we…

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