Battleaxe makes the best of it

It’s hard at times… The Covid situation is getting worse, Brexit is looming up in an ever more horrible manner, and the government is a national and international laughing stock. Well, I would be laughing…

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Hastings Battleaxe is under the weather…

Hastings Battleaxe is under the weather… It has been blazingly hot, hot, hot and yet hotter until this weekend, and is now humid, humid, humid. Other parts of the country have had thunderstorms, but we…

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Coronaworld is sordid – but Hastings Battleaxe counts her blessings

Yes, this week has shown the Great British Public at its worst, and most sordid. The heatwave led to literally millions of people cramming onto beaches around the UK, having public brawls, illegal raves, drunken…

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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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Weekend at Denman with the WI

Have just returned from a full-on and enjoyable weekend at Denman, the WI’s residential college, near Abingdon in Oxfordshire.  Went with three friends from Hastings, read some poetry and spent my days on a singing…

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