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…
View PostNo, 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…
View PostHave 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…
View PostAnother year has passed, the sixth year of our WI vintage refreshment room upstairs at the Jenny Lind on the day of the Hastings Jack-in-the- Green parade. Needless to say, our tireless WI women did…
View PostSunday was Armistice Day 2018 – the 11th day of the 11th month, exactly 100 years after the end of WW1. A significant and poignant anniversary. The country was flooded in a red poppy tide,…
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