Rude Mechanicals 'The Wife', in Crowhurst. Battleaxe recommends.

Just a quick update. Last night two old friends came down from Birmingham and, on the suggestion of a neighbour, we went to see the Rude Mechanical Theatre Company in their open-air performance of ‘The…

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Sarah Raven's Garden at Perch Hill – Battleaxe is not a proper lady.

Earlier in the week Battleaxe went on a Women’s Institute outing to Sarah Raven’s garden at Perch Hill Farm, in Brightling, which is in the depths of the country miles from anywhere between Battle and…

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Hastings Battleaxe: living with Seagulls

Many Hastingas don’t like seagulls. Battleaxe is quite fond of them, even though our life now has a constant background accompaniment of screaming, squawking, screeching and chattering. On the Hastings Stade Gulls on the net…

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A very English week with Hastings Battleaxe

This week there was a rumpus about the delivery of  22 million free ‘English’ editions of the Sun. What a waste of paper – I will post ours back using their Freepost if I can…

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Smallhythe Place, Ellen Terry – further Kent explorations.

After the caffeine-fuelled excitement of the Coffee places post, I thought I’d relax a little. Last weekend our friends John and Jan came to stay for a couple of days. John was brought up near…

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