Cold week – Writers’s Group. Women’s Institute, Winchelsea – and Waitrose.

This post is a bit of a mixture – a busy week in totally depressing weather. Have also developed an unhealthy interest in food. Hard to believe this time last year we were basking in…

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Sennen Cove, Cornwall. We miss Hastings white-out…and family memories

Back from our week in Sennen Cove, Cornwall, with friends from Birmingham Sue and Alex, Anne, Sue and Graham. We go every year, walk, natter, drink and eat far too many enormous meals.      The…

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Ice age Art at the British Museum – is spring here?

We visited the Ice Age Art exhibition at the British Museum this week…. Beautiful sunny spring day both in Hastings and London.       I always like the re-designed inner courtyard of the Museum – the roof…

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Gaunt Posh, freezing cold – and many gas men

Gaunt Posh? Gaunt Steph?  Gaunt Steph Gaunt? Some hopes of that.  It is a sad fact, that as Battleaxes get older, they get more solid. Not necessarily fatter, just solid – hard to reduce.      …

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Biba in Brighton, Rigoletto in Hastings, strange goings-on at the De La Warr.

We went over to Brighton on the train to visit the Biba exhibition at the Museum – and to have a sunny day out.       Given that we had a flat in Brighton (or ‘Hove…

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