Out and about, shopping in St. Leonard’s, Arts Forum, sea puts on a show

Well, half-term passed – weather was not great, took granddaughter back to Birmingham on Wednesday.  Returned a day early because we were supposed to be staying in Much Wenlock with friends John and Jan, but…

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Stade Colour competition – success….and more successes

In a previous blog post I described how Philosopher and I went down to the Stade so he could take photographs to enter for the Colour on the Stade competition, which is part of the…

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Royal Opera House, National Theatre – in Hastings Odeon…

Well, we have been to sample the ‘live feed’ performances beamed from illustrious temples of Metropolitan culture to us provincial yokels. In our case, down the road in the sticky-floored Hastings Odeon. A couple of…

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Psychology of supermarkets – Winchelsea and Pett

Lordy me, the weather is just terrible today – it has rained solidly.  We have only been out to Sainsburys. The Philosopher said that he doesn’t like how most people in the supermarket look so…

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Badgers appear, for real…..

One thing that surprised us when we came to Hastings was all the talk of badgers.      When we first moved to Harold Road, I brought many plants in pots down from Birmingham, and was…

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