Happy New Year, Happy Blogoversary and Happy sunny day!

It’s New Year’s Eve… 2026 tomorrow. Don’t even ask if Battleaxe is planning a late night celebration – of course she isn’t, we go to bed at 10.00. We have friends coming round at the…

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Happy Christmas from Hastings Battleaxe!

Gulp…What? Oh yes. It’s Christmas! We just got back from our annual Christmas trip to Birmingham. Not quite as usual this time. Ended up staying in a Premier Inn, but had a great outing to…

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Aaargh… it’s nearly here…

What is? Christmas of course… Battleaxe feels all discomobulated. Have been ill with ferocious cold/bad chest which have only just shaken off (touch wood) after over a week. Battleaxe dragged herself out to some Christmas…

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Busy Battleaxe realises Christmas is coming…

Spent a good few hours today sorting Christmas decorations and starting to put them up. Readers will know we make a big thing of having a decorated house – not insanely so with 20 foot…

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Battleaxe revisits her past and appreciates the present

Last weekend Battleaxe and Philosopher went to Buckinghamshire, primarily to attend the funeral of my cousin Nigel (John) Heywood. We stayed the night in High Wycombe, at a Premier Inn, and went to the funeral,…

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