Queen Mary 2 mini-cruise with Hastings Battleaxe

Well, its a bit hard to concentrate on this right now – I have just tested positive for Covid and the Prime Minister has just resigned… But we are back from our four-day mini cruise…

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Hastings Battleaxe joins the Anti-Growth Coalition

What’s the Anti-Growth Coalition you ask? Well, where have you been all last week? I assume you have not attended the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham, in which case I’m afraid you can’t join the…

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What a week – Hastings Battleaxe is exhausted

It started with the Great Funeral Day this time last week, progressed via a visit to Pashley Manor to a day in London to meet my daughter Clara, then a poetry workshop day at Berwick…

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Hastings Battleaxe basks in sunny Sorrento

Had a lovely few days. I was a bit worried that the Imperial Tramontano might have changed after ten years, but no, scarcely at all. They had repainted the outside, redecorated the dining room and…

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All Change for the Nation…Hastings Battleaxe reflects.

Battleaxe couldn’t call herself a blogger if she didn’t write about the events of the last few days. Boris Johnson finally went, to be replaced by the charmless Liz Truss, who promptly appointed a cabinet…

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