Hastings Battleaxe wonders where the summer has gone…

Indeed, where has the summer gone? It’s the end of August, and today I’m wearing jeans, socks and a fleece.  The weather is dull and grey.  It is hard not to think about the grim…

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Hastings Battleaxe has a lovely break in Maldon, Essex

Yes, Hastings Battleaxe has been to Maldon before – in October 2020. Had a good time back then, but things were still very Covidy.  Here is the post about it. We had vowed to go…

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Barefoot Opera – Orfeo and Zanetto

Just a quick post to say how much Battleaxe enjoyed Barefoot Opera’s double-bill production of Gluck’s Orfeo and the little known Zanetto by Mascagni – at St John The Evangelist church in St Leonard’s last…

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The Bale House at Hastings Country Park… and other things

Battleaxe is getting a bit behind – this visit to the new Bale House Visitor Centre/Cafe in the Country Park was actually just before we went to Folkestone last week, but have been a bit…

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Folkestone – an arty sunny day at the Triennial.

Our Brummie friends Sue and Graham came down to stay, and yesterday we went to Folkestone – they have got into a routine of attending the Triennial when it comes round, and we have been…

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