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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Battleaxe at Conquest Friends Garden Fete at Fairlight Hall

Do you know something? Am realising that maybe I’m not as young as I was. Spent the whole day on Sunday rushing round the gardens at Fairlight Hall as Volunteer Co-ordinator at the Friends Garden…

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Battleaxe bakes at Beachy Head and enjoys the Towner Gallery

Hastings Battleaxe has been very busy the last couple of weeks, and this blog has got a bit behind… I’m going to concentrate on an outing when one of Philosopher’s old students, from Hong Kong,…

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