Hastings Battleaxe steps down….

A quick post. Hastings Battleaxe steps down from what?  Being the President of Hastings Ore WI, which I have done for the last five years. Why? It has to be done, to allow the group…

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‘Beloved Clara’ at St Mary in the Castle

‘Beloved Clara’ was a musical/dramatic event about Clara Schumann, arranged by Lucy Parham, starring Sir Simon Russell Beale and Lesley Sharp. What were such luminaries doing in Hastings on a Sunday afternoon in November? Well,…

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Cinema at the Sussex Exchange. Just the thing for this weather.

Weather? Don’t get me started. On Saturday it felt as if we’d been blown clean through a portal into Brexit-Never-Neverland Hell by contnuous howling gales and lashing rain. On Sunday, we were sitting outside in…

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Rigoletto at Glyndebourne

That time of year already! Battleaxe readers will know that every year we go to over for one of the afternoon pre-tour productions. This year it was Rigoletto, and we went with friends Shaun, Bob…

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Weekend at Denman with the WI

Have just returned from a full-on and enjoyable weekend at Denman, the WI’s residential college, near Abingdon in Oxfordshire.  Went with three friends from Hastings, read some poetry and spent my days on a singing…

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