Hastings Battleaxe revisits Boscastle

This is the second of my Cornwall posts. Back in the 1990s/early 2000s Battleaxe and Philosopher used to have spring holidays in Boscastle, north Cornwall. We lived in Birmingham back then, so the journey to…

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Hastings Battleaxe goes to Cornwall – Marazion

Battleaxe is doing two posts: this first one will be about our annual week-long trip with our old friends from Birmingham, Sue and Alex and Sue and Graham. The second one will be about  revisiting…

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Hastings Battleaxe wakes up to uncomfortable local political realities…

Battleaxe is on the political warpath again. Recently, I have tried not to get hung up on international or national politics. Bad for the mental health. I do try to keep myself up-to-date with Trump, …

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Hastings Battleaxe enjoys the sun in Tenterden

We have had some fabulous sunny weather recently, and we went for an outing to Tenterden. We go reasonably often, but have not written a blog post about the place for years. Not since 2016…

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Hastings Battleaxe goes to Portugal

It has become an annual routine – a night in Faro, then up to rural Sao Marcos da Serra to spend a few nights with daughter Clara, her husband Steve and grand-daughter Eve, then, this…

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