Garden day at Winchelsea Beach

Had a nice outing on Saturday to visit a selection of gardens at Winchelsea Beach, open in aid of St Michael’s Hospice. Philosopher and I have walked there many times and admired the houses, and…

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Battleaxe goes to a BBC politics thing – too heated

Last night I went to the BBC South-East recording of their Election Debate, at the Kino Teatr in St Leonard’s – it was a very hot night. It is being shown tonight at 10.45pm –…

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RIP poor badger… many more of them in the garden

Yesterday morning we ran over and killed a badger. Badgers are much on our minds at the moment – our garden, and the gardens of our neighbours, are being over-run…  The sad fatality happened when…

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Battleaxe blinded by bluebells and Blues – and technology!

Well, as you can see, Hastings Battleaxe is in the middle of getting a new look. I thought it was time I updated the appearance of the blog – it hasn’t changed in five years,…

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Battleaxe struggles with smugglers.

Well, not literally. For the next Stanza poetry meeting, Smugglers is the suggested theme. We don’t necessarily have to follow the suggestion, but this time is slightly different.  I don’t know the exact details, but…

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