The Walled Nursery near Hawkhurst – rather a special place

Just returned from a WI Garden visit to the Walled Nursery out near Hawkhurst. We’ve had some excellent outings so far this year. What an attractive, interesting place.  Battleaxe totally recommends….  According to the very…

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Garden Centres and Nurseries near Hastings – some new ones

I’ve done two posts about garden centres before. The first one is now quite old, but remains consistently in the most-visited top ten, and the more recent follow-up, is also very popular.  So, for this post,…

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Down the Hastings to Bexhill Link Road, Birmingham Christmas capers…

This morning I said to Philosopher: ‘Let’s drive down the new Link Road’, (or Combe Valley Way as we are supposed to call it), so we did.     Diligent Battleaxe readers will know that I…

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Farm shops along the A21 – and Merriments Garden Centre

We have made so many journeys up and down the A21 in the past few years, fortnightly from Birmingham for about two years before we finally moved here full-time, and now still on a regular…

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Sissinghurst – eventually! Romney Marsh, Fairlight Hall, busy!

After living down here for nearly three years, we eventually got ourselves to Sissinghurst this week.      Our friends from Birmingham had gone home – see later for our outings to Fairlight Hall etc., and…

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