Happy Christmas from Hastings Battleaxe

It’s nearly here! The house is decorated, the presents are wrapped, the cards are sent. Phew. We spent the last couple of days away, on our Birmingham Christmas visit. Tomorrow we have our annual drinkies…

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Hastings Battleaxe travels to Birmingham in the teeth of Storm Bert…

Why? You may well ask. Ages ago, Battleaxe arranged to go up and meet old colleagues/friends for one of our Castle Vale senior team reunions – we only have them around every five years. Friends…

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Brrrr…. Hastings Battleaxe shivered… and ate.

Hastings Battleaxe shivered? Well, what about all the people who can’t afford to heat their homes at all?  What is the Government doing about it? Less than nothing. Same with them doing anything positive to…

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It’s a Brum ting for Battleaxe’s birthday!

Just back from a few days in Birmingham.  As Battleaxe writes this, she should have been setting off for a holiday in Russia with old friends Sue and Alex. Obviously, that didn’t happen, but as…

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Walking round Moseley…New Year’s Eve…. Blogoversary,

We just got back from a stay in Birmingham visiting friends and family.  It meant I missed my seventh Blogoversary, which was yesterday, and it is now New Year’s Eve. I thought I’d do a…

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