Hastings Battleaxe says ‘There’s nothing like a Dame’

What? Dame Battleaxe? No, sillies, the one in the panto in Eastbourne. Battleaxe and Philosopher went with Shaun, and really enjoyed the show.  Meanwhile, Christmas is over… The weather has been truly terrible… dark, dank,…

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Happy Christmas from Hastings Battleaxe

To start off with, a very Happy Christmas to all Battleaxe readers. It strikes me that these posts have been a bit gloomy for the past few weeks… not surprising, but let’s move on.  This…

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Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 4…. it’s world-beating here in Hastings!

That’s right, Hastings is in Tier 4, having been in Tier 2 just a day or so ago. There’s some new strain of the virus creating havoc, other countries now won’t let us plague-ridden Brits…

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Happy Winter Solstice, Christmas or whatever… and changes afoot…

Today is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year. The ancients thought the sun stopped briefly at this point and indeed, it takes a couple of days for us to measure that the…

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Hastings Battleaxe’s blood pressure rises…

Yes, my actual blood pressure is rising. I had to go down to the doctor earlier in this week. ‘Are you stressed about anything?’ he enquired, after prescribing stronger medication. ‘Well, yes,’ I replied, ‘Christmas,…

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