Trans-seasonal dressing, Lifelong Learning, trugs…and fungus

Should Battleaxe be a fashion blogger?  No time really. Too busy with the WI, Writers’ Group, having friends to stay….      Of all the posts I’ve written on my other blog, Bombastic Battleaxe, by far…

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Rye – shopping with Battleaxe

Never mind all ye olde worlde cobbled streets and ancient stones, what we do in Rye is potter round the shops. Given our tastes, it will be a somewhat eccentric collection mentioned here…..      We…

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Buying Clothes for Foxy Battleaxes – why is it a High Street Nightmare?

Why indeed? Buying clothes on the High Street is becoming increasingly difficult, partly because designers seem to be going through a bad patch, but mostly because the shops only cater for skinny young women.  …

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Snowy Hastings…memories of Biba

It has snowed solidly all day so far. I think it is one of the first Sundays I can remember that we have not ventured out of the house at all.  On Friday night we…

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Pett Level – how can a submerged forest be preserved for 6000 years?

Blimey, it is well into January already…..      I have not yet started implementing any of my New Year’s Resolutions.  I never start on 1 January – people are tired and strung out, the fridge…

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