Hastings Old Town Gardens – and a visit to the Crown

Just a quick post – down to the Old Town to visit a few open gardens, and rectifying an omission – one of the places to be in Hastings is the Crown pub in All…

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Hole Park Gardens – totally fabulous and magical

People have told me that Hole Park Garden is a ‘must visit’ for the bluebells, but Battleaxe hadn’t realised just what a wonderful place it is.  We went just in time to catch the bluebells…

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Sunny Winchelsea Gardens, staircase retrofitting, making a garden water feature

Philosopher has a big birthday coming up on Monday. He is not at all keen on the idea so I won’t go on about it, but we’ve got a busy time coming up. This is…

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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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