Books and bindings in Hastings Old Town, and fishing boats beat the weather,

Battleaxe and Philosopher discovered Hare and Hawthorn in West Street by chance, while cutting across to George Street. It is a great little place, but quite tucked away, so I thought I’d give it a…

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Hastings Battleaxe: living with Seagulls

Many Hastingas don’t like seagulls. Battleaxe is quite fond of them, even though our life now has a constant background accompaniment of screaming, squawking, screeching and chattering. On the Hastings Stade Gulls on the net…

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We thought it was always sunny at the seaside….

Looking across the valley to the Country Park (we have a house in Harold Road), I see the rain sweeping past the window in great billowing gusts.    The ‘Harold Road Surgery’ sign has blown down…

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