Hastings Piano Concerto Competition finals – Battleaxe’s chest expands with pride….

Well, it shouldn’t be my chest that is expanding with pride, but those of the organisers and sponsors. But as a Hastinga, one can’t help basking in reflected glory…. we went to both nights of…

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Toilet protests and music at Fairlight Hall. A day in the life of Battleaxe….

Well, social/local media has been so full of the toilet protest I scarcely want to write about it further, but I’ll sum it up here, and it did make a great contrast with a very…

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Hastings Battleaxe does gardens and music, has a pea at Fairlight Hall…..

Battleaxe visits gardens and goes to a piano recital (and has a pea) at Fairlight Hall. I was going to write another rant about Jeremy Corbyn, leadership and the Labour Party, but do you know…

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Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition finals – Prokofiev surfeit!

For the past two evenings Battleaxe and Philosopher have been down at the White Rock Theatre, for the finals of the annual Hastings number one high culture-fest, the Piano Concerto Competition.    This year was…

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Tunbridge Wells day out and Fairlight Hall piano recital.

Battleaxe never likes trying on clothes in winter, when she is muffled up like a Babushka in thick jumpers, wooly tights, big boots, quilted coat, hat and scarf, but sometimes it Has To be Done.…

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