Hastings Battleaxe gets Pre-Christmassy

Busy Battleaxe at home, disentangling Christmas lights and disinterring baubles. Busy Battleaxe out and about, eating, drinking and all that. Busy buying presents, wrapping presents, writing cards… eating mince pies, messing up on-line food orders…

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Hastings Pier appears transformed – Battleaxe has a peer.

Well, what is going on at Hastings Pier? It appears transformed… for the better.  Battleaxe devotees will know that I have ranted on about the Pier since this blog first started – my earliest post…

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A tale of three places – Paignton, Poundbury and Hastings Pier

When I last left this blog I was still in holiday mode. Well, that’s long past, but there is still space to look back on three contrasting experiences – a visit to Paignton, taking in…

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Hastings Pier – what a mess. Our own local version of Brexit

Ok, so I said yesterday, gloomily, that I wouldn’t write about the Pier. The weather is even gloomier – but a Pier update is needed. This morning Philosopher and I went down to have a…

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Hastings Battleaxe visits Hastings Pier – what has changed?

On Saturday morning, another beautiful sunny day, Battleaxe and Philosopher went down to Hastngs Pier. We wanted to see what, if anything, had changed since Sheik Abid Gulzar acquired the Pier a month ago. The…

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