Madame Butterfly at the White Rock, WI outing, Animal Writes

Last year we went to Opera South-East’s Nabucco, and enjoyed it immensely. It was gripping, well produced, and well sung, so we had high hopes of this production of Madam Butterfly.      We started the…

View Post

Ooh Aaaargh – Hastings Pirate Day!

Phewie – what a scorcher it was. I eventually decided against a corset – thought I would pass out.      We hit town about 11am., dressed in aaargh best. Walked down exchanging ooh arrghs with…

View Post

Beef, Bazaar…..all boiling

Weather now fabulous, I remember now why I wanted this house to have a big folding door opening wide to the garden….       Another busy few days. The new Hastings Writers’ Group website went ‘live’ on…

View Post

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…

View Post

Cold week – Writers’s Group. Women’s Institute, Winchelsea – and Waitrose.

This post is a bit of a mixture – a busy week in totally depressing weather. Have also developed an unhealthy interest in food. Hard to believe this time last year we were basking in…

View Post