New computer, WI Speaker Selection, and spring flowers

Slight delay in posting, Battleaxe has been somewhat busy.       First thing, I have got a new computer. The old one was Windows XP and Office 2003, and had got so slow I could make,…

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Weather gone mad – and Hastings Battleaxe M and S fashion tip.

Well, we survived the pre-Christmas Eve storm relatively OK – the wind kept us awake most of the night – at its peak, gusts bashed and bludgeoned the house so violently it was quite frightening.…

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Our garden…all is well.

I thought I’d start this month’s posts with a nice soothing piece about our own garden.      I am very pleased with the way it looks now compared with how it was when we first…

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Battleaxe domestic dramas – oven cleaning, computers…

Let’s get this straight from the start, I’m no domestic goddess (concept now discredited. It puzzles me why that Nigella just didn’t lamp the old bully with a cast-iron skillet.). Anyway, if there was a…

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Senior screen, pink azaleas, badger cull and too much cake!

     Not the best week really.  Weather was lovely last Sunday and Monday, and we did lots of gardening, but it has been dull, cold, wet and grey since.  I have had sinus trouble –…

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