Random round-up post from Hastings Battleaxe

This post is a bit of  a random round-up.  First thing, it was just as well we went to see the Pashley Manor tulips last week – see the last post.  At the weekend we…

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More of Battleaxe’s rural back story… a fatal attraction

Well, our Covid life goes on, doesn’t it?  I said in the previous post about my rural past that I’d do another about a fatal attraction for farmers?  Well, here you are. Now, if anyone…

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Coronaworld is sordid – but Hastings Battleaxe counts her blessings

Yes, this week has shown the Great British Public at its worst, and most sordid. The heatwave led to literally millions of people cramming onto beaches around the UK, having public brawls, illegal raves, drunken…

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Surely not another Coronavirus week? Enough!

Well, at the moment it feels we have got the worst of the old world back, and few of its benefits. On the roads, you take your life in your hands because of crazed speeding…

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How much worse can it all get?

Of course, it could be much worse… we could be flooded out of our home, with everything ruined, no insurance and no hope of selling our house. We could be in Syria. We could be…

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