Shops are open… but Battleaxe fears for Hastings

Yes, the shops are open. We are, for some reason best known to the Government, in Tier 2, and the outlook for Hastings does not look good.  Clearly, the worst thing is the closure of…

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What a week… All about Eve?

What a week indeed… Yes, we went to see that film, along with much more pre-lockdown socialising, but as well as grand-daughter Eve, this post also has exciting news about my daughter and my acquisition…

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Hastings Battleaxe is under the weather…

Hastings Battleaxe is under the weather… It has been blazingly hot, hot, hot and yet hotter until this weekend, and is now humid, humid, humid. Other parts of the country have had thunderstorms, but we…

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RIP poor badger… many more of them in the garden

Yesterday morning we ran over and killed a badger. Badgers are much on our minds at the moment – our garden, and the gardens of our neighbours, are being over-run…  The sad fatality happened when…

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Hastings Battleaxe hangs out in Eastbourne

Spent the day in Eastbourne yesterday – keeping Philosopher, and our car, company. Went to the Towner Gallery, Beachy Head, Waitrose- such excitements! Sunny, but cold, on Eastbourne Beach       Our old friends Sue and…

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