Comrades in Art exhibition at the Towner and other things…

What an unexpected pleasure! ‘Comrades in Art: Artists against Fascism’, a really great exhibition, dominated Battleaxe’s week. It even overshadowed a frazzlingly hot visit to Great Dixter, meeting friend Jan’s grandson for the first time,…

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Hastings Battleaxe battles on…

Battle? What is that about? Well, Battleaxe hasn’t been too well for the last few days. The stress of giving birth to the novel can’t have helped.  One is not as young as one was,…

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Hastings Battleaxe comes late to the Turner Prize party

Late indeed. The Turner Prize exhibition of the short-listed work by four artists has been on at the Towner in Eastbourne since September, and the prize was awarded in December, to Jesse Darling, for his…

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Battleaxe bakes at Beachy Head and enjoys the Towner Gallery

Hastings Battleaxe has been very busy the last couple of weeks, and this blog has got a bit behind… I’m going to concentrate on an outing when one of Philosopher’s old students, from Hong Kong,…

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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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