A very English week with Hastings Battleaxe

This week there was a rumpus about the delivery of  22 million free ‘English’ editions of the Sun. What a waste of paper – I will post ours back using their Freepost if I can…

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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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Hastings Battleaxe gets a pruning at Fairlight Hall

Went on a Pruning Workshop yesterday, organised by Ore in Bloom, and led by Peter, the Fairlight Hall Head Gardener.       I heard about it via the Women’s Institute. Yvonne, who is in my Book…

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Horrors at the White Rock, then Battleaxe the writer gets a boost

I think I can safely say I have never seen anything as bad as the Christmas Crooners show at the White Rock Theatre.     Went on a WI outing. The person who had booked the…

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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…

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