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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Winchelsea walk, wet in Rye and the Jerwood’s latest exhibitions

Let’s start with a nice autumn outing – the weather has been all over the place. Friday was fabulous, and we went for a lovely walk round Winchelsea.  Started off with coffee and homemade Battenberg…

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Off to Turkey – and ghostly goings-on

After months of scorching Hastings we are off to even more scorching Turkey for two weeks, so this may be the last blog post for a fortnight. Cirali, Turkey      We are going to a…

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