Jack-in-the-Green WI style, and then Bad Things happen

It started so well. A sunny May-day Monday saw the usual massive celebrations in Hastings, the Jack-in-the Green festival that fills the Old Town and the West Hill, and a huge motorbike rally that takes…

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In praise of the WI

Battleaxe is feeling especially warm towards the WI sisterhood because our Hastings Ore WI Winter Bazaar was so successful – we raised over £1,300.      Such events are massive feats of enterprise and organisation for…

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Sarah Raven's Garden at Perch Hill – Battleaxe is not a proper lady.

Earlier in the week Battleaxe went on a Women’s Institute outing to Sarah Raven’s garden at Perch Hill Farm, in Brightling, which is in the depths of the country miles from anywhere between Battle and…

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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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