Hastings Battleaxe on Coastal Currents and... - Hastings Battleaxe And what? Wait and see. I didn’t want to post a proper review of it for fear of upsetting the organisers. Coastal Currents? Didn’t do much, actually, just visited some Open Studios with Philosopher an...

#HastingsBattleaxe visits some of the Coastal Currents Festival Open Studios. Here are some lovely flowers at the Crown. Visited local artists Dominic Zwemmer, and the excellent leigh Dyer, to whom we donated the Family Fly-press way back in 2012.
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#HastingsBattleaxe went to #Bristol last weekend. Photo is of river walk near the Snuff Mills. At home, had time to look at a few more #Hastings loos. Horrified at the state of our poor Pier.
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Seal

#HastingsBattleaxe gets on with more things - writing, dentists, bluebells, more loos, animals... this #seal looks cuddly, but was he?
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#HastingsBattleaxe has been very busy... two trips to London, a trip to meet my book cover designer in Brighton, more loo surveying... here's a very dodgy product from the Taj supermarket in #Brighton...

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The Ladies loo at The Ritz, London

By popular request, #HastingsBattleaxe embarks on the Great Loo Survey of #Hastings and #StLeonards... First, I don’t care who uses the loos I am in provided they keep to themselves. There are no loos this round here. This is the Ritz, in London.
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Fox,looking at the camera

A mixed post about life in #Hastings. Lovely #fox and #HastingsBattleaxe is getting ready to put her novel on Kindle...
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Hastings Battleaxe goes to Cornwall - Marazion - Hastings Battleaxe Battleaxe is doing two posts: this first one will be about our annual week-long trip with our old friends from Birmingham, Sue and Alex and Sue and Graham. The second one will be about  revisiting…

#HastingsBattleaxe is home from Cornwall. This first post is about our week in #Marazion. #StMichaelsMount
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#HastingsBattleaxe is on the political warpath again - this time about the plans for #Sussex #Devolution. #Hastings is struggling, feels forgotten already. How can devolution help us?

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When I first joined here I put FBPE on my profile and got a pile of followers I don’t really want… it is much better to have quality rather than quantity. Fewer followers equals more interaction. However, I do like getting more readers for my #HastingsBattleaxe blog!

#HastingsBattleaxe enjoys a trip to London and a chilly walk in #StLeonard’s. This is St Leonard’s Gardens, laid out by Decimus Burton www.hastingsbattleaxe.com/2025/02/hast...

Snowdrops

#HastingsBattleaxe meets her nieces, learns about London Livery Companies, goes to #Charleston.

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And #HastingsBattleaxe

I have much resolve (after all, I am the #HastingsBattleaxe) but too little time. The Leaders of the Great Powers need to be mobilised but I have to go to Aldi and get some Valentine’s Day heart-shaped pink bao buns for my beloved… (note, not dumplings)

#HastingsBattleaxe hasn’t been feeling very enthusiastic about life, but enjoyed the Letiza Battaglia exhibition about 70’s life in Sicily at the #PhotographersGallery. A very brave woman. www.hastingsbattleaxe.com/2025/02/batt...

#HastingsBattleaxe reports back on her trip to #Malaga, including a very cold day in #Ronda.

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Taiwanese grass jelly

#HastingsBattleaxe does a #poetry reading and comments on changes at the #HastingsContemporary gallery. With added grass jelly www.hastingsbattleaxe.com/2025/01/poet...

Frosty scene of trees..

#HastingsBattleaxe has posted some lovely frosty photos of #Hastings - and, as usual, rabbits on about other things… www.hastingsbattleaxe.com/2025/01/frrr...

#HastingsBattleaxe gets stuck into 2025 - with lots of #seals www.hastingsbattleaxe.com/2025/01/gett...

Happy Christmas from #HastingsBattleaxe. Here’s Jayne Mansfield pretending to decorate her Christmas tree in a very unsuitable dress. More in the blog post.

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Decorated fireplace

#HastingsBattleaxe is at it again, with some good news and some very disappointing news. But Battleaxe is gearing up for Christmas, watching #Strictly on a rare quiet night at home.

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Hastings Battleaxe enjoys the Bedgbury Christmas lights with the Mallydams gang - Hastings Battleaxe Yes, the annual Christmas light display at the Bedgbury National Pinetum, near Flimwell. Battleaxe joined the Christmas outing for RSPCA Mallydams staff and volunteers.  It was a clear, dry, mild even...

Lovely lights with #HastingsBattleaxe

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Lights in Birmingham City Centre

#HastingsBattleaxe goes to #Birmingham to meet old colleagues/friends, struggles through Storm Bert, enjoys the lights…
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Woman in waterproofs

#HastingsBattleaxe poses in her deeply flattering all-over waterproofs at Mallydams, and does a spot of pre-Christmas curating.
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#HastingsBattleaxe goes to London twice in one week. Loves the art in the #CourtauldGallery. Look at this radiant Monet. www.hastingsbattleaxe.com/2024/11/hast...

Am suddenly getting hundreds of new followers. Many arriving via the #FBPE route. It is a bit overwhelming… I like to look into each one before deciding to follow back. People with no posts of their own, just reposts, don’t get followed. But welcome all of you to #HastingsBattleaxe world!

Badger on

#HastingsBattleaxe reflects on the past week. Here’s a lovely badger patient at Mallydams. www.hastingsbattleaxe.com/2024/11/and-...

I’m pretty aged, I live loads of life, I have been known to be friendly - and I write a blog…. #HastingsBattleaxe

#HastingsBattleaxe has had a bad week - missed first #seal release of the year from Mallydams because of bad back, clocks went back, had Covid jab. @dailyseals.bsky.social

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Random catchup with Hastings Battleaxe - Hastings Battleaxe How is it that I am always at least a week behind in Battleaxe-world?  Once and for all, let’s try and catch up. This is pretty random. A genetic test at Guy’s Hospital last week…

Latest from #HastingsBattleaxe. Talking seriously about #genetictesting, but also more about working with wild animals… here is a sparrow hawk in our garden… www.hastingsbattleaxe.com/2024/10/rand...

Chichester Cathedral.

#HastingsBattleaxe visits Chichester yet again. Cathedral tales, shops and still-life at the #PallantHouseGallery. We stayed in the house on the left below.

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