Recently, Hastings Battleaxe, aka Stephanie Gaunt, went for for an interesting walk round Combe Valley Countryside Park with the WI walking group. They headed off from the car park by the Hastings Garden Centre up towards the back of the Pebsham landfill site. This is her blog.
Dressing-up has never really done it for me. I usually think of it as the last refuge of the bored, like Marie-Antoinette dressing up as a shepherdess at Versailles. My heart sinks at the thought of those parties of Vicars and Tarts or invitations accompanied by a note that the theme of the evening is Donald Duck, writes Antony Mair.
Laetitia Yhap is very well known among Hastings townsfolk as a chronicler in pictures of Hastings fisherfolk, but anyone who has ever sung in a choir here is likely to know her for her predilection to sing. Her latest project to sing with the Herring Girls choir in a drama with music called Get Up And Tie Your Fingers is another way to chronicle the lives of fisherfolk and has caused her to reflect on the part sea fishing has played in her life.
Campaigners from the Bexhill and Hastings World Development Movement (WDM) group held a Stop Bankrolling Coal walking tour of Bexhill on Saturday 19 July, to highlight the role of UK high street banks in financing the destructive coal industry worldwide. Christina Lucey reports.
Electric Palace cinema is once again bringing the sights and sounds of the Summer music festivals to your doorstep, with its annual Summer Music Season. For 2014, the cinema is hosting a range of music-themed events, including live gigs, guest Q&As, opera and dance workshops, an outdoor event and ‘David Quantick Introduces…’ sessions, writes Annie Waite.
Sean O’ Shea talks with Sian Hayward of Rattlebag, a popular all-female harmony group from Hastings who have been performing a mixture of traditional and contemporary music around the Sussex folk scene since 2005.
Kids will be thrilled and parents will enjoy this nostalgic voyage down memory lane – Swallows and Amazons at the Electric Palace cinema with original cast member, Sophie Neville (Titty Walker) on Sunday 20 July – 4pm, writes Annie Waite
Hastings Palestine Solidarity Campaign (HPSC) is to hold an art sale on 3 August to raise funds to support the work of the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians with inhabitants of Gaza who are suffering from military action by Israeli forces, Rachel Lever tells HOT.
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