Tag Archives: Hastings

COASTAL CURRENTS ARTS FESTIVAL

On the beach at Hastings there are a series of very tall black huts that are/were used to dry fishing nets. The base of them measures 8 feet by 8 feet. A group calling themselves Eight Foot Square are doing a whole series of events during the Coastal Currents Arts Festival that are only restricted [...]

IT’S AS GOOD AS MONEY IN THE BANKSY

Banksy has become the eponymousity [sorry, just practising if I ever move to the States] for graffiti art works.
He’s paid a visit to my local town – Hastings ……

….. and a couple of days later some real graffiti artists had added to it …..

The local council who are delighted to have another tourist attraction [...]

YOU AREN’T HERE ….

…… and neither are Lo, she is a terrible Goddess and I.
We’re in Portugal …….. for several weeks.
I’ll leave you a nice walk to enjoy while we’re away and when I return, I expect you to be bronzed and fit and experts on gorse of course.

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Match of the Month

Keep safe and remember, I might be [...]

1066, ALL THAT AND MORE.

I live in 1066 country. You know; the Battle of Hastings and people getting arrows in their eyes – and that’s just a typical Saturday night.
70’s teen has some interesting links on her blog  [it saves me from surfing around, which is excellent] and this creation, showing a little known section of the Bayeux Tapestry, [...]

SPOT THE BALL

This is a picture of the shopping precinct in Hastings.

It was built on a cricket ground and to commemorate this a statue was erected. What a lot of people fail to notice is that the ball also got sculpted – presumably by a novice sculptor as balls are a reasonably easy subject.
Anyway, if you can’t [...]