Love these shoes! Hastings Battleaxe is safely back in Hastings. In this post, she goes to a #HastingsInternationalPiano concert at the White Rock, the latest #HastingsContemporary exhibitions, and rabbits on about a few other things. www.hastingsbattleaxe.com/2025/09/hast...

Autumn is here! Why not curl up in front of the fire with a cuppa and a comforting cosy crime novel? Keep warm with ‘Death, Deceit and Cake’, but watch for the shivers down the spine! Download to your Kindle or buy the paperback from Amazon. Here’s the link: amzn.eu/d/h0JVAbG

Autumn is here! Why not curl up in front of the fire with a cuppa and a comforting cosy crime novel? Keep warm with ‘Death, Deceit and Cake’, but watch for the shivers down the spine! Download to your Kindle or buy the paperback from Amazon. Here’s the link: amzn.eu/d/h0JVAbG

I can’t see the problem with Digital ID… what are people whingeing on about? The privacy ship sailed for most of us years ago - have the complainers really not noticed? We are one of a tiny handful of countries without it. But I do wonder about the small number of people without the technology…

Oh phew, exhausted.... Hastings Battleaxe's second post about our Road Trip... we enjoyed it all but are glad to be home! Sorry the post is a bit long... Sunset from our Newcastle hotel room. What a view we had... www.hastingsbattleaxe.com/2025/09/hast...

Well, who could have guessed this? It is so boringly, and tragically predictable that the Left can’t hold itself together even long enough to get a new party even launched - never mind achieve any useful results.

How appropriate - and poignant, is this? On the day of the despot Trump’s visit to the UK we were lucky enough to view the actual Magna Carta in Durham Cathedral….

Wey Aye Pet! Death Deceit and Cake has hit Newcastle!

First Hastings Battleaxe post about our road trip to the North... here are the wonderful Kelpies in Falkirk... plus Pugin's St Giles Church in Cheadle, Southport, Morecambe sands and the Midland Hotel, and of course riding the Falkirk Wheel. www.hastingsbattleaxe.com/2025/09/hast...

Just this….

In case Mason tries to edit this, somebody has already taken a snapshot to the Internet Archive web.archive.org/web/20250905...

#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. www.hastingsbattleaxe.com/2025/09/hast...

Happy #Caturday. So many toys, so little time…

I am sad that Angela Rayner has left the government. The deputy role is difficult & Angela combined loyalty & challenge for the Prime Minister. She was a rare powerful female, working class voice in government: a tireless advocate for employment rights, trade unions & working people. 🧵1/2

‘Death, Deceit and Cake’ appeals to readers of all ages! I hope you like cosy crime, Mia! #Booksky #readersofBlueSky #books

Happy #Caturday. Digby isn’t happy about ‘Death, Deceit and Cake’. ‘It is far too successful and taking too much attention away from me! Why should I care about your cosy crime novel! Feed me!’ #booksky Ignore Digby, he can’t read. Get the novel: amzn.eu/d/he6qVP6

Hastings Battleaxe has had enough of summer... Here's a hot dog at last week's Bottle Alley Art Fair. www.hastingsbattleaxe.com/2025/08/batt...

Enjoyed a good summer read? If you have a moment, please leave a rating or a review on Amazon. Us new authors need them! You can leave a review even if you didn’t get your copy from Amazon. If you haven’t yet immersed yourself in Caroline and Olga’s world, here is the link: amzn.eu/d/2O4cRxo

Satire is dead. The person convicted of inciting racial hatred, who called for a hotel housing vulnerable people seeking asylum to be set alight with them in it, bitching about how the PM needs to "look at what people's human rights are". Fuck me, this is weapon's grade disconnect.

Happy #Caturday. Digby settles down with a good book. Download ‘Death, Deceit and Cake’ from Amazon if you enjoy cosy crime. Murder and mayhem at the Women’s Institute! And whatever happened to the Vicarage cat? amzn.eu/d/iUHfagb

I wish the debate was about disgusting government-enabled profiteering on the backs of “hardworking families’ taxes” rather than targeting those in need who of course have no choice whether they’re put in hotels, houses or even prisons. www.theguardian.com/world/2019/a...

Upset by the usual bombardment of bad news when you woke up this morning? Try watching these cranes… and relax…

Why can’t anyone learn from last mistakes?

How on earth would anyone get those suits onto those dogs? Worse than my husband trying to get into a wetsuit…

My novel has got all the way to Australia! Here it is with a University of Melbourne kangaroo. Please leave me a review on Amazon if you enjoyed it, and here’s the link again if you need a download or a paperback copy! amzn.eu/d/3ZHBuZh

Hastings Battleaxe writes about her day at the Crime Writers’ event at Hastings Museum. Attendance not great but 9 books sold, cake eaten, valuable learning done and the company of some very pleasant people! www.hastingsbattleaxe.com/2025/08/hast...

Still good news! #booksky #cosycrime #booklovers #readers

I don't 100% know what it is yet, but I would write this book.

Happy #Caturday. If you can’t relax like Digby, why not enjoy a good cosy crime novel! Download ‘Death, Deceit and Cake’ amzn.eu/d/cshyNmH Light-hearted murder and mayhem at the fictional Compton Perceval Women’s Institute! Getting 5* reviews. #booksky #cosycrime

Hastings Battleaxe again. Thanks to son-in-law Steve Peters for the photo! www.hastingsbattleaxe.com/2025/07/a-st...

Good news day today! The paperback edition of ‘Death, Deceit and Cake’ is available from Amazon! amzn.eu/d/0XURQiJ Lots of Kindle downloads already and 5* reviews! Written by a WI member with a WI theme, but non-WI people are enjoying it as well. Reviews welcome!

Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.

Good news day today! The paperback edition of ‘Death, Deceit and Cake’ is available from Amazon! amzn.eu/d/0XURQiJ Lots of Kindle downloads already and 5* reviews! Written by a WI member with a WI theme, but non-WI people are enjoying it as well. Reviews welcome!

This is terrible…

Hastings Battleaxe has been under the weather - too much stress? For any friends/followers who may have missed it, here is the Amazon link to Death, Deceit and Cake. amzn.eu/d/bqMY5O1 Enjoyed the current exhibition at the Towner Gallery. Worth seeing. www.hastingsbattleaxe.com/2025/07/hast...

160 downloads now - and 5* reviews of my first cosy crime novel ‘Death, Deceit and Cake’ #shamelessself-promotionFriday #WomensInstitute #WI #newbook #BookSky

Sitting here bleary after another poor night's sleep, disinclined to engage in a day of cognitive effort, this chart from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com really strikes home on.ft.com/4eFZG4l

Hastings Battleaxe says 'Death, Deceit and Cake' is doing well! Here is the Kindle link again! Downloads and reviews much appreciated. amzn.eu/d/7vLAy2y But here is a baby cutie from my morning at Mallydams. www.hastingsbattleaxe.com/2025/07/nove...

Am v pleased. My debut novel has 128 downloads in 5 days on Kindle, and is getting five star reviews. Am told this is good… and the cover design (Patrick Knowles) has received lots of praise.

Kindle ebook is out today. 70 sales so far. Good first day for a first-time author. Here is the link: amzn.eu/d/63Ocbfo

Kindle ebook is out today. 70 sales so far. Good first day for a first-time author. Here is the link: amzn.eu/d/63Ocbfo

Well, the big day is nearly here - the launch of my cosy crime mystery novel 'Death, Deceit and Cake.' Now available on Kindle for pre-order, for 1 July, and as an Amazon paperback from 15 July. I'll share the Kindle link presently. www.hastingsbattleaxe.com/2025/06/nove...

Why do they choose such odd places to sleep? #Caturday

For clarity: my moral allegiance in this moment of such enormous suffering is to the PEOPLE of Israel, Gaza, and Iran. The REGIMES of those places—Hamas militants, the Netanyahu administration and its IDF and “settler” agents; the Iranian regime—can go to hell, the lot of them.

Startlingly realistic falcon-headed god Horus, fashioned in beaten gold, with eyes of polished obsidian, and stylised headdress with rearing cobra. Horus was lord of the sun and kingship (Egypt, c 2.300 BC)

As the sun comes up on another beautiful summer morning, this by Moya Cannon...

Details of inlaid mosaics created a mind-boggling 4,600 years ago, depicting scenes of war and peace, made of shell, red limestone and (blue) lapis lazuli. Found in the Royal Tombs at Ur (in modern-day Iraq) artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-st...