Here comes the Weekend!

There will be a Pop Up Market at the Stade Hall close by to the RNLI Lifeboat Station (always well worth a visit too!) on Saturday and Sunday 11.00 am to 4.00 pm (2-3 October- website), featuring the work of creative 'makers' and small businesses.

And plenty of music up at the Oval with UKG By the Sea on Saturday 2nd October from midday to 11.00 pm; to purchase tickets please go to this website.

Indeed, here comes the weekend (YouTube), enjoy it, but stay safe!

Free Outdoor Wifi in Hastings

There is free outdoor wifi supplied along parts of the seafront and town centre in Hastings with Hastings is online, when near an antenna, look for Hastings is online and when prompted use the password Hastings! (website for more information). 

And it works!! 👍

British Open Minigolf Results

It was a strange weekend weather-wise, thankfully, mostly dry, and 49 competitors entered into the 2021 British Open at Hastings Adventure Golf Pirate Course at the seafront. The results can be found at the BMGA website. 

Congratulations to all that took part!

Even More Championship Minigolf: 2021 British Open this Weekend!

The 2021 British Open is being held on the Pirate Course at Hastings Adventure Golf this Weekend, so, unless you are entered in the competition, and you want to play this weekend, you will have to give the Pirate Course a miss from Friday the 24th to Sunday the 26th September. For details, please go to the website, and wish me luck again that I don't come last... I'm not very good 😎 

The weather forecast isn't too bad, may be a bit damp, whatever, enjoy the weekend!

Hastings Seafood & Wine Festival 2021

Yes, indeedy, the Hastings Seafood & Wine Festival returns this weekend, 18-19 September 2021, at The Stade Open Space, open 11.00 to 18.00 both days, providing food and drink, and with music until 19.00 (visit1066country). Entry is by wristband on the day for £5 (under 18s free), or wristbands can be bought beforehand at the Hastings Visitor Information Centre for £4.

As ever, there is the usual Sunday morning (10.00, doors open 09.00) Jazz Breakfast with Liane Carroll & Friends in a separate marquee from the main festival, costing £20 (children £10) for 2 hours of music, continental breakfast and a wristband for the main festival; tickets available from Hastings Visitor Information Centre, but be sure to be quick if you want to go as tickets always do go quickly (visit1066country).

Enjoy your weekend folks, and stay safe! 

World Crazy Golf Results.

Well, I've been otherwise occupied, not doing very well, at the World Crazy Golf Championships 2021 (previous blog) which were held over the weekend. But, many competitors did very well indeed!

So my congratulations go to David Jermey, who won the Novice competition, Marc Chapman, who again won the Pro competition, and although the results page doesn't mention all the events, one I do know, and my congratulations also go to the 2 Davids and Marion who made up the Planet Pensioners winners in the Team competition! 

To see the full results of the Novice and Pro competitions go to this website.

World Crazy Golf Championships return to Hastings for 2021

Indeed, the COVID-19 Crisis has meant that the World Crazy Golf Championships have not been held for over 2 years now, but this weekend they return to Hastings Adventure Golf Crazy Golf Course, 10-12th September, full details at their website.

I believe entries have been completed now, and it looks as though there are 147 entrants, or thereabouts, and I have been railroaded into competing again, so expect to see me down at about 146, I'm not very good 😁

Anyway, the forecast looks okay, and take it from me, the better players are amazingly good at crazy golf, could be worth having a look, fingers crossed for me please! 

Play Misty For Me: Walking and Some More...

After quite a while not walking across Hastings Country Park, for many reasons, I ventured across to Fairlight and back early(ish) yesterday morning, and you've got it! It was a wee bit misty... I walked along the seafront to the East Hill, stopping for a chat with Paul (the street cleaner), always a great chat, then up the 200-odd steps of the East Hill; looking back in the photograph above, and mist...

I crossed the East Hill to Barley Lane, for a while walking along with, and chatting to, one of my new friends I made in the first lockdown, he mentioned he hadn't seen me for a while, and I left him to get into his car in Barley Lane, whilst I carried on eastwards until I was above Fairlight Glen, which I walked down into, and back up out of (above), and, yes, it was still misty...

I then walked across to, and down into, and back out of, Warren Glen, across the top and into the larger of the old Fairlight sand quarries, where I spotted this new information board, maybe someone had read my blog last year, certainly this information could have been shared long ago, better late than never. 😉 Interestingly, there are not just new information boards around, another at the new visitors' centre at Fairlight, Bale House (blog), but quite a few new direction signs too.

And some bullocks have turned up during my absence (above, just down from the information centre), this in addition to the usual 6 Belted Galloway, which can just be seen in the photograph below, way down across Warren Glen, honest!

Warren Glen, still misty!

And walking back, to my right, is this field (above) with wild flowers, including sunflowers, it will likely have a crop planted next year, and still misty! Oh yes, and I collected sufficient sloe berries for this year's vintage sloe gin...

And from Fairlight to St Leonards, indeed, even as far to the north as Westfield, the weekend just gone, and next weekend 11th and 12th September, there are the Coastal Currents Arts Festival Open Studios (website), keep your eyes open too! Examples...

I'm sure I wanted to say something else too, I'll likely remember by tomorrow, cheers!

Oh yes, the West Hill Lift is working again! 😀

Coastal Currents and Stade Saturdays are back!

Coastal Currents and Stade Saturdays are back in Hastings, things are gradually returning to some sort of normality, despite COVID-19 infection rates still remaining high locally, indeed, above the average national rate (BBC), and particularly among residents under 50. For details of events please go to the website, and enjoy your weekend!

And stay safe folks, be careful still!