A busy weekend!

Plenty to do, fish to eat and/or buy, and music to listen to! Starting with the Herring Fair down at the Stade Open Space, 31st October to 1st November, 11-16.00 both days (for more details see the website). The photograph below is of the marquee, early morning... 

Then, mucho music around town as usual on a Saturday evening, and not least a contribution by the 2015 Voodoo Fest: the afternoon Zombie Walk, evening Funeral Procession, and culminating with music at St Mary in the Castle (details at the website).   

Also, as I mentioned yesterday, the Fourth Black Huts Festival continues at The Beacon, with Carlyle Reedy and Pete Brown this afternoon, and Jonathan Coe, Elle Osborne and Brian Catling this evening (details at website).   

Have a nice day/weekend! 

Fourth Black Huts Festival

Further to my blog of 6th October, a reminder that the Black Huts Festival is now in full swing at The Beacon (St Mary's Terrace) this evening and tomorrow, and at the Electric Palace (High Street) on Sunday. This evening, featuring the writers James Kelman and John Healey from 7.30pm, though doors opening for spicy food at 6pm (website).   

Stacey Marie - RX134

This week, the Stacey Marie in Rock-a-Nore Road received her annual freshen up; whilst painting her, children were heard, more than once, asking parents "Why is that man painting the boat?" The answer should have been, to help preserve her from the elements and gulls, but that reply was not heard! The retired fishing boat has its own facebook page, should you wish to see more photographs, including from when she was a working boat, and to read a short description of her history, please go to that page.   

Looking at her with the East Hill in the background.

Looking back with the Dolphin Inn in the background...

World Crazy Golf Championship 2015

And there was me thinking that not a lot was happening in Hastings this weekend, but of course it was, at the Crazy Golf Course! (website) 

And here's the results, congratulations to the Champion, Michael Smith of Great Britain! 

Things to do?

Well, the Stade Saturdays events are over for this year, the Hastings Herring Fair isn't until next weekend, together with all the Halloween shenanigans, the weather forecast suggests this will be a dry day until this evening, though tomorrow will be bright and dry, if a wee bit chillier... So, what to do? The usual evening music venues continue, of course, Hastings certainly has plenty of music on every week, notably in pubs, and there are the museums to go to, eg up Bohemia Road or the Fishermen's Museum at Rock-a-Nore, if you haven't visited for a while, and, should you be happy to travel a few miles, there is the Battle Festival (website).   

Tuesday was a lovely day, and the gulls had fled the nest on board the Stacey Marie at Rock-a-Nore (facebook page), thus we managed to get on board and clean up and re-paint her deck, thankfully; we'll be doing a bit more restoration and painting over the coming weeks, she does need a wee bit of work, indeed, poor lass!   

Looking better already, though!