Hastings Forum

A couple of issues here. I am creating a "mini patio-garden" at the top of the steps outside my front door (big Victorian house). So I am looking for dwarf shrubs which will not only have attractive evergreen foliage throughout a dismal winter but also produce big, colourful flower heads l...

Good for you! More people should be proactive in sending suggestions or complaints to the council but I suppose there is scepticism as to how much attention it really gets before it hits the waste bin! I agree that the locating of rubbish bins seems somewhat arbitrary and several in strategic places...

The way it's going, won't be long before Queens Road looks like Bond Street. Well .. if Bond Street has a run-down shabby end, that is!

So the Administrator does read some of this idle gossip! £1 for a practical pair of specs can't be bettered and, yes, I have become aware that highstreet spectacles are largely a terrible rip-off - I gather that the cost-price of the frames is often a fraction of the price you pay over the counter. ...

As I said, I'm not much bothered about fashion, except for not looking too out-of-date and archaic I suppose. I buy what I like. If money was no object, I have always hankered after the Porsche 911. And possibly a genuine US army jeep too, nice and practical, you just hose it out when it gets dirty!...

P.S. Besides, as you get older, you seem to need to carry too many bits and bobs ... I'm already carting around a pair of specs, magnifying glass (invaluable), a device for my lug'ole, some pills to keep me alive (sort of), always a book, other probably unnecessary stuff. Maybe I need a handbag ..

For some reason, I have never got on with sunglasses. After all, they basically work by restricting the light and therefore your vision! I once tried a pair of tinted optical glasses which in theory should have been better, but no .. I prefer a hat tilted over my face in Bogart style! In any case, I...

I thought I would add that, regarding particular sreets/areas, you have posed a broad question and it is difficult for anyone to give you a survey of all the different areas in this part of the world (even if they had the time!). And you must bear in mind that people's views are subjective - I mysel...

P.P.S. Lest there should be a false impression, of course I am not a snob - you can ask anyone who knows me. Anyone who matters, that is ..

P.S. Of course in this (for me) splendid and enjoyable heatwave, I like to pull on just a tee-shirt and slacks. But not just ANY tee-shirt of course - I don't want to be mistaken for one of the masses ..!