Hastings Forum

Thanks Felicity, that's encouraging! Yes, there's a lot of fascinating history surrounding Hastings and it's one of the things which has kept me here for a good few years. Even in my own patch in St Leonard's, the buildings contain numerous clues to their history and changes which have taken place -...

Hello everyone. Happy Christmas and hopefully a much better year ahead for all of us. I am just trying to keep the forum alive - it has been very enjoyable and informative in the past, so I hope some people will return and contribute. It's important that we don't give up communicating. It has been a...

Well, thanks very much for going to such trouble with suggestions! I eventually got the console back from 1066 Computers - I will never use them again, their attitude was unfriendly, fed up and grudging and they took a month to sort out the problems. All I could get out of them was that they had &qu...

I have one other little query, which somebody please might be able to help with?! I still have Office 2010 on a CD - I can't remember whether I bought it for this PC. It might be a bit older, having first been installed onto a laptop. What are my chances of using it again on a laptop? As far as I ca...

Probably .. I had enormous problems in May after a huge Windows update on my desktop PC. Everything crashed and, after a series of further updates (which presumably were busy putting things right again), the PC finally sorted itself out. After a month. During which the PC was of course unusable. Sam...

There are plenty of dummies out there .. I have a friend who "won a prize draw" or something (which he never entered). He sent off a fiver, his name and address were passed around, within a few months you could literally fill a dustbin bag with all the junk letters, offers, prizes and spec...

This one arrived in my Inbox today. Too beautiful not to share .. such an eloquent and touching appeal. Do you think I should respond? It's not often that one is honoured by the chance to help a rich Shiek in Oman sort out his financial woes. An awful lot of noughts in that sum - even more than in m...

It is hard for a non-business insider to know what is really going on, because M&S are hardly going to engage with the public and say frankly "We are doing badly" but the evidence is there if you look : not only, as you say, the outdated and dowdy clothing (and the poor quality of it) ...

I have aired this topic before but this is just a short one about Marks and Spencer, whose sad decline must be making the original Jewish founders move restlessly in their graves. A year or two back, I tried on a pair of burgundy corduroy trousers in M&S in Hastings. I am slim, so most "reg...

Amidst this strange, variable weather, yesterday afternoon decided to be hot and sunny and I ended up hanging out for a while by the Goat Ledge cafe. It really is nice, all the huts are gaily painted, the staff are welcoming (and service good) - I scoffed an ice cream and dozed off on the beach! It ...