Hastings Forum

Hastings has been granted £24.3m boost for regeneration. Hastings has been awarded £24.3m from the Government’s Towns Fund. £24.3m is a significant amount, a further £85m of funding has been approved. This amounts to a remarkable £100m+ investment in Hastings. https://www.hastings.gov.uk/news/latest...

Property restoration/alteration is heavily regulated.
Fine art and classic cars not so.
Thanks for agreeing seahermit.

There are rules in place for restoring buildings of historic importance.
The rules can sometimes be relaxed if a greater good is realised.
Not the case for classic cars or fine arts/crafts.
In that case there are no rules.

Does anyone know of a garden camera device that can transmit moving images to the computer monitor to observe creatures such as badgers and foxes?
I hear them but never manage to see them as they disappear by the time I get up.

UncleB, one can tackle renovation (restoration) of furniture and classic cars with relative ease.
A house overseas in the current virus climate would seem a different challenge altogether.

There are already dozens of organisations offering help to the homeless and needy in Hastings/St. Leonards. A Baptist church at the corner of nearby Warrior square serves as a soup kitchen. I hate to say this but no matter how much help is offered to the needy and drug-dependent there will always be...

UncleB,

I notice your balcony is no more!

Wetherspoons Hastings is in a tight space, it has no ambience, just somewhere to eat and drink cheap stuff. Wetherspoons Bexhill is spacious and has a more relaxed feel to it. The staff seem to be switched on. I don't feel you should go into a pub where you have to worry about the landlord/managemen...

'Poodling' about on a bicycle is not really about avoidance of complicated modern cars. A car is an expensive luxury unless you need one for work. I have all the benefits and convenience of technology from my desktop computer. Very useful to access a bank account and gas/electricity providers, order...

I think you need the right mind set-to cope with the vagaries of life in general, let alone technology.

I only have a desktop PC and very basic Nokia mobile (text and voice).

Life still goes on.