Happy Christmas!
Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 4:46 pm
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 very strange time (not unprecedented if you go back to the 1600's!). The Covid pandemic seems to have changed people's habits, they don't go out so much and don't participate (but I think it's important to not become insular). A lot of shops and businesses in Hastings have just disappeared, rather changed the atmosphere of the town centre. We used to be spoilt for choice with live music, but that is not ubiquitous as it used to be. The pubs are struggling - on a Friday night recently the huge Wetherspoon pub had about six customers!
And probably like everyone, I have lost sight of numerous people - just disappeared (one or two of my friends unfortunately died).
We have to hope that it will all get better. There ARE some live music events still - at the Jenny Lind and the Stag in the Old Town, both nice pubs. I miss all the open mic poetry/music nights - hopefully it will revive when the Covid business calms down.
I will post any good events if I come across them. One thing that people still seem to do is eat out! Hastings still has plenty of good restaurants and they seem to be very popular (why not, if you are fed up?).
Again Happy Christmas and keep going, try to make the best of 2022.
It has been a very strange time (not unprecedented if you go back to the 1600's!). The Covid pandemic seems to have changed people's habits, they don't go out so much and don't participate (but I think it's important to not become insular). A lot of shops and businesses in Hastings have just disappeared, rather changed the atmosphere of the town centre. We used to be spoilt for choice with live music, but that is not ubiquitous as it used to be. The pubs are struggling - on a Friday night recently the huge Wetherspoon pub had about six customers!
And probably like everyone, I have lost sight of numerous people - just disappeared (one or two of my friends unfortunately died).
We have to hope that it will all get better. There ARE some live music events still - at the Jenny Lind and the Stag in the Old Town, both nice pubs. I miss all the open mic poetry/music nights - hopefully it will revive when the Covid business calms down.
I will post any good events if I come across them. One thing that people still seem to do is eat out! Hastings still has plenty of good restaurants and they seem to be very popular (why not, if you are fed up?).
Again Happy Christmas and keep going, try to make the best of 2022.