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If you plant it, they will come

We can all pinpoint a moment when our lives would never be the same again. Perhaps the birth of a

What have Ridley Scott’s neo-noir thriller Blade Runner and a hand-knitted tea cosy got in common? That’s right! Pedestrianisation! Watching

Another year has popped up its shiny head, prompting folk to wield that metaphorical new broom and make promises to

It is a sad fact that every now and again on our beautiful Island people die when they fall from

The future is startlingly opaque. Just a few months ago, nobody would have foreseen the staggering breadth of the COVID-19

The word ‘duver’ is an underappreciated Isle of Wight speciality. Like ‘chine’ or ‘shute’ it reflects the particular environment of

During lockdown we’ve got quite familiar with our garden. Recently, Cat saw a very large wasp flying about in a

22nd May, 2020 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments

I can just about remember “Plant a tree in ’73“. It was a government-sponsored programme to give schoolchildren and local

This article was first published the day after the December 2019 general election. Last month I chaired the Island’s environmental

I wrote a few years back about how we Island dwellers have an all too apt reputation as miserable, whining