Matthew Chatfield | The Ventilator

Squirrels don’t owe you anything

A letter in the Isle of Wight County Press (CP 12/4/19) from Steve Shaw raised a query about the Island’s

Anybody who’s ever listened to ‘Desert Island Discs’ will surely have asked themselves what their own special recordings and luxury

Yesterday I was hurrying up Ryde Pier towards the ferry. My usual dash for the ticket office came to a

We were dining out a while ago with a couple of friends, one of whom is a vegetarian. After their

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 2 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