The great wall of Ryde
Anybody who’s ever listened to ‘Desert Island Discs’ will surely have asked themselves what their own special recordings and luxury
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Isle of Wight
Seeing the Isle of Wight in a revolutionary way
While in St Thomas’ Square, Newport the other day I noticed en passant that Oggies fish restaurant was for sale.
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The ongoing effects of Mary Elizabeth Jolliffe
For reasons I probably don’t need to expand upon, I’ve recently spent a lot of time staring at my own
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Teaching an old Cat new tricks
Last weekend I did a spot of majiggering. No, it’s not a rustic two-step of the type performed by hanky-wafting
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The best things in Wight are free
I love a bargain. Now that car boot sale season has started up again I can be found hunched over
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Goose Island
Yesterday I was hurrying up Ryde Pier towards the ferry. My usual dash for the ticket office came to a
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Tune your telly to ‘Wight Gold’
These days we hoover up TV programmes via satellite boxes, on our smartphones, or at our convenience with an on-demand
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Monty Python’s Life of Wight
On my commute to Newport the other day I had plenty of time for contemplation, sitting in stationary traffic. With
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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
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When Sandown (briefly) became the city of the future
What have Ridley Scott’s neo-noir thriller Blade Runner and a hand-knitted tea cosy got in common? That’s right! Pedestrianisation! Watching
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