Wake up and smell the coffee
Back in the day, I studied industrial design. I learned how to do technical drawing, made prototypes of products in a well-equipped workshop and was taught about the history of
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Isle of Wight
Is there life on Mars? Who cares?
One sunny Sunday in 1969 I was participating in a leapfrog competition when my mother popped out of the house and made her way across to us bouncing children. I
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Living in electric dreams
When I was a nipper, there was much talk of pollution and acid rain, damage caused by aerosol propellants and litter. Inspired, I started a Womble Club to encourage my
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Living in Groundhog Day (and tomorrow we’ll do it all again)
You all know that joke by now. Q. How many folks from the Isle of Wight does it take to change a light bulb? A. CHANGE?? We don’t like change!
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A swelling organ and a hamper of parsnips
On the evening of Wednesday 10 April 1991 I went with my landlady to All Saints Church Hall, Ryde to hear the Isle of Wight Electronic Organ Society’s guest organist
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Six degrees of Jonathan Bacon
Shortly before I moved to the Isle of Wight in 1990, I went to a house party in Portsmouth. It was heaving with the usual crowd of art students, sundry
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Madcap travel on the Isle of Wight
My bicycle is slower than your car. It’s not necessarily deliberate, it’s because it is powered by a pair of human thighs and a single middle-aged heart – so please
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Touched by your presence, here
Have you ever seen a ghost? The Isle of Wight is reputed to be one of Britain’s most haunted places, and certainly has some exceptionally historic and mysterious nooks where
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The joy of the staycation
There’s a familiar call-and-response that goes something like this: tell anyone that you live on the Isle of Wight and you’ll undoubtedly hear the stock reply: “I went there on
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Not From Round Here
Right. Let’s get this out of the way: I’m not from round here. No matter how long I have lived on the Isle of Wight, nor how much I adore
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