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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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 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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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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An invitation to rummage through my dusty archive
Another year has popped up its shiny head, prompting folk to wield that metaphorical new broom and make promises to
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A fence against common sense
It is a sad fact that every now and again on our beautiful Island people die when they fall from
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Loverly Duverly – exploring the duvers of the Isle of Wight
The word ‘duver’ is an underappreciated Isle of Wight speciality. Like ‘chine’ or ‘shute’ it reflects the particular environment of
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