The weather was a bit poor, but our week under canvas still had plenty of highlights. For a start there was the campsite itself. The showers and toilets were quite civilised and there was even a bath. We only have a shower at home so I enjoyed the novelty of lounging in a bath one […]
Entries Tagged as 'Isle of Wight'
Isle of Wight highlights
August 1st, 2007 · Comments Off on Isle of Wight highlights · Life
Tags: Camping·Cream Tea·Family·Holidays·Isle of Wight·Photos
Yet more bins
August 1st, 2007 · Comments Off on Yet more bins · Politics
The business about litter bins in Crawley, as disclosed in the Broadfield Forum, was in the local rag this week. I am still in two minds about it: I can see the logic of it but can also see how difficult it would be to prove one way or the other. Litter is one part […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Isle of Wight
Badgers
July 31st, 2007 · 3 Comments · Life
The Isle of Wight has some fine roadsigns warning of ‘ducks in road’ or directing you to the dubious-sounding “landslip recreation park”. I was also fascinated by roadside adverts for a garlic festival which was described as “the Island’s largest garlic festival” – how many garlic festivals does one small island have anyway? But despite […]
Tags: Badgers·Isle of Wight·Photos·WTF
Local papers
July 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
Newsagents often have a board outside with whatever shock-horror headline the local paper can think up to generate excitement/fear/interest in that week’s edition. Sometimes they can’t generate quite as much excitement as they want… I wish I had managed to get a photo of it, but as we passed through Binstead on the way home […]
Tags: Isle of Wight·Local Papers·WTF
Holidays
July 31st, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
The reason for the total lack of activity here (apart from Richard and Danivon bashing their heads together in the comments) is that I have been away on holiday. In a fit of misplaced optimism about the weather prospects we booked a week camping on the Isle of Wight and just got back yesterday. We […]
