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 […]
Entries from July 31st, 2007
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 […]
