The Solent - Bembridge to Hurst Point and Southampton (Imray Charts - Home Waters)
Marine Mysteries (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Lee-on-the-Solent Library is my destination this afternoon to give a talk about my marine mystery crime novels and my life as a writer. It's a lovely little place with a High Street set just off the seafront. I'll be able to gaze across the Solent, which of course, is Inspector Andy Horton's patch, to the Isle of Wight beyond, getting a view of the western part of the Island and Cowes - a different...
Sometime - somehow (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
A little break last week amidst the anxiety of C being in hospital. We had chosen a hotel on the seafront at Sandown and had a balcony room. It was lovely to wake to the waves gently rushing forwards and to the sunrise over the sea. We pretty much covered most of the island in travel apart from Yarmouth area and Newport. My favourite village was Godshill - a kind of grockley Miss Marple place. And...
Peerage News (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
_.The engagement was announced 24 Oct 2009 between Charles Piers Egerton-Warburton (b 1961), scion of the Grey-Egerton Baronets (cr 1617), elder son of Peter Egerton-Warburton b 1933), of Bentworth, Hampshire, by his 2nd wife the former Sarah Jessica Norman (b 1940), scion of the Norman Baronets (cr 1915) (now Mrs Peter Rickett, of Bembridge, Isle of Wight), and Julia T. Speare-Cole, daughter of the...
Noumena, Cognita and Dreams (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
After our holiday in the Isle of Wight here are some of the places the wife and I visited: Mottisfont Abbey, Romsey : This is not in fact an abbey but a stately home built on the site of an abbey. The abbey dates from the 13th century, but after the dissolution the abbey estate was given by Henry VIII to one of his cronies, Lord Sandys. Sandys didn’t demolish the abbey, but built his house around...
Messing About In Sailboats (Free subscription) | 13/09/2009
I took advantage of a grim rainy day to watch Dylan Winter's sail around Britain. This one is one of his early ones in Bembridge Isle of Wight, featuring Illusions racing in Bembridge harbor. What's an Illusion? Watch the video.
Travels with my Mule (Free subscription) | 23/08/2009
There is an expression that is often used which says 'It all comes out in the wash'. There are several different interpretations of this. One of these describes the situation in life when things are 'Found out'. It is a saying that can apply to everything from personal relationships to managing your household expenses. No matter what you do or how you act 'life' has a way of searching for integrity,...
A Silhouette called Misty (Free subscription) | 20/08/2009
The annual "Round The Island" race, Isle of Wight that is, was held on 20 June this year, see link: http://www.roundtheisland.org.uk/web/code/php/main_c.php?map=rir09&ui=rir2&style=std&override=§ion=home&page=home I have had an ambition since I acquired Misty to sail her round the course non-stop solo which in straight lines in just over 50nm. I have previously sailed...
Usksider's Photo Blog (Free subscription) | 19/08/2009
Sadly my Mother's cousin has just passed on... I guess being Mum's first cousin would make Betty my cousin once removed... I've never really been very clear how these family links work and Betty was always referred to as 'aunt' (probably because of her age). Hearing of Betty's demise hit Mum quite hard, although she seems to have bounced back now and adopted the attitude there's nothing that can be...
A World of Anthropology, Artistry and Aviation (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009
(All photos courtesy of Marianne Cant) Well, thanks to my beautiful wife I'm reminded I've neglected this blog for far too long - it needs an update. In a previous, previous life and a long time ago, I played the trumpet. I like to think I was quite good but I was young, youthful and energetic and full of things around me. Really, I took my music very seriously until life happened. I played in the...
Holiday Parks UK (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
The Isle of Wight is a popular holiday destination and lying just off the south coast is an easy place to get to for a fun filled family holiday. The Holiday Parks in Bembridge provide endless fun and entertainment for everyone and you will never be far from the action at one of these destinations. The Isle of Wight is only a small island so no matter where you are staying you will be able to easily...
Artmanjosephgrech (Free subscription) | 24/06/2009
I have been to Sandown on the Isle of Wight three times in my life before last week. The first occasion was in the later 1940’s when the family took its first holiday at a caravan on a farm close to Bembridge Village and a walk from the Bembridge Rocky Ledge. We would take a bus to arrive midday for a picnic lunch when the weather was fine. We went again the next year or a year soon after because...
Artman Travels (Free subscription) | 23/06/2009
Writing about my trip to the Isle of Wight out of sequence is proving a challenge because there are so many other things I need to do during this early part of new week so I have decided to abandon catch up and go with the flow. In my childhood my birth mother had arranged two summer holidays of two weeks on the Isle of Wight. The first has been disappointing because of the location, a caravan on a...
Artmanjosephgrech (Free subscription) | 21/06/2009
In future, the 17th of June will be known as Someone Up There Likes me, Bembridge on the Isle of Wight Day. Some sixty years ago, or more, my birth mother, Mabel, booked and paid for a caravan holiday for two weeks at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight, for herself, her eldest sister Lena, her younger sister Margaret who was known as Harriet and who was my care mother, and me. I cannot remember if this...
Shedworking (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
A nice piece in The Guardian suggests five great beach huts: - Needleview , at Mudeford, Dorset - the new retro huts to be opened in autumn in Bournemouth - the hut near Westover Hall on the shingle at Milford-on-Sea - the Beach Hut and Boat House in Bembridge on the Isle of Wight - Elmdale Garden's hut at Walton-on-the-Naze., my personal favourite and pictured above and below. Here's what they say...
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