Isle of Wight - WightBlog.co.uk (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
It has been an exciting four years, for McKenna’s Computers on the IOW. As the business has grown, I have focused on high quality PC Support, Home and small to medium businesses, providing good quality parts and service. McKenna’s computers operates solely on a NO call out charge, although Freshwater based, mobile Island wide service You Call …We come to [...] McKenna’s Computers...
The Disillusioned Taxonomist (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Polacanthus foxii Owen, 1865 Ankylosauridae; Ornithischia; Sauropsida; Chordata Polacanthus is Britain's best-known ankylosaur. Despite this, the entire skeleton has not yet been found, and indeed, the skull is very poorly known. It was found in the Isle of Wight, and was contemperaneous with such dinosaurs as Eotyrannus and Neovenator , with the latter possibly large enough to have been a potential...
Holiday Parks UK (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
Want something different from your holiday or short break then you need to check out the Family Activity Breaks on the Isle of Wight . These are ideal for any family, friends or couples that enjoy spending time away and enjoying a whole host of activities at the same time. There are four different park locations for you too choose from on the Isle of Wight and these have a range of different activities...
Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 29/08/2009
Science Daily : Research co-authored by Bournemouth University (BU) Professor Adrian Newton and published in the journal Science this week shows that ecological restoration in areas of environmental degradation can help reverse global biodiversity losses, as well as promoting recovery of ecosystem services. However the research also showed that measures of biodiversity and ecosystem services are higher...
The Land of Lost Content (Free subscription) | 17/08/2009
A short extract from the composers fascinating and often extremely funny Pages from an Unwritten Diary. Stanford manages to deal with student ‘howlers’, a meeting with Alfred, Lord Tennyson and back-stage intrigue in under five-hundred words. In the Christmas vacation of 1879 I was saddled with the appalling burthen of examining some thousand papers on music for the local examinations of...
Nicholas Skinner's Blog (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
I recently went to the Isle of Wight on holiday, and while there went on two bike trails which I recorded using the "Trails" iPhone application (see below). I am planning on posting a review of Trails versus Every Trail shortly. Isle Of Wight - Yarmouth to Freshwater (Route 1) Widget powered by EveryTrail: GPS Community Isle [...]
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...
NewsBiscuit (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
[caption id="attachment_14222" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="First trip to London could easily have been day of bombings"][/caption] The Freshwater Argus today reported the remarkable case of Horace Dobbins, 72, who is counting his blessings after it dawned on him that he could have been aboard the stricken Air France plane that disappeared over ...
Walky Talky (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
You might have noticed that blogging is not happening with much conviction here. But more likely you haven't, since you've almost certainly not been reading the site anyway. So it evens out. Nevertheless, I feel I should at least make a stab at some kind of posting, if only to give myself something to look back on in future when my already-failing memory of this period has given up the ghost entirely....
John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
"Vows made in storms are forgot in calms."- Thomas Fuller (The above image is from this Flickr page. St. John's residents may find it curious it's of a place called Freshwater Bay ... not the one around the corner from us, but on the Isle of Wight.)
Nude Teen Adult Blog - article (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
This is Shanice sent in by lucky boyfriend Rob. She is 'somewhere on the downs overlooking Freshwater' for any locals on the prowl! Apparently there is quite a history of nudist teenagers on the Island and nudism in general. As early as 1933 Woodside in the Isle of Wight opens as a naturist holiday resort. And today the beaches around Blackgang Chine are licensed nudist beaches! Anybody else with...
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