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Posted by - Judi Griffin
On our Island we have so much to shout about. The people who produce the food – the farmers – are no longer content to allow the supermarkets alone to sell their produce. The range and quality in farm shops and farmers’ markets is evidence of this. Farmers and growers have made the countryside of the Island as beautiful as it is, and are now getting out there to show off their...
Posted by - Gail @ iwep
Welcome everyone to the Isle of Wight Blog!
This was designed so our Isle of Wight Ambassadors can tell us what they've been upto, what they need to get off their chest, any news and just generally to remind us that there are exciting things to look forward to!
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Posted by - rob da bank
Im currently sat on another island of a slightly different longitide and latitiude as I’m in Iceland for the Airwaves music festival.. which is a proper eye opener. Airwaves itself is set in 9 venues across the small city or is it a town?! of Reykavjik. From a grand modern art museum to a disused cold store and old concert halls it’s a lot different from most UK festivals where y...
Posted by - DAVID FAWCETT
November 13 2007 saw the Young Chamber event "When Schools met Business..." at Cowes Yacht Haven,Isle of Wight. The event in partnership with IWEP Inspire and Aim Higher was a chance for students from across the Islands High School and College to have real conversations with business.
You...
Posted by - Cathy Tutton
When I talk to prospective clients I ask them why they want to come to the Isle of Wight and very often they say something along the lines 'Because it’s England as it used to be’.
This is not surprising to those of us who live here, enjoying some of the most unspoilt countryside and coastlines in Britain, where neighbours stop and chat, but what IS surprising is that the...
Posted by - Jo Grindley
It’s just two years since I moved from working out of my front room in Gurnard to start Into the blue, so I can’t say how excited I was to finalise the purchase of and move into our new shiny office on Cowes Parade which is part of the prestigious One the Parade development. I’m sure lots of people will have differing views on the new development, but we love it...and what ...
Posted by - Ben Willows, UKSA and GBR Yacht Racing Academy Manager
Last night I went with some of the GBR Yacht Racing Academy squad and sponsors Peter Harrison and Andrew Palmer, to the Royal Thames Yacht Club in London, where we were awarded ‘Best Royal Thames Boat for RORC Racing Series’. We also collected prizes for wins in Skandia Cowes Week and the RTYC Channel Race and I was so thrilled that we were presented with the additional awa...
Posted by - Ian Boyd, Island 2000
That should be Eocene Island really for this little beauty. It's a 'scute' - a piece of body armour from a 35 million year-old crocodile called Diplocynodon! It only measures 3x2 cms and looks like burnished brass. It's absolutely beautiful.
I found it amongst the seaweed and flint (actually my youngest son found it having much sharper eyes and being much closer to the ground) whils...
Posted by - Ian Boyd, Island 2000
Here you can see a rather pitiful little toad we rescued from a concrete bunker into which it had presumably fallen and become trapped. It was terribly thin but still active, so we released it onto some nice wet and wormy ground where it might feed up in peace. But the sad thing is that it isn't just this unfortunate individual toad that's having a hard time - it's all of them. Back in the summ...
Posted by - Ian Boyd, Island 2000
Guess what this is. Yes, obviously it's a stick, but what is it for? What if I were to tell you that it's a Magic Wand? Once you'd stopped laughing hysterically you might be surprised to learn that that's exactly what it is (probably). It comes from the extraordinary Alverstone Dig - a vast archaeological discovery we accidentally made whilst creating a big pond for wildlife down in the Yar ...