Tag Archives: Isle of Wight

Jul 03 2024
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Art and architecture, Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

In Carisbrooke Castle

Tuesday 2nd July 2024, 12.40pm (day 4,695)

In Carisbrooke Castle, 2/7/24

He’s just discovered running. Which means he’s discovering the pleasure of chasing things. The gull will tolerate it for now: revenge will come later, when the kid’s chips get stolen.

This cameo played out in the grounds of Carisbrooke Castle, in the centre of the Isle of Wight — worth a visit, if you want a recommendation. It was the place that Clare and I saw out much of our silver wedding anniversary: we were married on 2nd July 1999, and have made it this far, at least.

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Jul 01 2024
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Daily Post, Landscape

Culver Cliff

Monday 1st July 2024, 2.50pm (day 4,694)

The southern coast of the Isle of Wight is one of the best places in the world to find fossils. This is not, I now realise, because more creatures somehow died here in the past. In fact it is because the entirety of this coast is sliding, fairly rapidly, into the English Channel, and so things long buried are regularly uncovered. Look at the erosion here — and the obvious geology, sandstone on the left, chalk thereafter. If you want my considered opinion I wouldn’t buy property too near this coast.

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Jul 01 2024
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Daily Post, Landscape

On Shanklin beach

Sunday 30th June 2024, 3.20pm (day 4,693)

Shanklin beach, 30/6/24

I have yet to start bringing my own deckchairs to beaches, and Clare and I remain, hopefully, more active than this — we reached Shanklin beach today, on the east coast of the Isle of Wight, after a 7.75 mile walk that you can read more about on my other blog. But in spirit, here we are. Give us ten years — maybe fifteen — and our bodies may be here too.

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