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Welcome to the May issue of Island Magazines.
A J Careless
Another month has rolled by, and we have had some lovely sunny days, especially over the Easter weekend. There were many visitors to the Island who had the pleasure of experiencing what we have right on our doorstep. Do you sometimes forget how lucky we are to live here? I know I do... With another Bank Holiday due at the beginning of May let’s hope the sun is here to stay and then it seems the whole Island is getting ready for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June.
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A new feature starting in this issue, and which will be running for the foreseeable future is the ‘Humble Crumble Kitchen’ and you will find this on page 12. Our ‘Dates for your Diary’ section on pages 8 and 9 offer a wide range of events happening across the Island for everyone to enjoy. Please always feel free to contact me if you have any news to share or would like any further information on anything featured in this issue. I hope you all have a great month and I look forward to catching up with you again soon.
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Tramp in the Woods Living on an island we are spoiled for choice with local wildlife, and nothing beats the sighting of a red squirrel and it’s thanks to local photographer Tramp Woods that I can have the pleasure of sharing this one on the front cover. Dave Krowson AKA The Tramp (Tramp Woods) moved to the island after a sudden change in his life and after spending many hours sitting in the woods waiting for the opportunity to capture these beauties his friend nicknamed him Tramp in the Woods. The name stuck and has now been adapted into an online trademark through Instagram and Facebook. Tramps favourite subject is the red squirrel and over the past 2 years he has been photographing all species of wildlife and is in the process of finishing his book, ‘Life Thru the Lens’, which will showcase an array of pictures taken by himself and he hopes that the book will be enjoyed by all ages and may encourage others to get involved with our wildlife in whatever form they feel.
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‘Walkabout’ with Michael Paler Contact Details:- 07483251960 or email michaelpaler@btinternet.com the audience enjoyed Peter & the Wolf and Paddington Bear’s First Classical Concert. Both concerts are a wonderful way to There has been a lot happening around the introduce Island building up to classical a busy year ahead. music to I have been to the younger Phoenix Choir’s children first performance whilst also in two and half entertaining years. This was held the adults. at the East Cowes With a Town Hall and live wind was well supported quintet for a good night’s consisting entertainment. The of the Medina Community flute, oboe, bassoon and French horn, and Choir had their first concert at St Mary’s, narrator. Cowes. I attended the Island Collection at the Ventnor Exchange which brought I visited Sandown’s Waste Water Treatment together groups from around the Island. Plant which will be giving tours to the This was a network event to see which public in the near future, you will be groups could help each other and it was surprised at what you will see and find out. good to see the Classic Boat Museum from Columbine Building at Venture Quays, East Wight Aviation Museum at Sandown Cowes. Airport is now open and Lora PeaceyWilcox, Leader of the Isle of Wight Everyone had an enjoyable evening Council performed the ribbon cutting at Comicoffee, Cowes Alternative Art ceremony at the Grand opening. Look out Exhibition, well done to all for the exhibits and a full house, more events on aviation to follow. history of East Cowes and the As a member of the Cowes island. WAM is Amateur Operatic and also looking for Dramatic Society I have had more volunteers a good time taking part in to cover many events. Trinity Theatre held positions. the Wednesday Wight Proms, good to see so many people enjoying the Family concert, G’Day all and I hope you all had an enjoyable Easter break.
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‘Walkabout’ with Michael Paler Helen Goodman who has her studio at the Water Tower at Osborne held a successful Exhibition at Quarr Abbey during the Easter weekend. Good to see it was well supported. The 2022 Isle of Wight Spring Art & Garden Fair was back at Easter at Northwood House and Park in Cowes following the tremendous success of the inaugural 2019 event. Look out to see if Southampton is the winner of the City of Culture 2025 as the Isle of Wight is included in the bid, which should be known at the end of May. Bradford, County Durham, Southampton and Wrexham County Borough are unveiled as the four areas shortlisted to be UK City of Culture 2025. The four locations were approved by Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries based on independent advice made to the government by a panel of experts led by Sir Phil Redmond.
The vast benefits of winning the prestigious title include attracting millions of pounds in additional investment to help boost regeneration, a year in the cultural spotlight with hundreds of events encouraging long-lasting participation in the arts, and growth for local tourism. Take care and be safe. Hope to see you on my travels.
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dates for your diary Every Wednesday – Mountbatten Community Choir is meeting again at the hospice from 6pm – 7.45pm for a weekly uplifting sing. Everyone is welcome to come and join in. No need to be able to read music and no previous experience necessary. For more information contact Fraser Simpson (choir director) on 07834 322316 or email fraser.simpson@ mountbatten.org.uk Every Friday – Calbourne Recreation Ground Car Boot Sale (weather dependant) Gates open 3pm – sellers set up - 4pm (£5 per pitch) and Buyer’s access – 4.30pm.
Wednesday 4th May – Saturday 7th May – Jigsaw Festival and Sale at St Mary’s Church, Cowes from 10am – 4pm daily. There are many new jigsaws, and some already completed, displayed in the church. There will be light refreshments available in the parish room with books, clothing, etc. for sale. All welcome, free entry. Wednesday 11th May - Wight Proms Wednesdays - Lunchtime Concerts at Northwood House, Cowes at 12.30pm. Daniel Boys (Voice) - Award-winning West End Leading Man, accompanied by Mike Christie. Tickets: www.wightproms.co.uk/ wednesdays or on the door.
Every Sunday – Fighting Cocks Car Boot Sale. 9am – 11am (sellers from 8.30am – Cars £7 and Vans £10) For further enquiries please contact Laura - laura@ thefightingcocksiow.co.uk or 01983 865254. Weather permitting event.
Friday 13th May - Pete Walkden Disco playing music from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s at East Cowes Vics FC Clubhouse, Beatrice Avenue, East Cowes. From 8pm - 11.30pm. All welcome and free entry.
Sunday 1st May – Isle of Wight Donkey Sanctuary Open Day from 10am -4.30pm. There will be lots going on during the day with a number of different displays from sheep dogs, gun dogs, birds of prey, pony and trap, our own donkeys, and others. There will be machinery and historic car displays, as well as a variety of different stalls. Free entry but donations kindly accepted.
Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th May – Rydabus Vintage Buses Weekend 2022. A weekend of free vintage bus travel taking you around the attractions and must-see things around Ryde and the east Wight. Buy a programme from www.rydabus. co.uk. Includes timetables, route map and lots of offers and discounts at participating attractions, cafes and shops! Fun for the whole family.
Monday 2nd May – St Edmunds Walk Garden Sale from 10am – 2pm. Residents of St Edmunds Walk, Wootton Bridge have come together to set up on their front gardens and the local greens to sell a range of pre-loved items. There will be an open garden and many other interesting finds.
Saturday 14th May – Riverfest, Newport Quay. Riverfest is a fun, free, community event. This family friendly event takes place in the heart of the Isle of Wight in Newport. It has all the feel of a traditional village fete, with many free activities for children and local charities attend promoting continued over the page
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dates for your diary the work they do in the community, helping people and the local environment. This is a free event and is organised by The Footprint Trust. Saturday 14th May – Wolverton Folk & Blues Fair at Wolverton Manor, Shorwell, Newport, PO30 3JS. From 11.30am – 8pm. A family friendly festival with fantastic bands/artists each year along with locally produced food, children’s activities, tea tent and not forgetting the Real Ale tent! As well as the Main Stage, the popular ‘Beer Tent Acoustic Stage’ will make a welcome return providing a full and varied programme, featuring some of the best Folk & Blues musicians the Isle of Wight has to offer. Advance tickets available from: Waterstones Bookshop, Newport; The Village Shop, Brighstone; Briddlesford Lodge Farm Shop; Brighstone School; Orchard Brothers, Freshwater Bay. Ticket prices £10 Advance / £12 on Gate. 12’s & under are free. Saturday 14th May – Vectis Postcard Annual Postcard, Stamp & Ephemera Fair at Masonic Hall, John Street, Ryde from 10am – 3pm. Entry is free and there will be 20+ tables with a mixture of Mainland and Island dealers. Sunday 15th May – Preloved Indoor Market for all things pregnancy, baby and toddler related at Binstead Community Centre from 1pm – 2.30pm. Free entry for buyers. Sunday 15th May – Dog Show at the Isle of Wight Donkey Sanctuary from 10am – 4.30pm. Free entry, donations kindly accepted. All event information was correct at time of print but could be subject to change at any time.
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A couple of warnings from Trading Standards. • The scammers are still trying to use Covid to their advantage and try to trick us into parting with money – A couple of texts have been reported, one stating that your Covid Pass is available and tells you to click a link to apply. You can obtain your Covid Pass through the NHS App or by calling 119. The other states that you have been in contact with someone who has Covid and you need to buy a test followed by a link, allegedly to the NHS. There is no longer a test and trace process – nobody would know if you had covid or had been in contact with somebody who did. These are SCAMS they can be forwarded to 7726 where the information will be gathered as intelligence into scams. • Another reminder about calls from domestic insurance providers. These are prolific and persistent – do not engage with them and don’t agree to take any insurance. These insurances generally aren’t worth the paper they’re written on and once you have signed up they will keep ringing. These cover items such as white goods, tv’s, Sky and drainage and all operate in the same way. We recently heard of a victim who had over 40 direct debits on his account to these insurances! • We have been contacted by a resident who had a couple of men at his door this week asking to buy his motor home – which they said they believed was for sale. These weren’t islanders and were travelling around in a white pick up. Their approach would be to try to negotiate a silly price or pay a deposit and drive the motor home away and you would never see it or the money again. DO NOT engage with anyone on the doorstep.
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News Report from Town & County Cllr Karl Love - East Cowes. Email: karl.love@iow.gov.uk Facebook: Cllr Karl Love I hope you all had a great Easter. Work continues to progress with the esplanade community project and has only been achieved because of the community pressure and hard work of Cllr Sharon Lake who was involved in this project long before she was elected to the town council.
smaller parcels of land for other development projects.
I continue to object to Red Funnel using Castle Street access for off-loading their vehicles and I am talking about it with the cabinet member responsible. They even asked our town council to support them in wanting Simon walker was elected, by default, in the to take charge of the highway traffic light crossing in Well Road by Waitrose! They buy election that no other candidate came wanted to give their customers’ vehicles forward to stand for the office of Town priority over our town people’s use of the councillor after Michael Paler stood down. The jubilee celebrations are being progressed crossing in peak periods. I’m not having this by a small team of individuals and councillors at all. and I’m looking forward to the events being I travelled to Moldova last week to see the planned on the Jubilee recreation green, work of Mad-Aid in action as they deliver including live bands and a picnic. the donations made to the people of Ukraine from the people of our Island. Every item Sadly, it looks like much of the planted you donated will be put into use or action. hedging along the esplanade will have to be replanted as the young saplings have not survived the floods in February. The paddling Moldova is a very poor nation, and nothing pool is being prepared for its annual opening ever gets discarded as one charity stated. “If and has had to have significant funding spent it’s not fit for human use, we repair it or use it on it this year. The total cost is in the region for livestock and pet bedding”. I’ve also never seen so many packs of wild dogs roaming of 20k. the streets freely. You can see the impacts of Thank you to everyone who commented on poverty everywhere if you look beyond the the Norris Castle and Spring Hill application. theatrical presentations of city windows and the smokescreens of politics. It’s an incredibly My comments and that of other town poor nation where drawing water from a well councillors have not made us popular with and outside toilets is commonplace and the the developers and we now wait to see the norm for many in rural communities. Horses outcome of the planning committee. In and carts are commonplace and life is very my opinion the developers’ plans are totally overbearing for an historic site of this nature hard. There is progress but it’s painfully slow and the significant proportion of the younger and their reported attitudes towards local population has left for Europe or to work in people are not encouraging. You will have all parts of the globe. noted that the developers have excluded the inclusion of the Spring Hill house from the Moldova is trying hard to support refugees, plan, and this could have made an offset but it has little resources of its own to be able contribution to the overall plan by reducing the need for other construction elements. We to help in the way that one would like to see. I’m not critical of the Moldova people and don’t know what they have in mind for the their efforts. I am critical of policy and red Spring Hill Estate, but it seems clear to me tape, the western world is not supporting the that they are breaking up the estate into
News Report from Cllr Karl Love continued traffickers and those who may seek to exploit them. I’d like to bet if you asked the organisers of the Isle of Wight festival I’ve visited tented villages and I cannot believe to plan a village to cater for 10,000 people, this is the best that we the western world can it would be easy. So why is it so hard for the UN and all the other rich nations to do. Tents erected on bare grass, beds which have long since seen their best and mattresses provide and deliver better and appropriate filthy and fit for nothing more than a bonfire. accommodation facilities? Where are the modern portable toilets and showers and kitchens? The facilities I’ve seen I know our Island people will welcome Ukrainians to our island, but their integration provided are not there to enable living there merely a survival mode action. I expect much will not be without suffering. more than that in this day and age. I have seen Victoria Dunford doing, Where is the international workforce? If they seemingly impossible things, in order to get aid across the border, which is currently are there, they appear invisible to me with closed to export. Her determination and very little personnel on the ground at the localities I visited. At every centre I went to it contacts within the government have opened was local people trying to do their best using doors that cannot be opened. Behind Mad-Aid out of sight is an international outdated equipment, trying to manage the terror and suffering of the Ukrainian people. organisation with a massive reputation and a I guess there are visitors like me wearing fancy huge heart. It’s a small team of people who chains and talking lots but apart from seeing get things done. The food which the people of the Isle of Wight have sent via Mad-Aid I saw a few people with clipboards, I ask, who is being delivered. At one of the centres Maddoing the trauma work with these people? Aid provides the food to feed that community How can we possibly justify providing tented for three days a week. Victoria is coordinating from the United Kingdom and through the villages with virtually no facilities? Why when we have portable toilet blocks, showers volunteers and the team based at the Phoenix and kitchens, have they not been pressed into Centre in Moldova. In Moldova I have seen action? Why does the western world not have items and chairs from the Mountbatten Centre and computers which would’ve been an already prefabricated emergency Village, thrown away. Beds from St Mary’s hospital pre-packed, constructed of high-quality and cabinets. All kinds of medical aids which portable buildings, pop-up buildings and would be thrown in the skip and have been trailer tents? recycled to a high standard and they are making a really big difference to the lives of Many of the refugees don’t want to move away from the Ukraine border while they wait people. This is the powerful work of Mad-Aid its incredible to see in the hope to return. Our UK government gives £10,500 per person to support Please make a donation to Mad-Aid if there’s Ukrainians living in the UK. If that money something tucked away in a cupboard which could be used within Moldova to purchase is new or as good as new, which can be or rent many of the empty houses which exist in this country, it would allow people to given to Mad-Aid to take out and be used to stay close to the border but be in safer secure support the people of Moldova and in turn Ukrainian displaced people. accommodation away from the risk of people of Moldova as they would like to respond and help the people of Ukraine.
Interesting Facts and Historical Events for May The name May is the modern-day English adaption of the Latin word Maius, which has origins going back to the time of the ancient Greeks. They named the month of May (or Maius) after the Greek goddess of growth. May used to have a very different name in Old English. Back then, the month was referred to as the “month of three milkings.” Unsurprisingly, this meant that during this month, you could milk your cows up to three times per day! May was once considered an incredibly ill-omened time to get married. There’s an adage for it actually, which goes: “Marry in May and you’ll rue the day.” It’s not clear where exactly the saying comes from, but there must have been a pretty good reason not to get married in one of the most beautiful months of the year! May isn’t just a bad time to get married, though. There’s one superstition that says that buying a new broom in May is unlucky. Oh, and apparently, you shouldn’t wash any blankets either! May is a pretty good month for US presidents. Every other month of the year, at least one US president has died, but never in May! May is the month that the Eurovision song contest is held every year and has been held every year since 1956 (with the exception of 2020). May is a special time for Star Wars fans worldwide. May the 4th is celebrated as Star Wars day, due to the way the date sounds similar to “May the Force be with you”. The Empire State Building formally opened its doors on May 1, 1931. At the point of its construction, it held the record for being the tallest building in the world. Many other sky-high constructions have since dwarfed it. Back in the day, it wasn’t a good May if you didn’t celebrate it with a maypole. In the UK, they were present since at least 1350 AD. Celebrants would erect a long pole and attach flowers, garlands, and strips of fabric to it, around which certain dances would take place. The birthstone for May is the emerald symbolising fertility and rebirth and May has two birth flowers – the Lily-of-the-Valley and the Hawthorn. The Hawthorn flower is a symbol of hope, while the Lily-of-the-Valley represents the return of happiness and sweetness. May also has two Zodiac signs, Taurus and Gemini. People born under the sign of Taurus are said to be ambitious and smart, yet trustworthy. Those born under the sign of Gemini are said to be passionate, adaptable, and smart. Many famous people were born in May, such as Queen Victoria, and Catherine the Great, Mark Zuckerberg, Karl Marx, Clint Eastwood, Wes Anderson and John F. Kennedy, 18
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Soaring through the sky from March to October, swifts, swallows and martins follow their food and move to areas where insect populations are booming. These beautiful birds are all visitors to the UK, so let’s admire them while they are here! • Swifts are almost always on the go, only touching the ground to nest. • Swallows can be seen gathering on telegraph wires, or swooping low to gobble insects and collect mud. • House Martins often nest in groups, dashing between built-up areas as well as the countryside. • Sand Martins prefer to nest in colonies on rivers, lakes and flooded gravel pits.
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