The cunning folk know that the light at the end of the tunnel is deceiving. For I tell you this, you must walk through the dark first and even those of the cunning don’t know what spectres await to trip your mortal bones as you journey past.

#IsleofWight #haunting

Collection not a complete disaster.

⚠️ #IsleOfWight: gurt bike trailer incoming

Last night’s Blue Moon, with wightlink’s giant pinball machine.

For the curious: taken from my boat on a Canon Eos R, manual, 1/250, f7.1 iso 10k. 100-400L 170mm

#bluemoon #moon #supermoon #isleofwight #photography

A trip to the beach with friends cut short this evening as the #SuperBlueMoon resulted in a super high tide!

#IsleOfWight #SuperMoon #BlueMoon

Just spotted this on the Birdsite: water funnel weather phenomenon on the coast of the #IsleOfWight this morning!
https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1695405780181102783?t=MSdgXd7iws9bDzqVv8MvPQ&s=19

Sunday Stomp 🥾🥾

#IsleOfWight #Walking #GetOutside

SEALS!!! (From a distance) and a troubling sky that definitely pissed down on us. #isleofwight #seal #nature

Cruising past the #IsleOfWight now. A quick wave in the general direction of @sharongascoigne through this somewhat salty and grubby window, but it's from a pub on a ship so that makes it good.

#Travel #Cruise

Mackerel sky, mackerel sky, Never long wet, never long dry.

#IsleOfWight #Weather #Clouds

Next year I think I am going to organise a #folklore / #folkhorror day on the #IsleOfWight.

A ticket gets you:
-- Speakers
-- Food provided
-- Music
-- Tour of a Haunted building

No extras, no vendors

All this on a cliff top fort over-looking to sea

What do you think?

Pride on the Island looked good. Disappointed I could not make it but looks like those who could had a great time ☺️. #pride #isleofwight

Sad to see the ‘food critic’ is back making horrid comments over #isleofwight #pride again.

Same user ID as last time and other comments of hers. Adding this in before the DM brigade go on one again.

#isleofwight

Morning run 🏃🏻‍♂️

#IsleOfWight #6km #Exercise #Running

‘This way of #farming is really sexy’: the rise of #regenerative #agriculture

On the Isle of Wight Hollie Fallick and Francesca Cooper are part of a movement to bring tired and depleted soil back to life – and boost food security

they don’t practise typical farming: instead they are part of a growing global movement practising regenerative #agriculture – or #regen ag for short.

“Really simply, regenerative agriculture is nature-friendly farming,” says Fallick, who says she stopped being vegan when her health suffered. “It’s thinking about the health of soil, animals, humans and how they all link together.”

On Nunwell home farm, which sits alongside land the pair manage for the Wildlife Trust and produces meat and eggs for their direct-to-consumer business, chickens peck away alongside belted Galloway cows, nomadic pigs graze on grass as well as kale and bean “cover crops” sown to boost nutrients in the soil.

The idea is that by following the basic principles of regen ag – not disturbing the soil, keeping it covered, maintaining living roots, growing a diverse range of crops and the use of grazing animals – they can regenerate tired and depleted soil and produce nutritious food. The work, they argue, is urgent. Up to 40% of the world’s land is now degraded by industrial and harmful farming methods, according to the UN, while a recent study suggested improving soil could keep the world within the 1.5C heating target."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/14/this-way-of-farming-is-really-sexy-the-rise-of-regenerative-agriculture

#AgriculturalIndustry #Sustainability #FoodSupply #Food #IsleofWight #UK #Soil #Soils

Visited Oliver at the Dinosaur Farm 🦕 yesterday to help identify some of our #fossil finds. Amongst our collection we have:
- echinoids
- echinoderms
- sea sponges
- crocodile teeth and jaw
- early mammal tooth
- stingray teeth
- fish vertebrae
- crocodile skin
- turtle shell
- fish and dinosaur poo
- and more…

#IsleOfWight #FossilHunting

Did you know: Godshill on the #IsleOfWight is pronounced God-shill and is named for a grifter-vicar?
#Wighton

Pretending we’re still on holiday by sneaking in a cheeky couple hours on the beach this evening.

#IsleOfWight #VitaminSea ##IslandLife #Sunset

I would love to see the #IsleOfWight introduce this approach
https://youtu.be/R2oD1ZHNMFE

Saw my second ever red squirrel this morning. Sadly my dumb (but lovely) dog spooked it before I could get a proper look.

Still it was a delightful surprise.

#IsleOfWight