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Paragliding on Tenerife
Julia Bradbury soars skywards on a paragliding and whale watching holiday on the volcanic island of Tenerife
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Bigger isn’t always better
Edward Stephens discovers the tiny island gem […]
In the distance is the Isle of Wight, taken from the cliffs at Highcliffe (map).
I was checking prices: it’s around £15 on the ferry from Lymington to Yarmouth, should I decide to go "overseas" for my holidays!
This photo is in response to something my friend Andy said to me in an email today and, I quote, "With the summer finally having arrived in the UK, I hope Balu will feel adequately warmed by the sun to venture out of his bed!"
Well, she’s perfectly entitled to hope, I suppose!
It’s […]
Before I find something else to rant / whine about and, for the benefit of my friends, particularly the deprived folk stuck on "sub-tropical paradise islands," I’ve been doing some more sightseeing around New Milton with a camera, so that you too can enjoy some of its many and varied touristic delights.
So far, I’ve […]
New Forest businesses property accommodation hotels restaurants
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The official website of New Forest Tourism
(tags: hants_dorset)
The New Forest - its scenery and history
(tags: hants_dorset)
Camping it up in the New Forest
(tags: hants_dorset)
Daily Echo | News, sport and features from your favourite Hampshire & Southampton newspaper website
Well, it’s not my favourite, because their tone often makes the Daily […]
Sustainable Community Action
The Woodland Trust | Tree For All
Plant A Tree For Me - Carbon Offset tree planting in Lancashire
The Woodland Trust
New Milton Dot com - New Milton’s Online Magazine, Portal and Directory
(tags: hants_dorset)
Well, let’s highlight the positive outcome, because the man in the next street, who’d had a heart attack, didn’t make it. He had lived alone and he had a budgie, which, I’m told, the paramedics had ensured got rescued.
Very small point perhaps, but I do find it rather touching and heartening.
It was quite […]
There was a story in the local rag last week, which had me scratching my head. It went along the lines of telling us that staff of the Nationwide Building Society in New Milton were being forced to quit their jobs because of the abuse they were suffering from customers.
This, we learn, is because […]
It’s an often asked question and one to which there probably isn’t a standard answer, as it will depend on the demographics of your site’s visitors.
The more geeky and savvy they are, the more likely they know how to avoid "nasty commercial stuff" online, but "average consumers" are (rightly) constantly being urged to […]
Online Alarm Clock
(tags: tools)
Online Alarm Clock
(tags: tools)
Islanders lose case for sole right to be Lesbian
An Athens court yesterday rejected an appeal by residents of the Aegean island of Lesvos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women.
(tags: Greece)
La batalla de los escaparates
The battle of the shop window displays. 13 shops in […]