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  1. Cracking day out on the South Island Randonnée although numbers were way down on last year's event. On the plus side I didn't miss the May Bank Holiday traffic queues where the route crosses the approaches to Ryde. Gentle SE wind meant the run along the Military Road was the fastest ever. #IsleOfWight #cycling #BikeToot

  2. The journey to the Bristol Disaster Relief Trials starts with a ferry...

    #CargoBike #IsleOfWight

  3. Time and Place: Solomon Butler and Charlotte

    I had previously posted most of this material separately, but I wanted to bring it together to show the full picture. Back when I first wanted to know the family history, I was told that we were descendants of Solomon Butler, a free Black man, and a "slave girl." The story preserved Solomon’s name, but not Charlotte’s. Why had her identity disappeared from the family account? While researching the brothers, Anthony and Moses Allmond, from whom I was told that all the Black Allmonds in […]

    genealo.me/2026/08/24/time-and

  4. ‘Armed with a hamper from Fortnum & Mason’: on holiday with Charles Dickens
    By Caroline Davies

    Exhibition at Charles Dickens Museum in London looks at writer’s holiday pursuits, from Kent to the Isle of Wight

    theguardian.com/books/2026/aug

    #CharlesDickens #Books #Exhibitions #Culture #Artanddesign #London #Kent #IsleofWight #Travel #TheGuardian #CarolineDavies

  5. The town of #Cowes on the north side of the #IsleOfWight functions as the main #port for passengers from the #Mainland. It is bisected by the mouth of the #RiverMedina, which forms a cleft in the #Island. To cross from one side to the other, instead of the #bridge, the town has a small #Ferry guided by chains, which works all day and late into the evening to transfer pedestrians and road users from one side to the other.

    #MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #Android #Autumn #IsleOfWight #England #UK

  6. #FediNaŚwiecie #Anglia #WielkaBrytania

    angielskie serwery #fediwersum:

    mastodonapp.uk
    mastodon.org.uk
    mastodon.me.uk
    mastodon.london (#Londyn)
    mcr.wtf (#Manchester)
    mastodon.iow.social (#IsleOfWight)
    arsenalfc.social (kibice Arsenalu Londyn)

    to chyba nie jest pełna lista...