Browsing: Ridd

By Tony Ridd.  A gap of two years did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm for the popular winter event that…

By Tony Ridd. Our countryside is home to a vast array of wild animals and who doesn’t enjoy seeing, even…

By Tony Ridd Some things are better joined up – like hedgerows, which connect up our countryside and provide essential…

By Tony Ridd. The Royal Isle of Wight Agricultural Society (RIWAS) and award’s sponsor CLA are inviting nominations for this…

By Tony Ridd Environmental change on the Isle of Wight We seem to hear about the Climate Crisis and the…

By Tony Ridd On a recent trip to Shropshire – part fun, and part work – we popped along to…

Ok, so the Isle of Wight’s wood fuel industry doesn’t quite have the same turnover as international oil companies, and…

With winter now well and truly upon us, and the hope of an Indian summer a distant memory, is everything outside…

Thank goodness for the typical British Summer, bringing us back down to earth after the hype of climate change and…

It now appears that more money is spent on more people involved in telling us how to run the countryside,…

Helping to keep you cool this summer are some delicious flavoured ice-creams made locally from the islands own dairy herds. …