So how did daisy cope with the Isle of Wight? Really well actually.

We where quite worried about the trip down, but daisy just saw it as an opportunity to have a longer sleep, and we only stopped once on the way down and once on the way back.

The week was a bit more difficult, after a particularly noughty couple of day’s it appears that Daisy is preparing for a growth spurt, and needs a lot more food, so now she is getting huge breakfasts (bigger than mine I think), and she seems much better through the rest of the day.

We came to the conclusion over the week, that we have now reached the point where we have to start giving daisy meat and more of a variety in her meals, up until this point, it would be a either one or two type of vegetables for lunch with one or two types of fruit for tea. Last night we made shepherds pie (less the salt) so now we have some proper food for daisy to chomp on, hopefully this will reduce the quantities a little, as her little stomach sometimes can’t keep all the food down.

This is the first in an short occasional series, documenting some of the things we saw on our recent holiday to the Isle of Wight:
Number 1: Charles and Diana Wedding ‘Photo’

It was more of a faded poster in a frame, I would of bought it had the shop been open, even at ?3. We couldn’t tell if it that price, because it was going cheap or if the price had gone up because of the impending remarriage of Charles.

while on the isle of wight, i got my full fix of the Isle of Wight County press, which is almost as good a read as the Rossendale Free Press. as always with local papers the letters page provides the most entertainment : Slapstick funnier than TV

So we are back from our holiday on the Isle of Wight, which you may or may not know, is our favorite place in the whole world.

We had a very nice time, it wasn’t sunny all the time, in fact most of the time it was either cloudy or foggy. This was the first holiday with Daisy, so things were quite different, lots of early nights, and watching of DVD’s. And when I could wrestle my laptop from John or Ruth, I did play quite a bit of Transport Tycoon (or OpenTTD which has many improvements).

The island is still falling in, on the day we attempted to walk around the coast from St Catherines point to Woody Bay. We found that most of the coast including the caravan park, appear to have fallen in, the road has slowing been slipping to, last year when we went the road was closed so the village was quieter than ever. This year the road is open, but judging by the movement of the cliffs it’s not going to be open for much longer.

Well we’ve been to woody bay, so my must do list can now be ticked off, it’s now early afternoon, and everybody who can has gone to off to have a nap.

Woodybay, was quite special. We arrived just on high tide, and after around thirty minutes of watching the waves we decided it was probibly safe to stay and have a bit of food, the sound of the sea was fantastic, and we spent a bit of time debating weather the best bit was the noise of crashing wave or the sound of the pebbles being dragged back down the beach as the water retreats (for the record i like the pebbles while caroline preferes the crash).

john was like me the first time i went to woody bay, climbing on the rocks and just looking at the sea for ages, we had to drag him off too, only with the promise that he could come back later, when the sea was out a bit and more rocks where on show.

Then we walked back past the house Ruth wants, last time it was on the market it sold for ?1 million, so it’s a bit out of our price range. The problem with the property on this bit of the island is, not so much it’s price point, but how you would earn the living to pay for them, i don’t think there are many software enginneering jobs going on the island (although with telecommuting maybe one day!), so we would pritty much have to come morgage free and then work in a cafe or something to make ends meet; not exactly the recipe for a ?1 millon house.

well we got here, it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. Daisy was fantastic, because i had a late panic about traviling on a easter weekend, we left ours at 7:30. We had a bit of a panic when arriving at carolines, we found them still in bed, but they are seasoned family travellers so they where up and packed in about half an hour.

we then proceeded to bomb down the motorway, and made more headway then we expected, and Daisy just slept, our new car is miles better than the rover for motoway driving, all was fine until we hit portsmouth, were we hit back of the traffic going to the fancy shopping centre the’ve built next to the ferry terminal.

the weather is fab, as ruth will always tell you, it’s always sunny on the isle of wight. i thought she was streaching it a bit given it’s only march, but it’s been nice all the way down and as soon as we got near the island, all the clouds dissapeared.

i think Caroline and John where impressed with the island, we drove the direct way so we haven’t done the pritty sea route yet (through shanklin and ventnor) but we still passed quite a number of nice houses. John read a Times article a few months ago that said the south of the island was a the place to buy houses, so now their here they are looking out for at all the for sale signs, i think we will visit an estate agents tommorow, window house shopping is quite fun.

Today has been like a military operation, not a very good one, but still a military operation, and I’ve never packed so much stuff. When it was just the two of us, we would pack two bags, and maybe a bag of technical gubbins (camera, camcorder, laptop) but this time we have an entire dining table full of stuff, with some to spare.

being a true nerd of course the laptop is the last thing to be packed, only this year I am going to remember to take the power supply!