seven wonders.

Uncle Frank · Post by **Uncle Frank** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:31 pm

Hi Boys, ok , ok, i could have gone on and on like you but i thought it was just 7!!!, , but i bet you didn`t know about the seven wonders of the Isle of Wight?....
1, Cowes....you cannot milk.
2, Freshwater...you cannot drink.
3, Ryde....where you walk.
4, Newport...you cannot bottle.
5, Lake....you can drive through.
6, Needles...you cannot thread.
7, Sandown Bay...bl**dy lovely in the summer!!

Plus of course our amazing list of famous residents...but i`ll save those for later

Clan Chieftain · Post by **Clan Chieftain** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:33 pm

8) and the marinas you cant sail in.

Uncle Frank · Post by **Uncle Frank** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:35 pm

Very good

I missed that one :shock: 8)

Uncle Frank · Post by **Uncle Frank** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:15 pm

Here you go Larry, as it still seems to be like a morgue on this site at the mo`...7 famous residents of the Isle of Wight...
1. Alfred lord Tennyson.
2. Queen Victoria.
3. Karl Marx.
4. J.B. Priestly.
5. Keats.
6. King Charles 1st.
7. Dame Julia Margaret Cameron.

Not bad for a little Island off the south coast !!

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Clan Chieftain · Post by **Clan Chieftain** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:46 pm

8) never heard of number 7.
we have the royals up here every year just to keep their culture up a bit.and we have the best golf courses.just look at carnoustie this week.
one of the bombers ended up in glasgow royal infirmary and he was complaining about the food...potatoes.haggis and turnips. the nurse said what do you expect you are in the BURNS unit.

Uncle Frank · Post by **Uncle Frank** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:34 pm

Julia Mararet Cameron was a very famous Victorian Photographer, her old house, Dimbola lodge is now open to the public in Freshwater, it was opened a few years ago by Charlton Heston...perhaps youv`e heard of him??, we don`t get many Royal visitors these days, we seem to get Rock royalty instead...Rolling Stones, David Bowie, etc, etc...also a wee Scots band went down quite well too, i think they were called Kasabian!!

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JIM73 · Post by **JIM73** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 11:30 pm

Your forgetting Geoff Hughes also living on the island Frank !!

Uncle Frank · Post by **Uncle Frank** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:13 pm

I had not forgotten him Jim, he just wasn`t quite in the same league as the others!!, and apart from him we have Dame Ellen McArthur, Shaw Taylor, Celia Imrie, Kenneth Baker, Alan Titchmarsh...and to top it all Rio Ferdinands Gran!!

The General · Post by **The General** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:32 pm

hope she i a better centre half han him cause he is mince.

Uncle Frank · Post by **Uncle Frank** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:45 pm

Hi Ray, she couldn`t be any worse!!, then again Colin Hendry was good until Gazza made that delightful chip over his head before sinking the Scots again

JIM73 · Post by **JIM73** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:46 pm

I wont tell geoff you said that about him , he'll be most upset !!! lol

JIM73 · Post by **JIM73** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:50 pm

And you forgot that the late "mr bronson" from grange hill, used to live in ryde !! aahh!! those blissfull days chasing him drunkenly down ryde high street for his autograph LOL