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Get Involved in Cemetery Restoration Project and Learn New Skills
09, Jun 2010 in Education, Island-wide, Isle of Wight Council, News
Learn new skills for free and be part of a major restoration project
Annual Hedgelaying Comp This Saturday
22, Feb 2010 in Education, Freshwater, Green Issues, News, What's On, Wildlife
Hedgelaying Competition returns with even more prizes than ever.
Free Hedgelaying Course
19, Jan 2010 in Conservation, Education, Environment, What's On
Free training in ancient skill of hedgelaying should prove popular so find out more asap.
Festival of Traditional Skills
21, Oct 2009 in Education, Events, Freshwater, Green Issues, What's On
This weekend provides a great opportunity to see experts demonstrate traditional skills.
Paul Davis: Winner of The Annual Hedgelaying Competition 2009 (podcast)
05, Mar 2009 in Conservation, Environment, West Wight, podcast
National Trust Warden, Paul Davis, chat about his competition win.
Isle of Wight Ferries: OFT: MP Turner “Only 5% Of OFT Submissions Get This Far”
02, Mar 2009 in Island-wide, Overseas, Politics, Travel
We had a chance to quickly catch up with Andrew Turner, MP for the Isle of Wight, at the Hedgelaying competition, the day after the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) announced that their Market Study into the Isle of Wight Ferries.
He was obviously pleased that the work that he and Carole had put into collating and submitting the information to the OFT had produced some results. Quite rightly so, only 5% of the submission to the OFT get to this point of attention.
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Isle of Wight Hedgelaying Competition
27, Feb 2009 in Competitions, Conservation, Environment, Events, West Wight
Tomorrow sees the return of the Annual Isle of Wight Hedgelaying Competition an event that has captured our interest over the last couple of years.
Every year it moves location and tomorrow you’ll need to head out to the beautiful location of Dunsbury Farm in Brook if you want to catch the action.
Kicking off at 10am the competitors will be busy creating their hedges until 3pm with the prize giving taking place at around 3.30pm.
Watch TV and Save The Planet?
22, Feb 2009 in Business, Community, Conservation, Environment, Media
Want to do your bit to save the planet, and still be a couch potato?
Well, if you missed staying in on Friday night (20 February) for BBC2′s Natural World then sadly you won’t be able to catch the usual Sunday evening repeat, because for some reason they’re not doing it this week.
However, you can still catch it online on the BBC’s iPlayer (in the next 23 days).
Give it a watch and it might inspire you to get up and outside after all!
Annual Hedgelaying Competition: The results
26, Feb 2008 in Central Wight, Environment
Thanks to Matthew Chatfield for sending through results from the Annual Hedgelaying Competition that took place last Saturday.
According to the Isle of Wight Hedgerow Group website, this was the largest competition so far.
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Don’t Forget Hedgelaying Comp
22, Feb 2008 in Central Wight, Environment
Yes folks, this Saturday sees the return of the annual hedgelaying competition.
Action kicks off at 10am and the prizes for the best laid hedge will be presented at around 3pm. Read more on Don’t Forget Hedgelaying Comp…
Annual Hedgelaying Competition
12, Feb 2008 in Events
Great news just in from the Council press office is notification of the Annual Hedgelaying Competition.
You might remember the coverage we gave to the event last year with a follow up article from hedgelaying extraordinaire, Oz Hoskyns of Hobbit House.
This will be the 16th competition on the Wight and this year takes place next to the Fighting Cocks pub at Hale Common, near Arreton. Read more on Annual Hedgelaying Competition…
The Ancient Craft Of Hedgelaying In The 21st Century
13, Mar 2007 in Environment
You will remember that we got very excited about the recent Hedgelaying competition in Blackwater. It might not be very ‘street’, but without skills like this on the Island, our environment could end up looking very different – imagine all those hedges, which provide homes for wonderful wildlife, all gone and bog standard fences in their place. Well, one of the contestants, Oz Hoskyns, who took third place in the competition and trains hedgelaying to the amateur enthusiast through his business Hobbit House, has very kindly agreed to write a piece for the blog … and here it follows.
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And we’re back!
10, Mar 2007 in Community
Thanks everyone for your patience whilst we switched servers this week.
We’d been having problems with the old server (you might’ve noticed it was getting pretty slow and chucking out errors every so often), so we took the opportunity to switch whilst being away for a couple of days.
Annual Isle of Wight Hedgelaying Competition
23, Feb 2007 in Community, Outta Town, Sports
As we were driving back from Newport on Thursday, just past Blackwater, we noticed some poor souls in a very wet field who seemed to be working hard at laying at hedge.
Well, we couldn’t resist, so turned the car around and went back to investigate – despite this weeks activities, it’s not just all politics for us you know.
A rather friendly chap called Oswald Hoskyns came to greet us, probably wondering what on earth we wanted, and he went on to explain that they were preparing for the upcoming Annual Isle of Wight Hedgelaying Competition.
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