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hi, I know Iam new my name is Vectusian, my interests
are on the subject of the Isle of Wight dialect.
and how to get hold of a copy of W.H.Longs book.As you see it also has some of the music from the Isle. This also is of interest to me as I enjoy singing and would
love to aquire the words and music of those local songs.
This would then teach my offspring some what the Isle is all about.
As a child growing up in the isle during W.W.2 It was a
not to thrilling, as you could not enjoy the things we now take for granted. One thing that does stick in your mind was watching a Spitefire chasing a German Fighter
across the sky just roof top high,over the house I was
born in. Also this house was three storys high and I was leaning out of the open window. Iwould have been all of six years of age.
After the war my father and my uncle had the use of a
bach(holiday hut with sleeping) where we would spend the
whole summer from August week until I went back to school
During this time my Uncle and my Father would go prawning
They made there nets by attaching fishing net to a frame
that had wings. It was like a Broom the wings were inserted into the broom head as far out as possible,
and it contuined making the shape off the wings as it
pasted under the handle were it was fixed and finally
around in the form of the wing again on the other side.
Armed with one each and with spring tides they would
go down to the shore near Gurnard where there is lots
of rocks, and push these up and down,and in and out of the rocks catching prawns.they would bring them back to the bach and cook them in sea water and we would then eat prawns for tea with lovely fresh salad.
I wonder if people still do this when the tides are right in the summer time.
Another thing they did was to gather the sloes from the hedgeways and make sloe wine, which would then have Gin
added (I believe this was aquired on the black market)
making their own Sloe Gin. We would also collect the cream off the milk and make our own butter, all helped
when you could not get things.
I think I have rabbited on enough so I will sign off
yours Vectusian

Hi Vectusian,

What a fascinating story.

We have a whole project on the Isle of Wight shipwrecks A894116 (all the pages are listed at the top of the main page) which you may be interested in.

Have you joined one of our sister sites? http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/

Some more entries you may find interesting are Aircraft of the Isle of Wight: 1900 - 1919 A430886

The musicians guild U150368 may be able to help with the song lyrics.

Tales like the one you have just told me are the kind of thing that the Underguide and <./>thepost</.> are looking for. Writing-Alternative has more info.

Don't worry about rabbitting on, I can do it too!

I hope you have had chance to look around and are enjoying the site



Mort