Langweilig

I've been looking at the views from the IOM webcams and to be honest, nothing I saw would be called "beautiful" or "inspirational". https://www.gov.im/webcams/douglas-marina/ What a lovely view of Ramsey's sludge-filled harbour at low tide. If your Government really wants to attract tourists, do you think they'd have the sense to show more attractive views of Ellan Vannin? Fair enough, the IOM webcams may be redundant now that we've Google maps and street view. The views I saw were so disappointing.

I heard on the Stephen Nolan show on Radio Ulster that the underpaid and inexperienced replacement P&O crew members have been ringing the unfairly-sacked original crew, asking then how to operate item's of ship's equipment.

From the BBC News website - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-60445491?at_custom1=[post+type]&at_custom4=757E73DE-918F-11EC-B993-39B6923C408C&at_campaign=64&at_medium=custom7&at_custom2=facebook_page&at_custom3=BBC+News&fbclid=IwAR1H4Tg0q4ZE8knEbtiHDNPo7fCVWERyeVOPXz3ixP3MaFOXt3S9W8yquws

The number of drivers who drove straight across the err...roundabout. You do find such drivers at mini-roundabouts. But other than that, I heard the words, "Five-year plan". It's like something you'd find in the history of the Soviet Union.

Did you check the contents of all your wheelie bins or if your parcel was chucked over a garden wall? It happened to a parcel "delivered" to a neighbour of mine.

Oh, you mean THAT "roundabout"? I've a theory that it's a racing circuit for Peel P50 cars.

A very interesting plan for "Royal" Ramsey, especially this in relation to the Queen's Pier - "Transition area to allow direct access to the Victorian Pier". I take it that means the pier will be "refurbished" for future use at some stage?

It seems to be a Victorian thing. Where you have a beach, you need a promenade. All the same, I love looking at old Manx photos of how Douglas has changed over time. It's interesting to note that there were road-widening and land reclamation schemes going on. For example in and around Broadway and also Port Jack to accommodate the Manx Electric Railway.

I saw a report about FC Isle of Man on the BBC lunchtime news. I think it's a good idea to create this team and I wish them all the very best of luck.

I haven't been to the Isle of Man since 2009. But I'd go back, not expecting to see things as I last saw them. It would help the island's tourist industry if certain people in authority wouldn't demolish historic buildings. I recently read that HMP Douglas had been demolished. I think that there was a lot of tourist potential locked up in it (pun intended) and it wouldn't have competed with the other Manx prison in Castle Rushen. Douglas prison could've alternatively been used as a conference centre or a gallery, for example.

OOPS! https://fb.watch/7EJ8tbZUuN/

Not a problem. Anytime I visited the Isle of Man, I always enjoyed outdoor eating in places such as the Min-Y-Don cafe and the veranda cafe in the Villa marina theatre in addition to The Cosy Nook.

Incorporating the Laxey mine tunnels, do you think?

Please accept my most sincere, humble and grovelling apologies that this report of a proposed roundabout under Ellan Vannin is sourced from the Daily Mail. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9283331/Boris-Johnson-wants-giant-ROUNDABOUT-Isle-Man-connect-Britain-Northern-Ireland.html?ito=social-facebook&fbclid=IwAR0He7dZg3tNALGd_jCUy1tEAWQZqkj4xO_vui8-4sRe1a24j5qFIYF4LQI

I would've thought that was obvious. Pick up practically any Manx tourist guide book and it tells you "It has its own parliament, laws and postage stamps". It wouldn't surprise me if people still think the Isle of Man still has hanging and birching for certain offences.