This week’s horoscopes from Mystic Chess
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Shaping the Women of the Future
Girlguiding Isle of Man strides to empower our young women and give them the skills they need for their future.
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Mystic Chess Horoscope 19/07
Aquarius (Jan 20 – Feb 18) If you have something to share with the world, and you don’t know how to say it: interpretive dance is always a winner. Pisces (Feb 19- Mar 20) A strong feeling of surprising ease always proceeds to the realisation that you’ve failed to do […]
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The Perfect Flower for Any Occasion
What’s nicer than receiving a gorgeous bunch of flowers, specifically chosen for you?
Part of the Robinson’s Don’t Let The Legs Fall Off campaign
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Mystic Chess Horoscope 12/07
Aquarius (Jan 20 – Feb 18) Someone who will change your world will enter your life, Aquarius. Unfortunately, it’ll be at the end of the year. Hang tight and be bored until then, I guess? Pisces (Feb 19- Mar 20) If ignoring a problem doesn’t make it go away, try […]
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Love Island Roundup: Week 2
Another week of Love Island, as mind-numbing as the last. It’s been a difficult week of watching, that started with Chuggs and Brad fighting for the affections of Rachel. Chuggs referred to himself as “jugs”, the kind of Freudian slip that is bound to happen if you’re surrounded by girls […]
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Pitching a Manx Reality Show
Chess Bradley has some ideas for a Manx reality TV series.
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Love Island Roundup: Week 1
It’s been over a year since there has been a series of Love Island on our screens. But now, with the footie on, sun (somewhat) out and a bunch of half-dressed twenty-somethings on our screens, it feels like summer is truly here. On Monday, there was a naive conversation in […]
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A Love Letter to Being Basic
On the last series of Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK, in a mini challenge, Tia Kofi was declared to be ‘baroness basic’: a title that overshadowed the rest of her performance on the show. By the way, if you don’t know what Ru Paul’s Drag Race is, this article isn’t […]
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Five Other Uses for the Roundel
With the roundel being a questionable roundabout, we’ve come up with a few alternative uses for the fresh new road markings.
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A Love Letter To Manx Businesses
Shopaholic? Where is better to spend cash than our Manx businesses?
Ad Feature by the Isle of Man Government
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The Island’s Very Own Master Fishmonger
Did you know that we have some of the best fishmongers in the world, right here, on-island?
Part of the Robinson’s Don’t Let The Legs Fall Off campaign
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Record Store Day(s) 2021
Obsessed with vinyl? Sound Records will be celebrating all things vinyl on 12th June and 17th July for Record Store Day(s)
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Gef Jobs Has Landed
How did you feel when you returned to work after the weekend? If you felt anything other than BUZZING to be back, surrounded by colleagues, ready to dive back into work, it’s maybe time to consider a job change. After spending much of this past year in lockdown, we’ve all […]
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A Love Letter To Eurovision
In Susan Sontag’s Notes on Camp, Sontag defines the essence of camp as “its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration”. What, then, could be more camp than Eurovision? Eurovision is what a European Parliament meeting would look like if it was run by drag queens. Except, of course, […]
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Gef’s Daily Roundup
UK Covid R-Value rises above 1 In the UK, the Covid R-rate has risen above one. However, it appears that next month’s removal of Covid restrictions across the UK will still go ahead. Israel and Hamas agree ceasefire After 11 days of fighting, in which over 250 people have died, […]
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What’s the Isle of Man Census – and why should I care?
Ad Feature by the Isle of Man Government
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A Love Letter To Beauticians
This third lockdown has really revealed how ugly I can be. My post-lockdown 2 hairdressing appointment was scheduled for March (still, far too late), and cancelled because of lockdown three. I can’t get an appointment until the end of May (to my boss: this is my formal request for the […]
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Crab Diaries: A letter to Manx Seagulls
To seagull’s defence, they are notoriously protective mothers. But just because you love your kids, doesn’t mean that you can be violent.
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Debunking Vaccines With a Really Clever Doctor
Dr Jennifer Duggan, who works at the Southern Practice, to give us the low down on the vaccine.
Ad Feature by the Isle of Man Government
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Sticking Together
Peggy’s are using their iconic stickers to spread a very important message.
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Wine Straight To Your Door? Cheers To That
Two things Gef loves: buying wine and supporting local businesses. That’s why we LOVE Wine Cellar’s deliveries, which bring wine, beer, and spirits straight to your door. Click to find out why buying wine locally is the best way to buy…
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Crab Diaries: A Letter To Anonymous Online Crabs
Introducing crab diaries: like a love letter, for everything we don’t love. Don’t expect posi vibes, this is a column for all our pent up Karen feelz.
This week, we’re (ironically?) having a moan about anonymous crabs.
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Myth Busting: EGaming
EGaming is a relatively new industry, but it’s one that’s taking over the island. It’s big business, with big opportunities- but how much do you really know about the industry? We chatted with our mates over at Amber Gaming to bust some of the myths surrounding one of the quickest growing industries.
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A Love Letter To Daytime TV
Chess Bradley shares her new love for daytime TV and how it’s got her through Lockdown 3.0
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Sixth Form Student Publishes First Novel
Mitzi Danielson-Kaslik, 17, is publishing her first novel. Palvine, is a young-adult novel, following an unnamed narrator as she becomes involved with the titular Sylvester Spence Palvine, who has been wrongly assumed to be the perpetrator of a murderer- resulting in his two-year period of hiding.
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Gef’s Daily Roundup
In today’s roundup we have a phone box at Cregneash making headlines, Pfizer announce trial results in children and Councils in England and Wales have filled in 1.7m potholes in the last year.