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Gef’s Daily Roundup
One World Centre organise street collection for Ukraine One World Centre is organising a street collection around the Isle of Man this weekend in aid of the DEC UKraine Appeal. The volunteers will be out with their buckets in Douglas, Ramsey, Peel, Castletown and Port Erin this Saturday and Sunny. […]
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Sex Education in 2022
Ahead of some questions about sex education being raised in House of Keys, we have a look at what sex education needs to look like in 2022
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A Love Letter to manx.net
SCENARIO: Imagine you’re on holiday, somewhere nice. Maybe you’re on a beach, cocktail in hand, maybe you’re by a pool. You get chatting to another tourist, who is laid out next to you. They point out your rapidly reddening skin and you tell them that they shouldn’t worry about you: […]
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An Open Letter to Kirstie Alsopp
Chess Bradley writes to Location, Location, Location presenter Kirsty Allsopp to share her opinions about housing.
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Reasons to Attend: Net Zero Events
Ad Feature: Get involved by attending webinars and meeting members of the team.
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The Regina George of British Politics
I start this off with a disclaimer: I believe there is no such thing as a good Tory (please also note: the views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Gef’s editorial stance- although they should). Yet, what I do enjoy, is a Tory […]
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Mystic Chess’ Pet Horoscopes
This week’s horoscopes by Mystic Chess- this time, for your pets 🔮
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Mystic Chess’ Predictions for 2022
Mystic Chess reveals what’s in store in 2022 🔮
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Mystic Chess Horoscopes 20/12
AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18) You’ll remember the person whose Christmas present you forgot to buy, right at the moment you’re too late to get anything for them. PISCES (FEB 19- MAR 20) Watch out for who is lingering under the mistletoe, or else you could end up snogging […]
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Ballakermeen puts contingency plans in place
Due to high levels of absence, Ballakermeen High School have set up a contingency plan, in the event that staff attendance rates deteriorate further. The plan will ask students in years 10-13 to remain at home on the last two days of the term. In a statement posted on the […]
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Gef’s Merry Manxmas Gift Guide
Trying to work out what to get someone for Christmas is, well, hard. That’s why, at Gef, we’ve kindly rounded up the very best of presents that you can buy here, from the very best businesses the island has to offer. Okell’s Inns Perfect for: pub lovers Buy: pubsandbars.im/gift-cards/ This […]
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Secret Santa Gifts They’ll Actually Want
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Gifts For People Who Just Love The IOM
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Online booking for booster jabs launched
A new system for booking vaccination booster jabs online has gone live today. The system offers Manx residents a convenient way to book their slot at the Chester St Vaccination Clinic, while helping fill up available appointments and relieving pressure on the 111 service. The Island’s booster programme is being […]
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Introducing: the Hoolie pop up shop
Been to town recently? Have you despaired at the abundance of empty shops? Have you been left just wanting… more? Never fear, we’re bringing a whole hoolie into Duke Street from today, with our Hoolie pop-up. Hoolie is the best place to get your Christmas presents, with a truly local […]
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Gef’s Daily Round up
News from on and off island.
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Gef’s Daily Roundup
News from on and off island.
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There’s a Hoolie Coming…
Haven’t started your Christmas shopping yet? Some would call that procrastination. Others would say that you have had excellent intuition that something big was on its way, like a massive Hoolie, that’ll shake up your Manx retail experience. Introducing Hoolie, brought to you by the people who brought you Gef […]
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Anxious About The Climate? You’re Not Alone
I have a bit of climate anxiety. This is one of those statements that I just know would wind up the boomers and gen-xers, the sort of thing that makes them think that my generation is full of wet wipes and snowflakes. But it’s true: I’m scared for the planet. […]
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Mystic Chess Horoscopes 01/10
AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18) A huge ‘treat yourself’ energy is in-coming this week. If you’re looking for something to treat yourself with, can I recommend a Mystic Chess t-shirt? PISCES (FEB 19- MAR 20) Time flies when you’re having fun. This will be a long week. ARIES (MAR […]
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Drink Spiking: ‘I Couldn’t Move Or Speak’
Trigger warning: spiking and sexual assault
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Hop-Tu-Naa Costumes For 2021
With just a few days until Hop-Tu-Naa, we’ve compiled a list of somewhat culturally relevant costumes that are bound to turn heads. Bernie Sanders Can you believe it was only this year that Bernie Sanders sat in the cold at Biden’s inauguration, wearing those mittens? This is an immensely practical […]
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Gef’s Daily Roundup
News from on and off island.
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Mystic Chess Horoscopes 25/10
This week’s horoscopes brought to you by Mystic Chess 🔮
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My Story: Sally Mac
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Gef is profiling the models for the Fashion for Life fashion show, in aid of Isle of Man Breast Care and Breast Cancer Now Volunteering in the IOM. The show, which takes place on Friday 22nd October, will feature 80s-inspired fashion, modeled by […]
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My Story – Claire Corrin
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Gef is profiling the models for the Fashion for Life fashion show, in aid of Isle of Man Breast Care and Breast Cancer Now Volunteering in the IOM. The show, which takes place on Friday 22nd October, will feature 80s-inspired fashion, modeled by […]
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My Story – Sandy Denning
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Gef is profiling the models for the Fashion for Life fashion show, in aid of Isle of Man Breast Care and Breast Cancer Now Volunteering in the IOM. The show, which takes place on Friday 22nd October, will feature 80s-inspired fashion, modeled by […]
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My Story – Cath Robertshaw
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Gef is profiling the models for the Fashion for Life fashion show, in aid of Isle of Man Breast Care and Breast Cancer Now Volunteering in the IOM. The show, which takes place on Friday 22nd October, will feature 80s-inspired fashion, modeled by […]
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My Story – Bruno Barton
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Gef is profiling the models for the Fashion for Life fashion show, in aid of Isle of Man Breast Care and Breast Cancer Now Volunteering in the IOM. The show, which takes place on Friday 22nd October, will feature 80s-inspired fashion, modeled by […]
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My Story – Judith Clague
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Gef is profiling the models for the Fashion for Life fashion show, in aid of Isle of Man Breast Care and Breast Cancer Now Volunteering in the IOM. The show, which takes place on Friday 22nd October, will feature 80s-inspired fashion, modeled by […]
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My Story – Sue Kennish
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Gef is profiling the models for the Fashion for Life fashion show, in aid of Isle of Man Breast Care and Breast Cancer Now Volunteering in the IOM. The show, which takes place on Friday 22nd October, will feature 80s-inspired fashion, modeled by […]
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My Story – Sue Quilleash
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Gef is profiling the models for the Fashion for Life fashion show, in aid of Isle of Man Breast Care and Breast Cancer Now Volunteering in the IOM. The show, which takes place on Friday 22nd October, will feature 80s-inspired fashion, modeled by […]
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Check your Mystic Chest
In this article, Mystic Chess shares why breast cancer is a cause so close to her heart.
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Mystic Chess Horoscopes 12/10
This week’s horoscopes from Mystic Chess (@mysticchessiom on Twitter)
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Drag Race UK Roundup: Episode 2
This week’s Drag Race UK rounded up by Chess Bradley.
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Drag Race Roundup
Less than a year since Season 2, RuPaul’s Drag Race UK is back: bringing scandal back to BBC 3 (and spoiler alert, anytime there is something vaguely vulgar, Ru is back to remind us that, yes, we are on the BBC). Obviously, Drag Race UK is fantastic: a show that […]
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The Swearing In: Fashion Roundup
New York has the Met Gala, and we have… well, a limited number of big social events. The swearing in is perhaps the fashion event of the year- and I’m here to be the Manx Joan Rivers (RIP). There’s some interesting outfits, but unfortunately no one took a leaf out […]
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Mystic Chess Horoscopes 20/09
This week’s election special horoscopes from Mystic Chess 🔮
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I’m Aware of Migraines, Thanks
If you’ve never had a migraine, you could be excused for thinking it’s ‘just a headache’.
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A Cheeky Bit Of Kikis
I love a cocktail. But do you know what I love more than a cocktail? 120 cocktails. This was the offering from Kiki’s. Their new dispenser is like their lockdown delivery service- except supersized. The service, which launches today, includes a very ‘grammable set up of between 1 and 5 […]
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Mystic Chess Horoscopes 09/08
This week’s horoscopes brought to you by 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?
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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.