As December speedily runs out of days we offer up a festive-readiness edition of our pod, that is light on festive readiness, but leaves hints that something big is looming just around the corner.

Acutely aware of our respective obligations to contribute temporal and digital seasonal pronouncements, we prevaricate around topical news, trips, and island discoveries.  This may or may not be our pre-Christmas episode, as frantic planning continues in our production office, so we sprinkle in a little festively fungible fun that can be taken to be seasonal, or not.

From bananas slipping up folk on island beaches, to new adventures in breadmaking, and new professional bakery discoveries in Godshill, we take trips to Youlgrave, to Hackney, to Hampstead and home.

If this is our last outing of the year, we are looking forward to our Christmastime with family and friends, and want to thank you all for listening to us throughout the year.  If we squeeze out another amuse-bouche in advance of the festive season then you can be sure we’ll sprinkle it with our usual mix of topical chat, domestic updates, and island happenings.

We’re delighted to report that we have some looming competition on the New Year horizon, as a new Isle of Wight podcast has just this week soft-launched their new output flying under the banner, Talk the Wight, a cool title, almost as cool as QWightLike A Podcast.  We wish the team there every success in their new endeavour, and hope they have as much pleasure doing it as we do.

Thanks for listening.

Tim and Rory

Another instalment of chirpy chat chunters in your direction with a good sprinkle of laughs, opinion, and reminiscences.  The clocks have gone back warming up our TV snug viewings with dark evenings, and our minds are turned back in time to remember a TV classic from the mid-80s available to catch-up on BBC IPlayer and BBC4.  The Edge of Darkness marks the beginning of our winter viewing recommendations.

As always, we share our recent trips and experiences, so can take you from Picasso at the Tate, to sausages at Stoats Farm.  What’s not to like about that eclectic promise!?

There’s many more characters left to fill up this episode introduction, but this time I’m going to cut short the velocity of verbal volleys and instead implore you to just give us a listen.  If you like what you hear, and you’re a first time visitor, you’ve got a 3 year long back catalogue of more of the same, with some real conversational gems to find lurking in our episodes to keep you amused, informed, and up to speed, well, with at least us 2.

Thanks for listening

Tim and Rory

Returning from the holiday hiatus, your heroic hosts hunker down to hark back at the various highlights and happenings that surrounded our various trips h’away with the ladies.  Both parties experienced sniffles whilst away but we still found plenty to extol and share of our adventures abroad.

Safely ensconced back home, we share our ramblings as we settle back into our island life and continue where we left off with coffee stops and breakfast bites from around the island.  

The title hints apart, you’ll hear us wax inexorably on a multitude of subjects that take our, and hopefully your, fancy as we warm up our podcasting muscles for the autumn/winter phase of our third season.

Where else will you be taken from party politics to OnlyFans; from ferries to elephants on the roof; and from Scotland at the United Nations to David Bowie’s summer season as a drummer in an island music venue?

We quite like making this podcast and we hope you quite like listening to QWightLike. A Podcast.  Let us know what else you’d like us to cover as we oil up our wheels and set course for some content-on-the go in the weeks and months ahead.

Thanks for listening.

Rory and Tim

A frustrated period of post-production on the podcast comes to an end with a Scottish nose thumbed up at a new technology offering which failed to perform as advertised, thus delaying the release of this twelfth episode of topical chat from series the third.  Mentioning no names, your team reverted to traditional methods of episode production despite trialling a new tool to record.  The grand plan was to bring you video of your two hosts dualling over an online recording session, but in the end, with time at a premium and the impossible user interface of the trialled tool failing to perform we are left with the audio, slightly enhanced, if a little “metallic” in places.  So, with apologies for a few days delay we are proud to bring you our ramblings and musings from events over the last few weeks.

From holidays off and on the north island, to visitors bringing happy times to our island homes, and through trips and visits to experiences and hospitality right on our doorsteps, we can declare that the prize is Wight, for residents and visitors alike.

From boat trips, to theme parks, via coffee stops and breakfast shots, we cover a lot of ground, literally and metaphorically, within our budgeted 60 minutes.

A new listener requests section is kicked off with a discussion on the St George’s flag phenomenon making sporadic appearances across England, and with sensitive politics requiring delicate handling, we veer towards less controversial chat concerning the Thursday Murder Club, the cricket Hundred, Women’s Rugby World Cup, whilst going “potty” about a visit to Keith Brymer Jones’, Pwllheli home whose refurbishment was covered on a recent TV documentary.

So, another three weeks and a bit, has passed, and with more holiday experiences to share in the weeks ahead, we leave you to enjoy the dozenth episode, with more offers ahead ready to bake for your delectation and delight.

Our tremendous two have spent the summer channelling the exciting adventures of the Famous Five and the Secret Seven, and promise to bring you more in the weeks and months ahead as we rustle through the fallen leaves for more stories to tell.

Thanks for listening.

Tim and Rory

We’re back after a busy few weeks with so much to say, and so little time to say it in, that we do our best to cram in as much as we can to this hour of honest hokum.  As with all best laid plans, we perhaps set out to cover much more material than our diverse ramblings can facilitate, and so find ourselves with more to pack into this shopping bag of chat than you can bear within an hour of your lives.

Never ones to miss out on a corny segue, we spend time pondering holidays ahead, the lure of the road trip, and the accompanying sound-tracks for the miles of highway rolling out ahead of us.

As we prepare to pack for said holidays ahead we take the opportunity to unpack our much vaunted man bags, beloved of both Rory and Tim, discussing the purpose and objectives of the aforementioned portmanteaus.  As Van Morrison’s gravelly tones emerge from the dust of the discussion on hand bags and man bags (Ed - Or is it glad rags?) we swerve into the dangerous territory where we compare the domestic roles undertaken by the respective sexes.  This analysis of the task divisions within couple-dom finds your fearless fellows, treading on eggshell-strewn minefields as we “manfully” attempt to manoeuvre around these multifarious mouchoirs finding mirth as much as the measure of the subject.

With so much to say, and so much at risk of remonstrative reaction, we steer towards the simpler pleasures found in a good cup of coffee, and a brilliant breakfast at favourite establishments on our holiday island.

Tune in to find out what we squeezed out of our editorial long list in addition to the above.  As promised there was too much to fit in one carrier bag, and perhaps this podcast episode will split, like an overloaded supermarket placky bag, spilling our bon mots all over your digital floor.

Until next time, and like Rory’s man bag, we will make sure we use the correct till lane and try to restrict the running order to 8 items or less.

Thanks for listening.

Rory and Tim

Summer has been teasing us with long hot days, festivals, and hosepipe bans, so what better place to start than a meander through the many magnificent moments we’ve already experienced this summertide and a tantalising glimpse at the many more to come.

A debrief on our very own Isle of Wight Festival which took place as we released episode 9 gives an insight into how to enjoy days out as does a mention of Goodwood’s Festival of Speed which took place this last weekend with the island enjoying a couple of Red Arrows flypasts right over Rory’s West Wight abode en route to the Sussex slopes.

Life changing decisions, life affirming events, and life enhancing habits confirm, in our minds at least, that life is to be lived to the fullest extent possible by your means, and time available, because as the old truism states … you’re a long time dead.  We discuss this concept in some detail so tune in to find out our conclusions.

So, thanks for listening, and we hope you enjoy our rousing ramble through recently riveting recreational repose.

Tim and Rory

Another enforced lengthy gap between episodes sees us fire out of the blocks with some gusto with our chat guns set to share. From perfect beach days bookended with work commitments and snooping air fryers, to island artisan food producers, purveyors and places, we pull you through a whistle stop tour of great stops for breakfast, lunch and a bit of cheeky retail therapy.

Gardening joy tumbles from our lips as we recount the seasonal successes of our respective plots.  Raised beds, have raised hopes, of raised yields and we don’t disappoint.  Are you witnessing the sowing of seeds of a new segment for the podcast, where we can share tips and tricks from our respective plots?  Tune in to find out.

Coffee, breakfast, lunch, beer, cake, and gin - probably in that order - all make an appearance in our gazetter of good gaffs to grace with your presence.

We hope you enjoy our gentle topical chat and are inspired to return to each helping served up for your listening pleasure.

So, thanks for listening.

Tim and Rory

As we settle into a 3 week cadence between episodes to increase our planning time and to decrease the competitive pressures on your listening choices, we take time to celebrate activities enjoyed on and off the island.  After all, we qwight like the Isle of Wight and we quite like lots of places off-island, especially, as it makes coming home a further bonus.

From the Duver by Bembridge,  to the whiff of fete at Riverfest in Newport.  From the pirate shantys and cannon volleys off Ventnor and Bonchurch to the Higher Grounds of a new immobile coffee destination in Ryde.  From the Needles to the Nab Tower, we serve up a smorgasbord of things to do on the island.

Meanwhile, plans for a French sojourn in Brittany and reports of Wembley winners, wrap up another episode of topical chat and stories to entertain and inform.  Galleons of tea and coffee were consumed in the making of this podcast in tribute to those that have gone before us.

Wrapping up with a sprinkle of political drama with dead heats, casting votes, and friends of the podcast playing all the major roles, we slip this episode into Spotify’s loading tray with a sense of accomplishment, and with pressing deadlines, a hint of relief.

Thanks for listening

Tim and Rory

A cheeky title for this episode, the motive for which you will have to listen in to understand.  Sharp-witted humour and spicy chat is served up as a condiment to complement your diet of speech podcasting. 

We weave between rivers of nostalgic reminiscences and the pleasure of mapping out future plans, in our very own conclave as we ruminate on potential exciting outside broadcast scenarios from buses to cycle paths.

We chant our way through gardening stories as we are surrounded by friendly weather leading us and our other halves into the great outdoors to do battle with bindweed and horse tail.  Listen in to find out how a gardening festival will be battling with an island sporting event.

We wrap up an eclectic mix from your chatty men with tributes to musical heroes and advocate for campaigns to keep vital local services alive and kicking.

Whatever the weather, we hope you enjoy your gardens, and make the most of opportunities to engage in cultural experiences.  After all, this is what fuels our podcast.

When you are reading this, the English partial local election night will be over, votes will have been counted and we’ll analyse those results next time out.

Thanks for listening.

Rory and Tim

Another hour of topical chat starts off with a nostalgic foray into the world of the trade fair.  Recollections of times gone by, when sales were made, hangovers earned and swag gathered, are brought right up to date as Tim inventorises his plunder from an event at Birmingham's NEC.  Stationery stocked up for the year ahead, we discuss how trade fairs have evolved, and evaluate if the Isle of Wight could be turned into a floating offshore exhibition venue.

How to spend our downtime fills the middle portion of our ponderous ponderings, and we wax polemically, on the choices we have to read, to listen, to watch, or to experience.  We choose the podcasts we consider to be the fount of all human communications and share some embryonic ideas about nostalgic tech and gadgets with a promise of a future special.

Political lunches and Bob’s Bread Circle wrap up our fortnightly ramble as we flesh out plans for future podcast specials and assess the island ferries as being the equivalent of a rocket ship launch when leaving the island, and a safe, gentle re-entry with splashdown upon returning.

Stick with us as summer vibes start to take hold in the joyous life-affirming discourse captured in our hour of inspirational outpourings.  If not you, then whom.

Thanks for listening

Tim and Rory