The marker

A tower on the hill above the Villa Marina, older than the promenade below it.

Crow’s feet

A walk around Douglas hunting Ordnance Survey bench marks, with mixed results.

Manx flags, a milk carton, and cats everywhere. I still cannot tell you what happens.

A brass band in the Arcade, ten tonnes of Wurlitzer overhead, and not a penny at the door.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor at the Villa, and a reminder that warmth on a stage still works.

Katie Hopkins at the Gaiety. I went ready to enjoy myself. I did not.

Nearly 3,000 gather at the birthplace of Pilates, missing one world record but breaking another.

The King’s first visit as Lord of Mann: an address to Tynwald, the crowds out in force, and 150 years of the horse trams.

The famous tin bath races in Castletown harbour, where sinking is less a risk than a scheduled feature.

The Red Arrows over Douglas Bay during TT week, with a rainbow laid on as a backdrop.