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  • Lost Dildo in Quakers Walk Needs Reuniting with Owner!

    Lost Dildo in Quakers Walk Needs Reuniting with Owner!

    If you go down to Quakers Walk today, you’d better go in disguiseโ€ฆ and perhaps an open mind…. Who’d thought sharing a post about Devizes Town Council’s honest pledge to โ€œreduce plastic waste and create a sustainable future,โ€ would unearth such a remarkable and comical find as this โ€ฆ.a lost neck massager in Quakers Walk?… Read more

  • Way to Start the Year; Bradford Roots Festival 2024

    Way to Start the Year; Bradford Roots Festival 2024

    Hibernating since Christmas, now I feel like a turkey, making up for it, stuffing eighteen bands into eight hours, such is the beauty of Bradford Roots Festivalโ€ฆ.. Impossible to provide detailed analysis of each with such a sizable quota, not without an essay-length review, and there’s the handful I missed. Suffice it to say, every… Read more

  • Devizes Youth Action Group Host U18 Gig at The Exchange

    The first gig and club night exclusively for Secondary school aged youth in Devizes is set for Friday 2nd of February at the Exchange nightclub. In conjunction with St James Church, the Devizes Youth Action Group has organised this event for youth, run by youth and created by youth…..only making me wish I was a… Read more

  • Learn the Art of Chocolate with HollyChocsย 

    Learn the Art of Chocolate with HollyChocsย 

    Devizes-based chocolate engineer Holly Garner, 2023 Chocolate Champion for the Southwest, has launched her new chocolate classes for the first half of 2024โ€ฆโ€ฆ From learning how to make her signature caramel (she was Queen of Caramel at Cadburys) to perfect hand-rolled truffles, her classes take place at her Beanery Cafe just outside Devizes. And as… Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 17th -23rd January 2024

    V busy week ahead, too busy to type the word โ€œvery,โ€ (though I just did type the word โ€œvery,โ€) despite the cold spell, nothings gonna stop us now, reminding me somewhat of Ollie & Jerryโ€™s theme โ€œBreakinโ€™, thereโ€™s no stopping us.โ€ Not that it takes me much to be reminded of Ollie & Jerry –… Read more

  • How to Topple the Toriesโ€™ Melksham-Devizes Safe Seat Next General Election

    Tuesday before Christmas Iโ€™m in New Society. I gazed across to a table by the window, recalling an optimistic response from local Labour candidate Rachael Schneider-Ross when I quizzed her if she felt she had a chance in this Tory haven, in 2019. โ€œNever say never,โ€ she replied, predictably, it was not to be.…. This… Read more