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Devizes Food & Drink Festival 2024 Program Announced
We love Devizes, we love food, and we love drink too! What’s not to like when the Devizes Food & Drink Festival launch, (or could we say lunch?!) their program of events for this year?! The Festival runs from 21st-29th September, in which during that time you could be tasting tucker from Italy to Ukraine,… Read more
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Cotswold Water Park to be Renamed
Here’s a prime example as to why I could never be a councillor….. Cotswold District Council will vote on changing the name of Cotswold Water Park to Cotswold Lakes because visitors turn up expecting water slides, being the term is usually used for water theme parks. How two dimensional is that thinking? Imagine having to… Read more
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Wiltshire Council Leader Weeps Over The Scrapping of the Stonehenge Tunnel!
Tory tears welled at County Hall this week, when Cllr Richard Clewer, leader of Wiltshire Council threw his teddies from his pram over the Government’s motion to cancel the A303 Stonehenge tunnel project, while The Stonehenge Alliance welcomed the announcement by Chancellor Rachel Reeves to cancel the £2.5bn scheme as a “low value, unaffordable commitment.” Clewer… Read more
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Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 31st July – 6th August 2024
We’re into August already; Christmas before you know it, so you better get outside and taste the sun while it lasts…. Here’s what we’ve found in the wilds of Wiltshire this coming week, provided the Earth isn’t hit by a meteorite….a meaty feast pizza-orite, maybe, that’s okay, and the kind of cataclysmic event I dream… Read more
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Devizes Scooter Rally Rules, OK?!
If it’s been a fantastic weekend on Devizes Green with the orchestral Full-Tone Festival, further out of town scooterists, mods, skins and anyone else with a penchant for the merger of such retrospective subcultures gathered for an equally thrilling event, Devizes Scooter Rally 2024, backed by the shack of a soul boss, most turnin’, stormin’,… Read more
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My Complaint About Devizes’ Full-Tone Festival!
Images Used With Permission of Gail Foster Chief organiser of the Full-Tone Festival, Jemma Brown has always been high on my list of local folk of admiration, but went a notch higher Sunday upon delivering a sly quip on stage, in retaliation to a lone keyboard warrior inanely slating the festival on Facebook, while the majority… Read more
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