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41 Fords are Not Dead Yet!
Damp morning, about 3:30am I’m descending Pelch Lane in Seend, like a sack of potatoes dropping. If you don’t know the track it’s a steep one, with a bend which keeps on giving; not the ideal place to whip out your phone and change the tune when you’re pinning down a heavily-ladened milkfloat! So, first… Read more
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Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 5th – 11th April 2023
Here we are in April, and it’s looking nice, here’s what we’ve found to do this coming week…easter bank holiday…is it, really? Sorry, I don’t get bank holidays, you lethargic lay-about chocolate-egg eating lot!! Said it before, I’ll say it again, more stuff will be added, this is published on Mondays so you’ve time to… Read more
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Frankisoul on Fire!
It got me reminiscing, the EP helping through washing-up the roast dinner plates this Sunday, Trowbridge-based Frankisoul’s newly released debut, On Fire. Ruminating my student days in the late eighties, whereby it was expected of us to take in the contemporary bleeps of acid house, blasting from a VW Beetle speaker while crowds nodded their… Read more
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A Beginner’s Introduction to Oils in All Cannings with Arts Together
A little-known personal fact, at the tender age of twelve I won a posh set of Windsor & Newton oil paints via a Kellogg’s competition, and feared to touch them for years! Oils are the crème-de-la-crème of art, in awe of those humongous Renaissance paintings hanging in the National Gallery came the worry I’d never… Read more
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Hometown Gig for Nothing Rhymes with Orange
First one in what I hope to be a series diverting negative local social media hysteria about wayward youths in our area, must be a Devizes-based indie-pop band of young hoodlums with nothing better to do with their time than pick up guitars and drums, practise like crazy, self-promote themselves, and name themselves with a… Read more
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Gazette & Herald to Buy Out Devizine
In a deal I’ve been trying to clench for a year now, Newsquest, owners of Wiltshire based newspapers, including the Gazette & Herald have taken the decision today to buy out Devizine and merge it with the Gazette……. It is fantastic news for us, as Devizine readers will no longer have to put up with… Read more
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