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  • Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas at The Rowdey Cow!

    Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas at The Rowdey Cow!

    Itโ€™s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Rowdey Cow cafe and ice cream parlour; their Christmas Tree Light Switch On is this Friday, the 21st Novemberโ€ฆ.. If you thought an ice cream parlour was restricted to summertime, think again! Itโ€™s the first time the Rowdey Cow near Devizes has held a Christmas… Read more

  • Steatopygous Album Marks Pinnacle for Sketchbook Records

    Steatopygous Album Marks Pinnacle for Sketchbook Records

    Raging expressions of angered feminist teenage anguish this month, perfectly delivered by Steatopygous via their mindblowing debut album Songs of Salome, I hail as the pinnacle of Sketchbook Records to date. But it’s only been a year since Simon formed the label. It’s DIY, a contemporary local counterculture ethos; welcome to the Wiltshire underground of… Read more

  • No Migrants in Wiltshire Military Bases; Newsquest Journalist Challenges Mail’s Falsehoods

    No Migrants in Wiltshire Military Bases; Newsquest Journalist Challenges Mail’s Falsehoods

    Local reporter of the month award, if I had a local reporter of the month award, which I don’t, but based on this, perhaps I should have a local reporter of the month award, goes to Newsquest senior reporter Sarah Dalton, whether she wants the award or not, not that there even is one!! Credit… Read more

  • Cheerio Wilko; Wiltshireโ€™s PCC is Shown the Door!

    Cheerio Wilko; Wiltshireโ€™s PCC is Shown the Door!

    The only good to have come from Wiltshire having a Police Crime Commissioner was proof The Conservatives used their power to reward their elite bum chums and family with overpaid, high power and often completely unnecessary penpushing jobsโ€ฆ. A Devizes Conservative town councillor once told me if I โ€œget the chance to interview Philip (Wilkinson)… Read more

  • Love is for Life (Not Only for Christmas Time) Says Hannah Collins

    Love is for Life (Not Only for Christmas Time) Says Hannah Collins

    And so it begins, the build-up, the tension; come all ye faithful round yon virgins and three kings of orient are, spreading joy to the world while shepherds wash their socks and Batman smells. In which, in order to spread warm emotions of peace and unity for the one day, itโ€™s obligatory to rush around… Read more

  • Sarah C Ryan Band’s Radio Silence

    Sarah C Ryan Band’s Radio Silence

    If you need a reason to understand why I was so excited about The Sarah C Ryan Band coming to RowdeFest back in May, you wasn’t there!! And if you wasn’t, well, I’m not going to pick on you, just leave said example below and let you decide….. My Radio Silence, recorded for a session… Read more