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  • Tutored Wine Tasting at St Mary’s

    Discover new tipples at a professionally-led tutored tasting. Communion wine won’t be among the offering at a tutored tasting in St Mary’s Church, Devizes, on Friday, 19th August, but instead look forward to exploring an eclectic mix of interesting wines chosen by renowned local vintner Casper Bowes. There will be something to appeal to every Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 27th July – 3rd August 2022

    Fire up those Vespas and Lambrettas, because we’re revving into August scooter style! If last weekend in Devizes was all about beer, this one’s all about scooters….and beer! See our editor’s picks section for more details about that, otherwise, here’s the lowdown on everything we’ve found to do this coming week and weekend.…. As usual Read more

  • Proper Job; Devizes Beer & Cider Festival is Back!

    Proper Job; Devizes Beer & Cider Festival is Back!

    If I said of the Full Tone Festival, last year, “and in the history of events in Devizes, the magnitude of what The Full-Tone Orchestra achieved yesterday will forever be imprinted,”  it was for two reasons; that it was, and also, aside their free gig in the Market Place, it was inaugural. Still, there’s a number of Read more

  • Broken, with Billy Green 3

    Broken, with Billy Green 3

    Rain after a heatwave can be “refreshing” rather than its normal, “annoying.” Save drizzle, though forecast, we’re still waiting for the storm. If it’s refreshing you want in the meantime, local Britpop trio, Billy Green 3 paid a visit to Potterne’s Badger Set studio, and the result is Madchester in Ibiza…. Melancholically drifting over a Read more

  • Ten Lost Characters Funko Pop Forgot

    Ten Lost Characters Funko Pop Forgot

    If Forbidden Planet is, as I suspect, owned by Dick Turpin, I report those nauseatingly cute figurines, Funko Pops, have escaped and now they’re every-bloody-where. I even saw some in the Shambles market in Devizes; and there was me assuming I could saunter through with my offspring, without the need to dust cobwebs off my Read more

  • Events in Wiltshire; Weekly Roundup: 21st to 27th July 2022

    Here we are again, a tad hot and bothered, but happy as can be. And here’s what’s happening across the Badlands of Wiltshire this coming week, which you’d already know about anyway if you regularly check our event calendar. That’s the only link you need, right there; it’ll provide you with outside links of further Read more