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Potterne, and its Festival
It’s one Devizine overlooked somewhat last year, arranged rather last minute, clashed with Full-Tone, but was still a 1,250-strong sell-out nonetheless. Potterne is not all about Ruth Pearce and Mummer plays, it has an annual festival, and so I caught up with organiser Richard Fred Kerley, to question him about this year’s. Two hundred tickets… Read more
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What Passes for Entertainment in Seend, Rolling Naked in Muck Heaps?!
Got to be the most bizarre village group Facebook post of the week, when Seend resident Amy Plumb caught a fellow rolling in her neighbour’s muck heap on Sunday evening, stark naked! They’ve got their community centre and two great pubs, is this what passes for entertainment in Seend, or just in the Cleeve, I… Read more
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Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 6th – 15th March 2023
Still a tad fragile around the edges from my birthday party, here’s what’s I’ve struggled on through to find for this coming week, in which I was, last week, perhaps somewhat too optimistic about the coming of spring. Pass the Alka-Seltzers……. As usual, further info and links to everything listed can be found on our… Read more
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Police Praises Protestors, But Will They Listen?
Today’s protest at Wiltshire Police headquarters in Devizes over the appointment of PC Cheryl Knight into the rural crime unit despite being photographed riding with fox hunting associations, including the notorious Avon Vale Hunt, went peacefully.…. Devizes Police commended and thanked the protesters, “for the way that they conducted themselves.” Patronising is in the training… Read more
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Song of the Week: Sara Vian
Normally Wednesday, Song of The Week, but I was having one of those Wednesday days, you know the sort, too middley aren’t they, bit gloomy? Couldn’t find a recent single release, whinged about it on Facebook, no one helped, then remembered I had this beauty from Frome folk singer-songwriter Sara Vian, out last week. It’s… Read more
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Wiltshire Council has “A complete disregard for the residents of Devizes,” says Guardian Jonathan Hunter
You’ve got to award Gazette & Herald reporter Jason Hughes the journalism medal of bravery this week, for his dissemination on head of the Devizes Guardians, Jonathan Hunter’s mien concerning the tardiness of communication by Wiltshire Council over the current state of our roads! The headline read “Devizes potholes cause misery for motorists, councillor claims.”… Read more
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