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  • SoupChick’s Georgian Feast Got me Contemplating Usage of The Shambles

    SoupChick’s Georgian Feast Got me Contemplating Usage of The Shambles

    Spud-gun is an amusing epithet underutilised as much as the Shambles often is in ol’ Devizes town, in my honest opinion. Spudgun, best describes the far removed from reality councillor who suggested a mezzanine floor is what’s needed to ensure the longevity of The Shambles. Is there even room for a second floor? I gazed… Read more

  • Devizes Food & Drink Festival, Back with a Dollop!

    Devizes Food & Drink Festival, Back with a Dollop!

    Though risky, weatherwise, September seems to be the month The Devizes Food & Drink Festival has settled on, returning again this year on this pleasant Saturday with their grand opening of the food market, and gifting the bustling Devizes Market Place with the beautiful aroma of street food; who am I to resist a stroll… Read more

  • The Best He Could Do at The Time, Joe Hicksโ€™ Debut Album

    The Best He Could Do at The Time, Joe Hicksโ€™ Debut Album

    A little late for the party, as ever, Iโ€™ve been procrastinating, and my computer is equally as listless; failing to save my original words on this. Meanwhile Newbury good guy, but welcomed regular on our circuit, Joe Hicks has been busy with a debut album launched yesterday, worthy of a rewriteโ€ฆโ€ฆ Titled The Best I… Read more

  • Swindon Paint Fest: Live Street Art in October

    Swindon Paint Fest: Live Street Art in October

    Though Ken White’s murals have been seen across Swindon for decades, particularly his Golden Lion at the Whale Bridge roundabout on Fleming Way, contemporary street art in Swindon lives in the shadow of neighbouring city Bristol, where the legend of Banksy is crowned. But all that could be set to change, as the Wiltshire town… Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events 21st-27th September 2022

    Apologies, I missed publishing last weekโ€™s roundup, one thing gets on another and so on and so forth; Iโ€™ve really no excuse, but you know you donโ€™t have to wait for it, itโ€™s all listed on the frequently updated event calendar, where if youโ€™re new here, youโ€™ll find ticket and info links to everything I… Read more

  • I Shuffled in Swindon, and I Liked It!

    I Shuffled in Swindon, and I Liked It!

    Yep, It’s Swindon Shuffle weekend, and so I thought it best to poke my nose in….. Voice recognition they call it, I call it defective verbal dysentery. My precise articulation fails on a number of letters and numbers from my vehicle reg, and I’m wound up. Parking apps; pet hate, so, call a number, it… Read more