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  • Planks Dairies Introduces Locally Sourced Organic Dairy Range

    Planks Dairies Introduces Locally Sourced Organic Dairy Range

    Now, I know what you’re asking; aren’t you in someway affiliated with Planks’ Dairies, in which case isn’t this a shameless advertorial? Yes, and no, respectively. The historical truth behind the former is next-door neighbours would knock at my door when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, to return our half-filled milk bottles, which I Read more

  • Full Steam Ahead for The Collected Grimm Tales at The Wharf Theatre

    Despite the gloomy pushback to the 19th July for step four of the roadmap to reopen venues, government announced plans to pilot test live theatrical performances with increased capacities, as it has already done for music festivals and sports events. While this will delight larger city venues, our Wharf Theatre in Devizes must continue with Read more

  • Fiesty Fish will be at a’Becketts Vineyard on Saturday

    Fiesty Fish will be at a’Becketts Vineyard on Saturday

    I don’t know where the ingenious pub name The Chocolate Poodle came from, or why it had to sadly close, but it always sounds like it should be the name of an East End pub to me, so, for fun, here’s a preview today written in cockney rhyming slang, (although there will be no jellied Read more

  • Lions, be on the Green!

    Lions, be on the Green!

    Though for trade description purposes, there were no actual lions on the Green, (not this time, it’s not 1980) if I had to sum up The Lions on the Green in a word today it would be; blooming marvellous, which I know is two words, but allow me thus, the heat is getting to me. Read more

  • Thirty Years a Raver: Part 5: The Final Frontier

    Thirty Years a Raver: Part 5: The Final Frontier

    “If you’re hanging on to a rising balloon, you’re presented with a difficult decision – let go before it’s too late or hang on and keep getting higher, posing the question: how long can you keep a grip on the rope? They’re selling hippie wigs in Woolworth’s, man. The greatest decade in the history of Read more

  • Liddington Hill Celtic Punk!

    Liddington Hill Celtic Punk!

    Sometimes, and quite a number of times I might add, nothing fits the bill quite like a bout of pounding bibulous Celtic punk, by a band with a girl donning a cow’s head as a mascot. But how far would you expect to trek to find such a group of misfits, Wales, Ireland? Suggested in Read more