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Is it Possible to Live Rurally and be Impartial towards Blood Sports?
My thought for the day, as I’ve permission to republish an article by the Hunts Sabs Association, suggesting with relevant and shocking examples, Wiltshire Police are lacking in pursuing these rural crimes. I will direct your attention to the piece, but figure I’d attempt my own spin, else what’s the point in owning a blog… Read more
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If Devizes to Westminster Race is Under Threat from Parking Fees, What About Other Events?
Hats tipped to Geoff of our beloved Gazelle & Herod, reporting on a looming row between Devizes Town Council and Wiltshire Council over changes to free car parking which could pose a threat to the historic Devizes to Westminster canoe race. Yet I ask, where will this end, what about the county’s numerous other events,… Read more
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Update on the Crammer
Devizes Town Council announced the result of an assessment by the Environment Agency yesterday, following last week’s outbreak of pollution in Crammar, a spillage from a van fire on the road aside it. Their advise was simply that a sheen “on the surface of the water usually looks worse than it is and although unsightly… Read more
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REVIEW – Soft Machine @ LSBC, Devizes – Saturday 19th March 2022
Raising The Bar Andy Fawthrop Things are really gearing up on the music scene again, and Long Street Blues Club has a full programme over the next few months. It’s such a pleasure to attend the Con Club in Long Street, when the atmosphere is so great, and the crowd are so supportive & enthusiastic. … Read more
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Swings and Roundabouts; Hope for Dilapidated Playgrounds in the Devizes Area?
A lengthy but worthwhile report on the state of our playparks and those intending to do something about it…. August 3rd 2019, and I’d had enough of marching to parish council meetings, emailing Wiltshire Council and talking to brick walls, unsure if I did the latter, but it certainly felt like it. So, I published… Read more
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On The Road With Talk in Code!
You know that millennial movie, Almost Famous, set mid-seventies, where Rolling Stone Magazine mistake a nerdy teenager for a music journalist and send him on the road with an outrageous prog-rock band? It was nothing like that. Neither did it resemble 200 Motels, where a man dressed as a vacuum cleaner convinces you Ringo Starr… Read more
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