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  • Julia’s House Gameathon is Back!

    Now, I know some gamers who’ll quite willingly play videogames until the cows come home, and if there was a videogame where the objective was to herd cows back into their cattle shed, they’d probably play for longer, just to see what happens in level two! Myself, I’m impartial. My son teaches me the complexities Read more

  • Worsley Training Brings First Aid Course to Devizes Corn Exchange

    Worsley Training Brings First Aid Course to Devizes Corn Exchange

    The last first aid course I attended was quite some time ago, in plain old Wotton Bassett prior to the added Royal in their name, that’s how long ago it was. But did I learn anything from it, and do I remember any of it? Well, yeah, took some of it in, but, you know, Read more

  • Best Breakfast in Swindon?

    Best Breakfast in Swindon?

    So, on my Jack Jones I’ve time to kill this morning in that great western railway  megatropolis (least it is to us bumpkins, hanging onto a thread of Tory promise a train might one day stop in our backwaters.) While I’m familiar with an antique Swindon of twenty-five years gone, and pockets of it remain Read more

  • Floating Record Shop Moored on Kennet & Avon

    Floating Record Shop Moored on Kennet & Avon

    Jiggin’ in thar riggin’! Ahoy vinyl-buyin’ landlubbers, a record shop has been sighted floatin’ off arh local shores ‘n be due t’ dock along th’ Kennet & Avon canal o’er th’ next few weeks, ye hath been warned! Argh, shiver me timbers, I did say a record shop, fer Th’ Record Deck be such, jus’ Read more

  • Will Lawton and the Alchemists’ Live Stream Album Launch

    Will Lawton and the Alchemists’ Live Stream Album Launch

    While Andy has fondly mentioned the Malmesbury combo of frontman and pianist Will Lawton and drummer Weasel Howlett a few times in the past here, I’m still yet to witness them live. Such is the restrictions of today, could be a while. Still, both are the backbone of Will Lawton and the Alchemists, formed in Read more

  • A Thrashing Surprise, with Typhoidmary’s Death Trans

    A Thrashing Surprise, with Typhoidmary’s Death Trans

    See, I like an ordinary cuppa like the next Englishman, but there’s lots of varieties of tea, some I’m impartial about, others I outright don’t like. To say it “isn’t my cup of tea” doesn’t mean it definitely tastes like shit, to others it might be the best thing they’ve drunk. It’s far harder to Read more