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  • Todayย Devizes for Europeย launched โ€œSay #YES2ARealDealโ€ campaign.

    Todayย Devizes for Europeย launched โ€œSay #YES2ARealDealโ€ campaign.

    Formerly local remain group Devizes for the EU has moved forward, changing it’s name to Devizes for Europe, and laid plans for action to avoid a no deal. Here’s their details from their press release… Now that the UK has left the European Union, we need to take action to secure our future relations with… Read more

  • Rural Racism; Welcome to BLM in the Stix

    Rural Racism; Welcome to BLM in the Stix

    Could โ€œis Devizes a racist town?โ€ be a clickbait headline?! Iโ€™m not out to infuriate. Ah, thatโ€™s why I didnโ€™t use it. That and, hope this to be only a part of a wider subject incorporating rural racism in a series of reflections for Black History Month. And here we meet an organiser of a… Read more

  • The Instrumental Sounds Of Ruzz Guitarโ€™s Blues Revue, While Washing Up!

    The Instrumental Sounds Of Ruzz Guitarโ€™s Blues Revue, While Washing Up!

    Who says men can’t multitask? I’m washing up and reviewing this forthcoming musical extravaganza….. Ruling in my household, being the better-half does the majority of cooking, I therefore wash-up. And on sporadic occasions I cook, I still do the washing up. I know what youโ€™re thinking; under the thumb, Worrow. I beg to differ, family… Read more

  • Juliaโ€™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, thatโ€™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