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A Halloween Open Mic in a Cellar
With assorted images kindly nicked from: Alan Jones, Richard Benham and Deborah Barnett Felt a tap on my shoulder in the Cellar Bar of the Bear Hotel last night, an eerie witch called Tess taciturnly offered sweets from a variety Halloween basket. If it was just a kind gesture, I also saw it symbolic of… Read more
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FREE Halloween eBook!
Halloween, Mwhahahaha! If you’re not venturing out tonight, armed with a sugared-up face-painted youngster, lucky you! Perhaps you’d like to lounge on the sofa with a scary story. Here’s one I wrote, back when I wrote stories and Devizine didn’t occupy my every waking minute! Wrote in 2016, only a novelette size, but creepy enough.… Read more
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Our Sunday Live Music Stroll Around Devizes, Relay!
Andy’s usual Sunday stroll around Devizes, hunting live music, took a different turn this weekend, as I interfered! In order to save time, treat this article as a roundup of all that happened to us both; a kind of music relay race! Andy spent the early afternoon down our trusty Southgate, I met up with… Read more
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PREVIEW: White Horse Opera’s production of Bizet’s Carmen @ Lavington School – Wednesday 30th October, Friday 1st November and Saturday 2nd November 2019
This Opera Is For You! Andy Fawthrop Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet, based on an original story by Prosper Merimee, first performed in 1875. It is written in the genre of opéra comique, with musical numbers separated by dialogue, and it shocked its early audiences with its… Read more
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Little Eco, Big Step in the Right Direction
Yesterday spent wisely, at the wonderful Little Eco; Devizes first zero-waste shop….. Shopping bags are in the boot, but when I’m on my own I forget. Damn, buy another bag, it’s just one after all. Last supermarket visit I figured no, as I had my daughter’s help; I left her to scan the items… Read more
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Daydreaming of Closing the Line
After a hushed couple of months for Daydream Runaways, they return with a topical smash single, Closing the Line…… I observed in awe the multitude, at least for Devizes, squeezed between the Town Hall and Vinyl Realm. Ah, what with the perpetual drizzling, wish it could be summer again; street festival time. The highlight for… Read more
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