Bulletin From Bromham: Dateline
– Sunday 1st September 2013
Here is our weekly round-up of events from Bromham:
1.
Dave Wentwrong, leader of the Field Land-Owners
Party (FLOP) and Chairman of the Parish Council, suffered an ignominious
failure on Thursday night when one of his own councillors (that Brenda from the
far end of the village) failed to hear the call for a crucial vote in the
Council chamber on whether Bromham should deploy ground forces in its
continuing battle with the Seend separatists.
Brenda, who had her hearing-aid switched off at the time, claimed that
she would have voted against in any case.
The vote may have serious repercussions for Bromham as a future power in
the County. It is now thought that the Upper
Swansdyke (US) council may choose to strike against Seend without waiting for a
formal Trowbridge mandate.
2.
Friday
in Bromham marked the 50th anniversary of the famous “I have a beetroot”
speech by the Reverend Martin Piglet Bling in 1963 in front of the Bromham War
Memorial. Tens of beetroot-pickers
gathered, together with their carrot-picking brothers, to commemorate the
anniversary. The famous words: “I have a dream that one day among the red hills
of Bromham, former beetroot pickers will sit down with non-beetroot pickers,
and will be judged not by the colour of their picking fingers, but by the
content of their vegetable boxes. I have
a dream.”
3.
For
details of these and all other Bromham stories, don’t forget to listen to local
radio station Carrot FM.
Copyright
Andy Fawthrop 2013
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