Drivel From Devizes: Dateline – Sunday
17th September 2017
Here is our weekly round-up of events from Devizes:
1. Apparently
it was the first day of the new school term for many children this week. Apart from the buses running different schedules,
traffic being completely gridlocked morning and evening and the sweetie shops
becoming effective no-go areas, there was hardly any difference to normal
life.
2. Scientists
in D-Town stood and applauded to mark the end of the 20-year-long Cassini
Trolley Probe, as the much-travelled supermarket wheeled container finally ran
out of power and self-destructed as it entered the outer rings of
Trowbridge. The Probe had, in its long
life-time, been wheeled within a few hundred yards of Morrisons in The Vize,
Sainsburys in Calne and, in a daring manoeuvre, right past the front door of Waitrose
in Melksham. Data has been gathered that
will help shoppers for decades to come and, perhaps, one answer the great
mystery of the BOGOF cycle. The Mission
Director said that now Cassini had completed its journey, it was only right
that it should end up in a part of Wiltshire with no atmosphere.
3.
For
details of these and all other Devizes stories, don’t forget to listen to local
radio station D-Town F-Off.
Copyright
Andy Fawthrop 2017
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