Search This Blog

Sunday, 1 July 2018

Drivel From Devizes - Dateline Sunday 1st July 2018


Drivel From Devizes: Dateline – Sunday 1st July 2018

Here is our weekly round-up of events from D-Town:

1.   The hot weather continues.  Dogs are baked in locked, hot cars.  Plants and shrubs shrivel in their beds for lack of water.  A hosepipe ban is surely just around the corner.  The feckless walk around with reddened, sun-burnt arms and faces.  The air is laced with the sickening aromas of kerosene, barbecue smoke and burning cheap burgers, as D-Town residents realise that Summer is finally upon us.  Still – the nights are drawing in, and only six months to Christmas.

2.  And citizens of The Vize continue to throng the quaint, old, Grade II-listed drinking establishments of the town to watch further comedy episodes of Ye Olde Worlde Cuppe on timber-framed TVs and to laugh at the fate of teams from Germany, Portugal and Argentina.  Glorying in the knowledge that citizens of those countries now know what it feels like to be English, until at least next Tuesday, the Summer will soon be over.  Despite the offer of free drinks to everyone watching Scotland, Wales and Ireland’s World Cup games, trouble in the town is been remarkably light.


Copyright Andy Fawthrop 2018

No comments: