Drivel From Devizes: Dateline – Sunday 21st July 2019
Here is our weekly
round-up of events from D-Town:
1.
Celebrations have continued around the town throughout
the week to mark the 50th anniversary of the mission to send an
exploratory probe to a far-distant place, an arid landscape, devoid of
life-giving oxygen, turned away from the Sun, and having absolutely no
atmosphere. The mission was carried out
by three brave men in a modified milk-float, on a return journey that lasted
for several days through a vast empty void.
Yet today we take TrowVegas almost for granted. We forget that, back in those days in the
1960s, it was a total alien and misunderstood place. Nowadays people think nothing of getting on
the 49 bus route, abusing the driver, and trying to avoid paying the fare. Happy days.
2.
And in a remarkable finish to last week-end’s North
Wiltshire Cricket (Germolene League South) one-day cup competition, The Vize
finally won something at this amazing sport. Needing 127 runs off the last
over, and with the last two batsmen at the crease, it looked as if The Vize
would be disappointed yet again. But by
some miracle of six-hitting, several mis-fields, 93 over-throws, one leg-bye
and a partridge in a pear tree, the town finally won a trophy. No real sports fans were affected by this
piece of sporting history.
Copyright Andy Fawthrop 2019
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