Drivel From Devizes: Dateline – Sunday 6th September 2020
Here is our weekly
round-up of events from D-Town:
1. Further
quarantine restrictions have been announced by the Town Council in a bid to
control the spread of Covid. Passengers
arriving on the 49 bus from Swindon will be required to self-isolate for 14
days, but only those passengers who got on at Avebury or Beckhampton, or who
have an “L” in their name, or who are pregnant, or under the age 45, or who
have eaten pasta in the last 72 hours, or who live in Potterne, but not in
Rowde or Poulshot. People arriving on
the 33 from Chippenham (excluding X33 services every other Tuesday) must also
isolate, but there will be exemptions for those boarding at Bromham or St Edith’s
Marsh, but not if they intend going for a curry, or if they live in Broadleas
or Pans Lane areas. A spokesperson for
the Council said that these measures were now extremely simple, clear and
straightforward.
2. And,
in a dramatic climb-down, turn-around, u-turn and change of policy, the DBC
(D-Town Broadcasting Corporation) has decided that this year’s C*******s carols
will be broadcast over the public address systems in the streets with all the
words included, afterre previously saying it would be a tunes-only affair. Or not.
Perhaps. Maybe. Well, nobody knows half the words anyway, do
they? But, in another controversial
move, revellers outside pubs and clubs, tipping out into the streets at 1am,
will be asked not to sing & shout too loudly, but rather to hum the words (that
they don’t even know) very quietly.
Copyright Andy Fawthrop 2020
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