Drivel From Devizes: Dateline – Sunday 9th May 2021
Here is our weekly round-up of events from D-Town:
1. Diplomatic tensions were at an all-time high mid-week when the Council despatched a pair of armed fishery protection vessels down the K&A canal, through the Caen Hill flight in order to warn off a bloke from The Sham who was fishing without a permit near Martinslade. As it took the boats nearly four hours to negotiate the locks, the errant angler saw them coming and packed up his gear and left before they could reach him. He has been warned, however, not to attempt to land any of his catch in the D-Town fish market.
2. And Thursday saw voters in the borough turn out in their tens. Some of them even bothered to vote. As D-Town has a reputation of being Tory Central, those of a rightist persuasion didn’t do very much campaigning. In fact a soiled nappy, wrapped with a blue ribbon, was elected to one of the Council wards. Whilst bemoaning the fact that the electorate always votes blue, the Labour spokesman was quoted as saying “it could have been worse – at least we don’t have to live in Hartlepool”.
Copyright Andy Fawthrop 2021
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