Swindonian Blog Posts
Swindon news, views, history and culture
Revolution Performing Arts
I've been meaning to do this post about Revolution Performing Arts for a while now. But y'know how it is. I'm sorry Fi! Fiona Di Silva Adams invited me to attend the show, by Revolution Performing Arts, called Be Your Unique at Swindon's Arts Centre earlier in...
Beat the Street gets Swindon moving!
Between September and November 2019, the popular Beat the Street game returned to Swindon. And a new report shows improvements in activity levels for adults and children across the borough. Beat the Street gets Swindon moving!
No 6: Hop Kettle Pilsner Lager
For this post and this drink we make a return visit to The Eternal Optimist bar on Devizes Rd above Los Gatos.
See also in this series, No 5: Gin & Tonic for more on the Eternal Optimist.
Swindon Folk Club
So Friday 6th December saw me at the Swindon RAFA club in Old Town for a Swindon Folk Club evening.
We Are Swindon: Positive Swindon
It’s so fabulous to meet another Swindon enthusiast. Which is why, the other week, I enjoyed having a good chat with Michelle Jones – the power behind the We are Swindon social media campaign.
A Swindon Wordsmith – George Ewart Hobbs
Well here’s a bit of a novelty, as Graham Carter himself commented. What is? Me attending someone else’s book launch for a change. Rather than them being at mine – info on my own publications here.
For today saw the launch, at Swindon Central library of a new Swindon book by Noel Ponting and Graham Carter: A Swindon Wordsmith: The Life, Times and Works of George Ewart Hobbs.
No 5: Gin & Tonic
I have a confession to make. I loathe gin. And I’m not a fan of tonic either. Which is as bit of a bummer given that every bar in the land is awash with every variety of Mothers’ Ruin you can imagine. And, I daresay, some you can’t. So I can’t tell you how pleased I was when my good chum, Jo Garton, volunteered to take one for the team and write a few lines about her gin experience at Old Town bar, The Eternal Optimist.
STEM with Scoosh
fifteen years ago, and a prospective parent, I moved to Swindon. Back then the view of Swindon around the UK wasn’t what you’d call favourable. Indeed – some might argue it still isn’t. And that, at length, is how STEM with Scoosh came into being.
A Kannada Celebration
Last week I was both surprised and delighted to receive an invitation from Cllr Ravi Venkatesh, Haydon Wick Parish Council, to attend an event he’d organised in Pinehurst. The event’s purpose was something of a literary celebration – in fact a Kannada celebration. Let me explain.
Sharing Swindon’s Story
Over the past year, in a project coordinated by the Mechanics' Institution Trust, thirty-five young Swindonians learnt lots of amazing things about our town. What they learned is on this Sharing Swindon's Story website. The project participants outside Central...
Swindon in 50 more buildings
West Swindon – What the eye doesn’t see
Swindon – A Born Again Swindonian’s Guide
We Are Swindon
