30th May, 2012
To Colchester Town Hall! …on Wednesday evening for the first Cabinet meeting of the new Colchester Borough Council administration. Nice weather for ducks – and we’re not talking about sitting ducks either, oh no, not here, nope… It promised to be an agenda packed with more twists and turns than a walk around the Dutch [...]
30th May, 2012
Here’s the blog post that we always look forward to writing at The Chronic: let’s look forward to the brilliant Colchester CAMRA Real Ale and Cider Festival. Hurrah! With a winter and summer festival firmly in place to cover the thirst quenchers of Sunny Colch, these Beer Festivals in Britain’s Oldest Recorded seem to come [...]
30th May, 2012
Local artist Amy Turnbull celebrated her recent success as the Cuckoo Farm Studios and Colchester Institute Graduate Award Scheme winner with a solo show at The Minories. Perdo was exhibited in the Garden Room gallery, exploring the theme of childhood lost. It all seemed very innocent at first; everyday childhood toys were randomly scattered around [...]
29th May, 2012
One week you’re playing outdoors on the main Tree Stage at the Wivenhoe May Fair, the next and you’re supporting New York hipster Jeffrey Lewis inside at the splendour of the Lakeside Theatre at the University of Essex. Don’t forget the mid-week commitment of an *ahem* intimate kitchen gig a couple of doors away down [...]
29th May, 2012
How are your Jubilee weekend preparations coming along, Colchester? Will you be amongst the bunting bunnies at Castle Park for the Colchester Borough Council Jubilee beacon ceremony, or will you be back at The Twist for the BIG re-opening weekend along Military Road? Or even both? Blimey. But it’s not all about bunting and booze. [...]
29th May, 2012
Colchester24 – it’s the Sunny Colch exhibition that transcends locations. Having already exhibited at the Hollytrees, @firstsite and Colchester Library, the Colchester24 roadshow recently moved into @Slack_Space along Eld Lane. Different location, same idealism in celebrating Britain’s Oldest Recorded on camera, both in past and present form. As a reminder, Colchester24 invited local folk to [...]
28th May, 2012
And so a HUGE @ColchChronic HELLOOOOO! to @Miss_Schmalice, our 1,000th follower on twitter. Of course @Miss_Schmalice is just as welcome as the other 999 of the very kind folk who have stuck with The Chronic during some pretty mad, rambling @yourcolchester Full Council LIVE [oooh] tweeting action. It is to our great surprise that we [...]
28th May, 2012
Crack open the champagne bottle and take up a front row seat in the Grand Jury Room at Colchester Town Hall come Wednesday evening – yep, it’s only the first Cabinet meeting [PDF] of the new administration at Colchester Borough Council. Hurrah! We think. As a reminder, the game of hyperlocal political musical chairs now [...]
28th May, 2012
Bicycle Week is almost upon us – Chapeau! It may have been re-branded over recent years to add in a corporate sponsor, but the bicycle bit (always a bicycle, never an abbreviation…) might have got a little muddled up during a few gear changes, but yeah: Bicycle Week 2012 in Sunny Colch – bring it [...]
28th May, 2012
Psst! Wanna snoop on how many sugars are being taken in the cappuccinos that are being sipped on the lovely lawn of the Love Bistro cafe at The Minories? Which is quite a handful (sentence, not sugars) in itself. The camera never lies, especially so when it is a Camera Obscura, installed right here in [...]
