10th May, 2013
Another day, another visit to Sunny Colch by the Deputy Prime Minister. And so why does the Leader of the LibDems keep on paying us a visit? His trip to the Busy Bees Nursery on the Severalls Industrial Estate comes just six weeks since his last Essex excursion to Kent Blaxill with Sir Bob. Ah [...]
8th May, 2013
Image: Keith Albarn. Blimey – it’s all happening at The Minories at the top / foot end of the High Street, depending on your own particular psychogeogrpahic orientation. The new season of artistic events has been published. A little highbrow, bits of the mainstream and even a talk of risk aversion. Which is possibly a [...]
7th May, 2013
At a loose end later this evening? You could do a lot worse than make the short trip over to the LOVELY Lakeside Theatre up at the University for a bit of Parkway Dreams. The touring production from the ACE Eastern Angles theatre is touching down in Sunny Colch for one evening only. It has [...]
6th May, 2013
We’re still sniffing around Sunny Colch to see if there are any signs that localism is alive and well. We may have just found a positive response over in Myland – a lexicology where one would hope true localism can exist, if indeed it can exist anywhere. Anyway – enough of the linguistics crap. What [...]
5th May, 2013
We blogged back in February how the University of Essex Metal Society is keen to build a base up on campus. MetSoc [YEAH] has a strong history of being one of the most popular student societies at Wivenhoe Park, but recent support has faded like a poor piece of stonewash denim. A sampling of the [...]
3rd May, 2013
Only one seat changed hands in Colchester as residents went to the polls on Thursday to vote in the Essex County Council local elections. Dave Harris won the Maypole division for Labour, taking it away from Lyn Barton of the LibDems. UKIP had a strong showing throughout Colchester, finishing second in six divisions, and third [...]
2nd May, 2013
The Red Lion Hotel has witnessed many eye-opening sights over the past 500 years. The Grade 1 listed building has seen off Civil War rebellion, Victorian civic destruction and probably Sir Bob. But now the Red Lion is set for something slightly off the historic radar with an evening of Burlesque coming to the High [...]
1st May, 2013
And so how do you get around the administrative dilemma of staging a fair and proper AGM, yet still draw in the masses as if it were the Last Show in Town? Well… If you are the lovely folk of the East of England Co-operative Society than you rather cleverly hold a Family Fun Day [...]
29th April, 2013
And so what can we learn from Ben Locker’s finely worded FoI request to our friends from Colchester Borough Council all about the iConnect [URGH] portal? That’s assuming of course that you have actually heard of iConnect, CBC’s online delivery [URGH, URGH] of localgov services. We certainly hadn’t. Interpreting FoI’s is notoriously tricky. The poor [...]
28th April, 2013
HONK! It’s time for firstsite Late VI. Or is it VII? We’ve sorta lost count on the number of times that each new season at the Golden Goose is greeted with late night frolicking around the sloping walls of the Cultural Quarter. Friday 3rd May is when firstsite will be staying up late to celebrate [...]
