The Colchester and Ipswich Museums newsletter for May has been published – hurrah! A double hurrah! For any bored (ish) blogger who is pushed for time and can’t quite take it all in. With apologies to our border friends over in Suffolk, balls to Ipswich is the phrase that I think we are looking for. [...]
Honouring at Wivenhoe Park
14th May, 2012
Here’s a Monday morning question for you: What is the Sunny Colch connection between an FT satirical columnist, a Hollywood special effects guru and a Polar explorer? You’d be nowhere near if you were to wager that all three have been drafted in as Management Consultants by our friends from Colchester Borough Council. If you [...]
SPD’s and Sunny Colch
11th May, 2012
The future of the Sunny Colch town centre is up for grabs – what would you like to see? It’s not often that such an open call goes out, but our friends from Colchester Borough Council are about to start thinking about the Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) for the centre of the town. Sounds… um, [...]
Wot No Drought?
11th May, 2012
Nice weather for Sunny Colch ducks around Castle Park. Don’t forget the hosepipe ban, folks…
High Woods Happenings
10th May, 2012
If you go down to the woods today… Better make that High Woods Country Park, Comrades, often the forgotten jewel in the rolling green landscape that encapsulates Sunny Colch. Cripes. With the splendour of Castle Park being plonked right in the centre of the town, it is sometimes easy to forget about the favour and [...]
Pooh Pooh Flags @firstsite
10th May, 2012
We’re flying the flag for dog pooh here at The Chronic – which is an opening sentence that you are unlikely read in any of Her Majesty’s Popular Prints. Pah to pooh! That is the message coming out of St Andrew’s Junior School on the Greenstead. Working alongside our friends from the Golden Goose, the [...]
X-Factor in Sunny Colch
10th May, 2012
Around 200 Colchester hopefuls turned up at Lion Walk early on Thursday morning to audition for the new series of ITV’s The X-Factor. The mobile auditions are touring UK towns and cities throughout April and May, to record, and then possibly select candidates that will then go through to the auditions that will be broadcast [...]
Last Time at Layer Road
9th May, 2012
It’s the sight that will send all U’s fans crying into their blue and white crested beer glasses – nope, not the return of Roy McDonough to Col U [running gag ahoy!] but the end of the beginning with the demolition of Layer Road. Let’s be honest – the old girl has seen better days. [...]
What If… Sunny Colch in Suffolk?
9th May, 2012
This piece was first published on @nickjbarlow’s personal blog. Here’s an interesting bit of local history for you all, going all the way back to when I was born in 1972. This was a year of many interesting events, and also the 1972 Local Government Act which brought about wholesale changes to the way large [...]
Political Poker at the Town Hall
9th May, 2012
Another day in the corridors of power over at the Town Hall, another day of no one actually being in power. Pah. Actually, that’s a little harsh. Six days after the local elections here in Sunny Colch, and we are still waiting for a new administration to be formed. That doesn’t mean that a power [...]