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inWok-033_25-Oct-08 by: MikeTheBee Oct 25, 2008 Welcome to Indigo Whisky Zero Three Three for the 25 October 2008 I am your host mikethebee MUSIC: Fireworks (Start of) by Podsafe Music Network - Vanessa Peters and Ice Cream On Mondays Well, the clocks go back tonight, and so those coming morns will be lighter and the thus the evenings will be darker. Either way the changing of the clocks will not hide the fact that the days continue to shorten until December. The 11th of the 11th brings Remembrance Day and the Poppy Appeal was launched this week. Wokingham is now well into Autumn and Winter beckons. Chilly morns with mist and coolness broken only by the shallow warmth of sunbeams from that sun that is getting lower in the sky each following day. The traditional British Guy Fawkes celebrations are mixing in with that US import Halloween, being a favourite of the retail trade as, apart from fireworks, the traditional Guy Fawkes doesn't give many selling opportunities. Guy Fawkes - Wikipedia being a firework festival to commemorate the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 to blow up the British parliament. Before the uptake of Halloween, kids used to make a 'guy' with old clothes and newspaper for stuffing, take their artistic or otherwise creation to a street corner to collect donations toward the fireworks and lemonade for Nov 5th. Coming up next week we have the Wokingham Cantley Firework Event. Find details via http://inWokingham.com. And http://wokingham.gov.uk have a full listing of local displays downloadable as a pdf format file. With the US election so much in the news, more of that later, WBC tell us that many seem disinclined to register for the English elections, Wokingham Election Wokingham Borough Council - Coronation ward by-election Thursday 13 November 2008 Wokingham Borough Council - New bus services - from Monday 27 October 2008 Though it seems there will still be no buses after 6pm or on Sundays, what chance of gettiing peeps out of there cars? Wokingham Mobile Speed Signs I mentioned that the Flower Corner shop in Broad Street had moved along the road to smaller premises, and the vacated site has been redeveloped internally and has re-opened as a Zizzi eatery. Pizza, pasta and other Italian is the core menu. They are part of the ASK chain of eateries. An interesting feature that has provided extra space and is similar to Pizza Express along the road is the covering of the old garden area at the rear with a large conservatory. The only thing I found about the Pizza Express conservatory is that that glass acts as a sound panel, reflecting and bouncing sound around, making it anything but a calm, quiet place for a get-together, although for lively stag or hen parties, (in the gender sense, rather than the wedding sense) the buzz it creates is enlivening, if such enlivening is ever needed. I'll be interested to hear how diners at Zizzi enjoy this new place, I have seen comments about 'not another Italian' but it is looking very popular so far, though maybe this is just the “buzz of the new”. Their website is here Welcome to Zizzi, but it does need Flash installed on you browser (why do they do that) anyway you can find a pic of the menu here Zizzi Menus if you don't have or want Flash, or are browsing with a iPhone or iTouch that doesn't support Flash. Talking of buzz and politics, an old story has come back into the spotlight, not too much of a surprise when so many are poking around in so many corners. Barak (barark) Obama was the focus of a story In January this year the English Newspaper The Daily Mirror printed a story titled: Barrack's British background - mirror.co.uk in July the story developed, with the Wokingham Times, part of the Guardian Media group reporting that Al Jezerra filmed a guide to walking in the footsteps. Al Jazeera TV puts spotlight on Wokingham over Barack - News - getwokingham - The Wokingham Times And then this week I get a call from a journalist in Canada asking for information about any escorted tours of “walking in the steps of “ I had say I don't know of one, but if any listener does know of one, or plans to start one themselves, then please let me know. The US election has become a real world-wide phenomena and although many in Wokingham say “what has it to do with us”, but for many there are wild diversions and this is one. From the PMN at http://mevio.com , a band from NYNY with a track in WOMAD world music style. Podsafe Music Network - Manze Dayila & The Nago Nation CD Baby: MANZE DAYILA & THE NAGO NATION: Solé If you have news, info, pics or pointers inWokingham now has a drop.io dropping place. To drop stuff there you'll need a password and sign in as a guest, the password is, as of now, “stuffforinwokingham” spell it out as one word.

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