And they have both reporting that business is booming - outside Wiltshire. Dairy farmers Chrissie and Mat Crossman have hit on a winner. Their milk and milkshake vending machine outside the village shop in All Cannings is doing such a good trade that they are expanding. We came her to take over the farm three years ago, said Chrissie. We had been thinking about the vending machine for some time, as it is a big investment, because we also needed to buy processing equipment to pasteurise the milk. But we are delighted with how popular it is. People come from all over Pewsey Vale, Devizes and Marlborough.
Melanie Piper with Jodie, Mark and Lisa Brindley at the Little Lunch Box Volunteer groups in Pewsey have joined forces to make sure everyone in need can get a turkey dinner this Christmas There were fears of a turkey shortage after one supplier sent all its birds to another group - leaving a shortfall for thirty three people on the books of the Pewsey Community Coronavirus Assistance group. But the team who usually do the annual cook up at Bouverie Hall saved the day, having collected enough donated cash to buy enough turkey for everyone. In return, the PCCA set up this year during lockdown, will now drive and deliver the meals - cooked by the team of people behind the Bouverie Hall festive lunch.
A BOATING couple who have spent a decade travelling through Asia have returned home to Somerset and Wiltshire to capture the changing moods of the Kennet & Avon Canal through the seasons. Authors Sebastien and Louise Tickner have captured exclusively on film an intimate portrait of the boating community at the western end of the canal. It spans the open vistas of the Pewsey Vale to the wooded hills of the Limpley Stoke Valley, observing a community that is quite unlike any other. Louise said: “United by a stretch of water that shapes a communal identity, people of diverse ages and backgrounds have been drawn to a way of life by the beauty and the freedom that it has to offer.