Ready for our say at Pewsey!

Wootton Rivers to Pewsey, Kennet & Avon Canal, 1 lock 2 or so miles

I enjoyed Malborough yesterday, a lovely market town it is, and there was plenty of time to have a good ‘ol look around.  The bus leaves just after 10.15 in the morning from outside the pub in Wootton Rivers and comes back at about 1pm.. such a sleepy village there is only that bus during the day, although I think a bus comes back about 5 in the afternoon. 

It was great to chat to a young local lad who is the main thatcher for this area.. I asked him if it was ‘in the family’ all the thatching.. “Nope, I was a dunce at school, got no qualifications.. just wanted my freedom really.  Got a job in a factory, didn’t like it and went to work for a thatcher… Now I do most of the thatching around Malborough”.. In fact he went on to tell me that he has an full order book, but is taking orders now for the autumn of 2009!!

He made me smile as I went to board the bus.. says I to him “Well good luck to you and your family.. got any kids?”  “Nah” says he, “We are enjoying practicing at the moment!”  Ha!

I do love to chat to locals when I can.. not in the towns, but in the villages.. the English Village always seems to have time to chat to strangers who want to know about their communities.

Last night was good.. Chas and Ann of NB Moore2Life came over and we had dinner and a few bevvies.. and a game of Mindtrap.. that was a laugh too, and we didn’t get to bed till gone midnight.. but up bright and early this morning to pull the pins and move down to Pewsey to collect Vic’s birthday cards from the family and to get near to our weekend destination to block the canal at Pewsey in protest at the DEFRA cuts, see the Save Our Waterways Site, and also sign the petition online.. we need all the support we can get.. no waterways, no blogs!!

A bit of a walk to the Post Office it is from the bridge just short of Pewsey… well we can get the dot in the sky for the tele from here.. can’t get it at Pewsey because of the trees.. Eastenders was an hour long ‘must watch’ for Vic tonight, apparently that Pauline Fowler is about to die… so he watched that.. “She isn’t dead yet” he proclaimed after it finished!  I was busying myself doing posters to stick on the windows for tomorrows protest.. “”TREASURERY REFUSES TO COME UP WITH THE MONEY TO RESCUE DEFRA’S MISTAKES” and the like!

Sorry no pics tonight it was raining today… still is too!