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Free Warm Welcoming Safe Places

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Warm Welcome Places
The current cost of living crisis, particularly the increase in heating costs, has led to many people struggling to heat their homes. This is often compounded by loneliness and isolation.

That’s why The Church in Abingdon has created five Warm Spaces across Abingdon where anyone can go to heat up, have a warm drink and enjoy a little company. It goes on until the end of March (2023).
Warm Welcome Places
Mondays
11 am – 4 pm, from 9 January 2023
St Edmund’s Catholic Church, 1 Oxford Road – Parish Centre (01235 847804)
Hot lunch, refreshments, conversation, games

Tuesdays
1-4 pm, from 10 January 2023
Peachcroft Christian Centre, Lindsay Drive (01235 530227)
Warm drinks, comfy chairs, quiet workspace

Wednesdays
12 -2 pm (The Sanctuary)
Abingdon Salvation Army, 12 West St Helen’s St (01235 523586)
Tea, coffee, Wi-fi, conversation, games

Thursdays
12.30-4.30 pm, from 5 January 2023
Christ Church, Northcourt Road, The Barn (01235 539172)
Hot drinks/soup, conversation

Fridays
2-4.30 pm
Abingdon Baptist Church, 35 Ock Street (01235 530080)
Tea. Coffee, squash, biscuits, conversation

3957 warm welcome places in the UK are registered at https://www.warmwelcome.uk/, including Abingdon Library and One Planet Abingdon (under the museum).

Exhibition – planes trains and automobiles

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The latest exhibition at Abingdon Museum features trains that once ran on the Abingdon branch line,
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
planes that flew from RAF Abingdon,
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
and automobiles made at the Abingdon MG works. The exhibition has interesting display boards and a series of films about the different transports. I have not seen them all yet but found the film about the closure of the branch line very good.

The exhibition is from 7th January to 26th March 2023 on the museum’s first floor, up 37 steps. Find out more at https://www.abingdon.gov.uk/event/exhibition-planes-trains-automobiles-7-01-to-26-03-2023

Storm overflow interactive map

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Storm overflow interactive map
To stop streets and houses from flooding, storm overflows act as relief valves and allow extra wastewater from drains and sewers to flow untreated into rivers. A new storm overflow interactive map has been produced by Thames Water. The map can be viewed at https://www.thameswater.co.uk/edm-map, and this evening at 21:00, the map showed that storm overflow was happening upstream and downstream from Abingdon.
Storm overflow interactive map
I think the site monitored nearest to Abingdon is the one pictured near the Abingdon treatment works and was not discharging.

Thanks to Newcomer for letting me know about this from an article he read in the Guardian at https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/05/interactive-map-shows-thames-water-raw-sewage-discharges-in-england-rivers.

Now for eleven months without

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Twelfth Night
At Preston Road Community Centre, we had three Christmas trees, one in the large hall, one in the hallway and one in the lounge. There were also foil ceiling decorations in three of the rooms.
Twelfth Night
Today was the time to take them all down and store them away. As I wound the long string of lights, I wondered about leaving instructions for unwinding. One wrong move and they can get into such a tangle.
Twelfth Night
The rooms have returned to a simpler state for the next eleven months.