Sunday evening’s sunset was joined by a rainbow
that arched over St Helen’s Church.
Beyond Long Alley almshouses, the clouds glowered like bonfire smoke.
Rain splattered West St Helen Street.
Weird red rainbow sky
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Mayor of Ock Street 2022
On the day the Mayor Of Ock Street was elected, the outgoing Mayor, Harry, gave a lesson about Morris Dancing to some school-age children. He explained that the man beside him was the fool – Roger.
Richard was holding the horns, and Dave played the music.
The lead dancer, Rob, shouted the calls so the other dancers could follow the steps. They then did a dance.
Pam & Alick keep the Coopers Tavern down Coopers Lane. After the dance, Pam and Alick supplied beer from Loose Cannon and a local home brew called Mayor Makers Ale, brewed by Colin for the occasion.
The Morris Dancers then went to the Brewery Tap, where Stuart welcomed Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, and announced the result for the 2022 election of the Mayor of Ock Street. Stuart was joined by the two previous Mayors of Abingdon, Cheryl and Charlie, who helped count the votes.
Richard got 74 votes. Harry got 82 votes. Harry was duly re-elected as Mayor of Ock Street for the coming year.
Harry was chaired by the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers along Ock Street and back again.
(Thank you to Lesley for the pictures, and Colin for the Mayor Makers brew.
Hot day for Shire Horses through Abingdon
A traffic survey is happening in Abingdon town centre with cables attached to boxes across the road. They won’t detect a 2 HP cart that drove through Abingdon from Cardiff to London – part of a charity drive. See https://www.peoplesfundraising.com/fundraising/shirehorses2022.
Daniel was in town and made a video showing the horses having a much-needed drink of water https://youtu.be/2lVqn3UYnhU on their way to London
They then set off again on what was a hot day.
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Marmalade sandwiches with hats
On BBC1 TV, we saw the Queen having tea with Paddington Bear. I knew that Paddington kept a stash of marmalade sandwiches under his hat but was surprised when the Queen got marmalade sandwiches out of her handbag. Since then, crochet of The Queen and Paddington and corgi has appeared on the post box on Abingdon Market Place.
Michael emailed me a picture of Queen Victoria with a hat. 
The Mother and Child statue in Abingdon also has a hat.
Do the hats hide marmalade sandwiches, or do they have another purpose?