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Healthy Abingdon – Abingdon Healthfest 2022

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The Abingdon Healthfest returned for a second year. The Chair of Healthy Abingdon, David Butterworth, can be seen here with the Mayor of Abingdon, Cllr Andy Foulsham. Stalls included community groups and community services.

There were about twenty stalls. Here are a few…

People from the NHS were taking people’s blood pressure, helping to identify people with high pressure, and giving advice. The Abingdon Surgery had a stall nearby. The surgery has a self-use blood pressure monitor that prints out your pressure, and if necessary, you can pass the information on to your medical notes.

The Abingdon Carousel Family Centre provides a centre from which all kinds of family services can operate in South Abingdon.

The Blue Sky Eco Cafe are a community café that serves vegetarian and vegan recipes.

The Abingdon 5 km park run is every Saturday. They want to encourage people to walk the 5km if they do not feel able to run

Ex-Mayor Duncan Brown was there with his book ‘Get Over Indulgence’. He was not selling the book, but anybody who contributed to the Mayor’s Charities at the stall got a copy of the book. Those charities are:
* The Archway Foundation (serves those in our community who are hurt by loneliness)
* Yellow Submarine (helps young people with learning disabilities and autism live life to the full.)

Friends of Abbey Meadow Outdoor Pool fought to save the pool and campaign for the pool. It is the end of the season tomorrow.

Evening Walk by the Thames

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To walk down to St Helen’s Wharf and gaze at the River Thames is a pleasure. This evening I stood there for some time and then walked beside the river.

The houses were floating like an island in the sky at Abingdon Marina.

At Long Alley Almshouses, electric light fanned through gravestones.

My Superpower

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The first of the month is the day for a “theme day”, and the September 2022 theme is “My Superpower.” It is difficult to choose. But in the end, I have gone for the power to disappear. Click HERE to see more superpowers from around the world.

What’s “Your Superpower”?

St Ethelwold’s Garden at the end of August

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St Ethelwold’s garden is open for all to find peace and inspiration. A display of pictures, inside St Ethelwold’s House, shows the garden over the last six decades.

Two volunteer gardeners were working today. In 2021, the gardeners introduced an irrigation system – more efficient than hosepipes – that other gardeners could copy.

Many flowers are blooming, making the garden popular with insects, particularly bumble bees and honey bees.

There are also flowers to feed butterflies.

There is an area for growing fruit and vegetables.

As you leave, you can take produce and seeds and magazines and leave a money donation. Cooking and eating apples are abundant at the end of August.