Tony sent me this picture from somewhere in Abingdon.
I took a picture of this replacement dog bin. It is on Mill Road in Abingdon. The red bin has replaced the original green bin.
I also took a picture of a dog bag hanging on a fence post, but then thought nobody wants to see that. Instead let me thank all the wonderful dog walkers who dispose of dog poo correctly. Gone are the bad old days.
The majority of businesses in Abingdon Town Centre have reopened since the lockdown.
Three Greene King pubs remain closed. Hearsay, on facebook, has it that new tenants will be managing them.
The blinds are down at the Black Swan. A full skip at the back shows there is work going on inside.
The blinds are down at the Punchbowl, although I saw lights inside
At the Broad Face there is not even the ghost of a hanged man in the dark inside.
A few shops remain closed. They include the large clothing shop, Peacocks, and the travel agents, Tui. Two charity shops, Oxfam and Sue Ryder, remain closed. Their risk assessments may well say that their elderly volunteers are still too vulnerable.
The Lounge Cafe has a notice saying they will reopen at the end of July.
New Government rules requiring customers to wear face coverings in shops came into effect today – 24th July. Mostly Books, and some other shops had reminders in their windows. The gov.uk webpage has the full details.
From about 30% of people wearing face coverings in shops yesterday in Abingdon it looked like everybody had one today, and many people were not taking them off between shops, or were leaving them dangling round their necks.
If you cough (or breath out) and have Covid-19 and are asymptomatic, the face covering protects others.
The covering should also provide some protection from Coronavirus in the air, but anybody wearing it round their neck can contaminate the inside of the covering.
I saw Paul Gustafson in town today. His free children’s reading book Eggberts Adventures Delivering the Mail is available on the Royal Mail’s educational site Teacher’s post.
There are also activities to download on the revamped eggbertsadventures.com website. Paul hopes they will be useful during the summer holidays.
Paul is well know in Abingdon as a teacher (known as Mr G), campaigner, angler, and environmentalist. He brought the World Egg and Spoon Championship to Abingdon in 2017.
Here is a short extract of Paul reading Eggbert’s Adventures … .