Make Music Day UK is an annual celebration of music-making that takes place in communities across the world on the 21st of June. That includes Abingdon.

At St Ethelwolds House people gathered in the garden for the tea and cakes and also for the music

where local musicians came together to play and improvise. Anybody could join in or make a request.

Later in the day at the Loose Canon brewery, more local groups played. The Ock Street Band,

The sepia tone folk collective,

and Struggles End.

The Cannon Wagon was outside with Bridge Burgers, Pulled Pork Burgers, and Cannonball Spicy Veggie Burgers.

Thankyou to Aileen for this information …

Clare Mackintosh in conversation
Tuesday 5th March, St Nicolas’ Church, 6.30pm

Join us as we welcome Clare Mackintosh to discuss her new book, I Promise It Won’t Always Hurt Like This: 18 Assurances on Grief. This event is supported by Child Bereavement UK.

Tickets £10 / £20 with book (RRP £18.99)

Clare Balding book signing
Tuesday 12th March, Mostly Books, from 4pm

Come to Mostly Books to meet author and broadcaster Clare Balding! She’ll be signing copies of her new children’s book, Animal All-Stars.

Tickets £10 (including a copy of the book, RRP £10.99)

Alice Winn in conversation
Friday 22nd March, St Nicolas’ Church, 6.30pm

Join us as we welcome Alice Winn to celebrate the paperback publication of her acclaimed debut novel, In Memoriam, in one of only four UK events.

Tickets £10 / £15 with book (RRP £9.99)

By five past five, it was already getting dark, thanks to the clocks being set forward by an hour last night. Most of our timing devices are computerised and change automatically these days, but the church clock still needs to be wound manually.

Today, the sun was up between 6:53 a.m. and 4:43 p.m. (9 hours, 50 minutes).

Yesterday it was up from 7:51 a.m. and 5:45 p.m. (9 hours and 54 minutes).

We are losing about 3.4 minutes of sunlight a day.

More interesting data about the sun is at https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/oxford?month=10.

David Pope handed over Abingdon Rotary Club to the new fun President Debs Axtell, at a meeting on 28th June in The King’s Head and Bell. David said they also inducted a new member into the club, and they are looking forwards to an exciting new Rotary year in Abingdon!