If only the swan uppers would come by now. A time when swans were more numerous and Canada Geese less …

I have put the blog on autopilot for a few days – in order to take an enforced rest … The doctor suggests I may be suffering from what he calls ‘Bloggermania‘. It is becoming a fairly common condition and he prescribes no blogging for a few days so I get a sense of perspective. But as I could not give it up completely, I have secretly pre posted a few old Abingdon postcards and things…

The road and the cycle path looking north.

The path down from Larkmead School with flowers in tribute after the cycle accident 4 weeks ago.

Heading South.

Thanks to Carl for this picture of the pigeons spikes before they were installed above a couple of shops on the High Street

and this of the marked van. Unmarked vans are available.

It reminds me of one of my wife’s collage / paintings during the recent foundation art show at Abingdon college. All her pictures were of pigeons in urban settings in black and white.

A day or two before the exhibition she found this pigeon outside our front door, which given her obsession with pigeons did seem strange.