Freetime Jazz at the Royal British Legion was another on a long list of events in the Abingdon Arts Festival.

The Hall has been completely done out since the last time this Blog featured Jazz in there.

Left to Right: Swetja (fujara – a shephers’s flute from Slovakia), Petr Zimak (drums), Jozef Laska (guitar) all from Prague, George Haslam (baritone sax) from Abingdon, and Stefano Pastor (violin) from Genoa.

As well as playing the RBL and the Stocks (this Friday) in Abingdon, they’ll be recording a session for a BBC Radio 3 Jazz Program.

Scooter McKenzie did a very popular cartoon workshop at the museum over the weekend. For more of his work see his blog.

Last time the bridge was mentioned it was being surrounded by a scaffold.

Since then it has been covered with sheets so that the execution is not in full view of the public.

The weekend has come, and the little bridge is enjoying a short reprieve.

But for the sides of the bridge it is already too late.

This show at the Guildhall can be seen here advertised in the window of AfPic.

It was based round Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man, and improvised in seven parts from babyhood through to second childhood.

The show was good: but my pictures are NOT. This is Kevin, as a young woman, trying out flirtation techniques on a volunteer from the audience.

Here are more blurred pictures, ending with death in white mask, and holding a sickle, coming to the old man in stage seven as he finished remembering his life – a short life on the stage made up of suggestions written on pieces of paper by the audience.

“If there is an afterlife, all I ask of God … – the old man picked up the last piece of paper – … is Chocolate.”