Down near Saint Helen’s Wharf, the metal barrier, which used to impede wheeled access, was removed last year. It was neither wheelchair nor baby-buggy friendly, and had to be got rid of in these post Disability Discrimination Act times.

The replacement was a traditional bollard which fits in better with the traditional looking wharf.

Many thanks to Colin, an ex-pat Abingdonian, for sending this picture of the Wharf. He started scanning old negatives onto the computer, and found this one taken by his dad.

A new website has been set up, and very soon it will be followed by paper copies showing Whats On in Abingdon.

The intention is to show all that is going on in Abingdon during, what is traditionally, a quieter time of year. But why stop there… Everybody can send in what they are doing to abingdondiary@otcn.co.uk. Hopefully, then it will run and run.

First up on the ‘Whats On’ is an evening with Joanna Trollope at Saint Helen and Katherine School, hosted by Mostly Books.

It’s already too late for a performance of the Bach Christmas Oratorio – last night at Saint Helen’s Church – which Harry and me listened to from the porch for a few minutes, during a dog-walk.

At St Michaels, this is the newly made labyrinth in the style of the ancient Abbey of Abingdon.
Here parishioners are walking the labyrinth under the general guidance of the Revd.. Sally Welch,

a Diocesan adviser on labyrinths, their history, and their potential contribution to the spiritual life..

(Thanks to John again for the pictures and words.)

The road works have already started at the top end of Stratton Way. They will run for another 3 to 4 weeks.

Elsewhere in Stratton Way there is a new church on Sundays from 11 – 12:30 at the NET youth centre. For anybody who has been enjoying watching ‘Around the World in 80 Religions’ this church could be of interest. It had its origin in Nigeria in 1952. They have already set up a church in Barton in Oxford.