The Scaffolding was put up at the old music shop last Wednesday.

Up the front and over the top…

but down round the back it has already been taken down. That work has been done. The building is being refitted with flats above, and a shop just on the bottom story.

It used to be a two-story music shop with: CDs, sheet music, and instruments, and above it all: children’s music lessons in the rooms above the shop, accessed by the old fire escape.

Now, Abingdon is a musical place with musicians and bands but no music shop.

This is how it was left last night. Still cold. Everything was outlined in white as night fell. The ground was hard.

This morning we woke to a red sky, and a thin layer of snow on the pavements of Saint Helen’s Wharf

, but despite the early snow it felt as if the cold had let go its grip.

On the Market Place today old Christmas trees are being recycled and turned into woodchip and mulch.

This is one of the larger trees being fed into the shredder.

There was a trail of pine needles through our house, up West Saint Helen Street, along High Street, and to the Market Place. This is our tree, as was,

and this cloud of woodchip and needles is the last I saw of it.

Here in the heart of Abingdon are signs from Oxford City Council.

The area is just off the Radley Road. The roads nearby are: Daisy Bank, Campion Road, Purslane, and Ramsoms Way. Some of the homes belong to Oxford City Homes and Community Housing.

Being a distant landlord they sometimes need reminding of their responsibilities.

I always take a keen interest in the Oxford Daily Photo, a photo blog with one picture a day. When there is something special in Oxford additional pictures do get posted on an overflow blog. This week there were some of Ice Skating on Port Meadow in Oxford.