A deep hole has just opened up in West Saint Helen Stret.

Witnesses tell me that there was a roller helping lay tarmac over a hole last night and overnight it just opened up.

Looking down the hole, all that can be seen is darkness without end.

Heritage Open Day is next Saturday. This display is in the library. There are the historic buildings open for free, and this year there is an odd object in the shop window competition.

Free entry forms to be found on the Market Place. Its really for the fun of taking part, but there will be prizes as well.

Elsewhere today there was a French Market in town. But do we need them now we have Patisserie Pascal?

and the Abingdon Community Church, who meet at Thameside School, were promoting an Alpha Course.

‘Every month each Waitrose supermarket will distribute £1,000 between three local projects. Customers will be encouraged to vote for their preferred project and the £1,000 will be split in line with the vote.’

This time the leader is the ‘Abingdon Alzheimers Club’, and last month the clear leader was ‘Friends of Abingdon Community Hospital.’

The Almshouses as you have never seen them before – unless you go by this way regularly. The charity of Christ’s Hospital of Abingdon, who look after them, dates back a long way. The new roof tiles will be chosen to last. Christ’s Hospital must think in decades while we think in days.

However in the day-to-day blink-of-an-eye the archway leading from the Almshouses to the river was, apparently, damaged by a delivery lorry.