Figure 5: Study of queues

Figure 6: Childhood Home remembered

Figure 7: Nudes

Figure 8: Furniture of recycled cardboard

This pair on the Abbey Mill stream have seven cygnets.

And this parent at the entrance to Abingdon Marina has eight.

Swan Upping comes to Abingdon on Friday July 18th this year. The final day of the week long Royal swan count should end at Abingdon Bridge at 17:30. But if these large swan families are anythingto go by, the final toast to ‘The Queen’ could be late.

So what were all the marquees doing near the river on Saturday? I am told there were between four and five hundred people there for the final event.

They came to celebrate 50 years of GBM Radio.

Near the Old Abbey Buildings is the Abbey Baptist Chapel. A few doors along Abbey Close they have their recording studios – GMB Radio. From Abingdon they are producing broadcasts for the Far East and Africa.

At Abingdon and Witney College an exhibition called VIEW – The End of Year Show 2008 is happening. It is the work of young artists from the college… most about to leave Abingdon for university.

Figure 1: An Architectural Project

Figure 2: Fashion Designs

Figure 3: This may be their last…

Figure 4: Broken Window

(Pictures by my wife. A few more to follow. Catch it yourself at Abingdon College from 23rd to 26th June – 10am to 7 pm )