I spotted a large hawk over Gainsborough Green in South Abingdon. I remember on the Blue Peter children’s programme, in years gone by, how they monitored the last pair of breeding Kites on an isolated Scottish Loch.

I said to one lady “Have you seen that”

She just said “Oh he’s often here now”

Red Kites have been re-introduced (for that is what I think it is) and they thrive over the land near Didcot Power Station. They even come scouting over Abingdon.

Beneath the Trinity steeple

there was a triple golden wedding celebration – three couples from Trinity celebrating their golden wedding anniversaries together. The picture is of tea on the lawn afterwards.

Rev. Malcolm Atherton returned to conduct the celebration service . He is a much missed former minister who left Abingdon about four years ago to look after three churches in Warrington, Cheshire.

This is not really Malcolm’s removal lorry but one I chanced to see yesterday. If it had been Malcolm’s, it would have been full of water pumps, pond liners, and tanks brimming with Carp.

They pulled down the corrugated chapel of rest at the back of the funeral directors. A new brick one has been built as an extension to the main building. The vacated land is being used for housing.

Builders vans are also there to put up scaffolding and green nets for the Tomkins Almshouses over the road.

There has been an awful lot of froth floating downstream from Oxford.

The froth did not stop the enjoyment of the crowds on the Abingdon Riviera (but may have neutered some unsuspecting fish).