A drama festival of one act plays has been running this week at the Unicorn Theatre. Three plays return for the final gala night in front of the Mayor of Abingdon, the Chair of the Vale, and Colin Dextor.

But on the penultimate evening a full theatre watched the Launton Village Players performing a real fun play within a play, centred on a bed, written by one of their number – “Well done Launton near Bicester“

and Stagelights did part of an Alan Ayckbourn Play – with some good strong characters – and return for the Gala night.

Well worth the £5 Tkts, but I would not guarantee there being any left for the final night.

Young trees have been planted to replace

the trees that got broken off in 2006. This time they look better guarded.

There is another new tree to fill the gap where a diseased lime tree was chopped in 2006.

The path has also been remade – so Caldecott Road has ‘new tarmac and new trees’.

Round the outskirts of Abingdon are various cycle ways, but in the town centre they just don’t join up…

At the top of East St Helens Street, for example, some cyclists seem to ignore what is a one way street and ride from Lombard Street up against the flow towards St Nic’s Church. They are supposed to dismount.

Oxfordshire County Council did draw up a scheme that would have made this cycle route legal and safer.

It meant reducing the flower bed by the County Hall, loosing taxi parking spaces, and cutting a cycle way through the island in front of St Nic’s Church.

Not sure this got any further than the drawing board.

Progress on the new Abindgon School £9m sports hall continues…