Throughout the day a collection of Abingdon Artists have been working away in the Guildhall, each painting one square from Holbein’s picture ‘The Ambassadors‘

Jennifer Gerrard, who did much of the organisation, chose ‘The Ambassadors’ picture – at least partly – because every square had enough detail to make it interesting to paint.

From 4 PM, the bigger picture was assembled.

This is the children’s version.

And this is the adult’s version with the collection of artists beneath.

Both pictures can be seen over the next two weeks, for the duration of the Abingdon Arts Festival, in the Guildhall.

Last night must have been windy but I didn’t hear anything. So when I went for a walk down near Abingdon Lock it was a suprise to see a tree down.

It had smashed the end of the handrail of the bridge, and knocked over a litter bin, and bent a direction post. If it had fallen directly on the bridge it could have caused a lot more damage.

“These traffic signals are part of a network of linked signals to manage traffic within Abingdon Town Centre”. However, they are not linked close enough.

There are notices to say the lights need to move in closer to the rest of the system to improve the link. The four car parking spaces outside the Crown and Thistle to the right must go as a result.

Also a reply to an earlier comment about Bridge Street traffic. Tipsy almost got knocked over at the top of Bridge Street because Stert Street traffic can go in either direction and cars don’t indicate. Councillor Ian Hudspeth’s reply can be seen at this link .

The 1 A.M earthquake didn’t wake me. I only read about it on another local blog. I cannot really say that it caused this shelter on the cricket field to give way. It was probably like that anyway.

And looking round about, nothing else looked out of place. But then we were some way from the epicentre.