Ox Eye Daisies seem to be doing particularly well this year – whether you go out along the river towards Swift Ditch…
or out near the new canal cut (at Jubilee Junction).
A Field of Daisies
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Local permits now available
People won’t have to go quite so far for a fishing permit. During the close season anglers might have had to go to Didcot to get a fishing permit to fish an ex gravel pit in South Abingdon.
From 16 June residents permits and season tickets for the 2011/2012 fishing season are available for river fishing from Abingdon Town Council.
Festival of One Act Plays
Three plays from the One Act Play Festival, at the Unicorn Theatre, were asked back as the adjudicator’s choice on the final Saturday night.
Then at the end of the evening two prizes were on offer, to be presented by the patron of the drama festival, Colin Dextor.
Both went to a hilarious play called ‘A Dog’s Life’ written by Pam Valentine and performed by Henley Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society. It involved four dogs in a dog rescue centre.
Good to see Pam back at the Unicorn making things happen – behind the scenes.
Abingdon in a parallel universe
It is 9pm on a warm Friday evening.
It feels almost Mediterranian at the far end of Bath Street where Cafe Zeko now serve Tapas on Friday and Saturday evenings. People are seated outside. A couple of ladies are looking at Marie’s colourful window display. Over the road Bella Napolli are serving meals.
People also sit outside at Ask, half hidden by the olive trees.
Not far away is the Ock Street Taxi rank … Taxis either queue there or are parked along up by the Market Place waiting to get out onto High Street. There is a whole different Abingdon the taxi drivers know. And one of them, called Dave, writes very realistically about it on the The AbingdonTaxi twitter stream. What I cannot work out is that he is often 3 or 4 hours ahead of me so it could be he is tweeting from another Abingdon in a parallel universe.