The walls round the Abbey Gardens are covered with multi coloured polythene.

Every now and again somebody comes to uncover a section and works in the mortar.

The three Abingdon individuals with the largest entries in Wikipedia are…

Kate Garraway GMTV presenter, and star of Strictly Come Dancing.

St Edmund of Abingdon.
And Paul Gustafson

Among other things, Paul is also the author of the Eggbert books…

The acupuncture place took down their herbs jars, from the High Street shop, yesterday

and they have moved them to the empty Crystals shop on Lombard Street… So good news for anybody in the middle of an acupuncture course – the acupuncture can go on.

In the West End newsagents window there is an advertisement for a new toy shop upstairs – its been there for about a month.

Also advertised in the window is a Christmas Craft and Beauty Fair today from 11 to 3.

I went to the fair at around 1, and found lots of colourful stalls, and bought some things for Christmas. Some of the proceeds go to Helen and Douglas House. But there were not that many paying customers and the stall holders were giving each other Christmas Consolations as a consequence.

The four liquid amber trees are also now up in the Market Place.