This is the sunrise over the Thames from the Abbey Meadows.

This is the sunset looking across St Helen’s Close from our top floor window in West St Helen’s Street.

Helen and Douglas House is a charity shop with a lounge in the book section. Always good window dressing too.

The original 5 cent store was Frank Woolworth’s store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. Strange that the UK now has Woolworths and the USA hasn’t. Things have turned upside down.

Last weekend, barriers and traffic cones had been set up like a little orange fortess at the start of the Ock Valley Walk.

The fortess has gone and the kerbs have been levelled. (The levellers were a 17th century political movement. They weren’t really about bringing everybody to the same level. But that is how they got labelled by their enemies.)

These new age levellers are employed by the council. They are helping to give EQUAL ACCESS to legs or wheels. (Hopefully not too many of those wheels will be shopping trolleys and motor cycles.)

The workmen were back, and most of the Market Place was fenced off.

They were digging holes for the Liquid Amber trees to be planted on Thursday, or maybe Friday.

Different contractors are back near the Abbey Gateway, to do some remedial work, replacing the York stone setts on the road that chipped too easily.