The dogs can sense that something is wrong. They don’t need to be bloodhounds.

Not one, but two trees are down at Albert Park.

Just the trunk remains, and a pile of sawdust at the base. No other debry. Everything else has been cleared away, apart from a few leaves.

This is no accident.

I prefer the Farmers Market in Old Station Yard. It seems more cosy than when it used to be split: half under the Abbey Gateway, and half under the museum.

The Monday Market had a second week off – because of the Runaway Fair, and so this week the Farmers Market had the town more to it self.

Today is Blog Action Day on the environment so this in my post on that theme.

Pictures are from the cycle path bordering the Lake that RWE NPower want to fill with ash waste from the local power station. Many trees have been cut. Fences erected. Drainage pipes put in place.

A strange black skirt has been added.

RWE NPower are just waiting to get the final go ahead, and the
Save Radley Lakes campaign are still trying by all legitimate means to stop them. But it has just been announced that their attempt to get it designated a town green has been rejected.

So will this be the last autumn to enjoy these scenes?

The fair rides are back again, but this time the little childrens rides go centre stage.

The runaway fair takes place a week after the Michaelmas Fair.

Rather than shutting all of High Street, and Ock Street, only High Street is shut. But it can be a squeeze for the buses to go round via West St Helen Street.