Harvest Festival at Trinity Church this morning. Hymns included ‘We plough the field and scatter’ and ‘ Come ye thankful people come’.

A good crowd were there for what was Revd Ruth Whitehead’s penultimate Sunday. She is going to lead four churches in Cambridgeshire (two anglican and two URC) and will be missed.

After the harvest festival service, ninety people took part in a Harvest lunch at the Conduit Centre next to the church.

This travelling museum in a horse box has been in Abingdon for the weekend.

Half of the horse box contained a life size white horse, and half was crammed with the rest of the collection, on shelves and in drawers. It included pieces about archaeology and landscape, but mostly it was a collection of white horses (plastic models, fabric representations, ceramic, paper, horse metals, and books including the Alice Walker poetry book ‘Horses make a Landscape look more beautiful.’)

More about the exhibition at: http://www.museumofthewhitehorse.org.uk/

This is Friday, late afternoon, and the traffic on the A415 stretches from Abingdon

back into Culham. This traffic is going over Swift Ditch on a bridge built by the County Council in 1928.

It replaced this much older

and now little used bridge.

Back then, in 1928, they didn’t have much traffic but they still built a new bridge.

This multiplay arrived in an Abingdon recreation ground earlier this year. It is on that most bumpy of all Abingdon’s play areas,

not far from this: Mural by T Rawlings – W Zawadzki – G Rudman & E O’Reilly – Work Experience 1996.

As you can see the mural has been added to more recently.