Abingdon Rugby Club holds one of the oldest Club Rugby Sevens Tournaments in England, originating in 1956, and held at the Southern Town Park. Todays tournament started at midday and went on until about six.

The Breakfreekz 2007 Boat Party passed alongside us at Abingdon Lock, as we walked down the river towards Swift Ditch. They had come from Oxford and were returning that way. The music stopped for as long as it took to get through the Lock. It had started to rain.

By the time we reach Swift Ditch, the boat had left us some way behind and all we could hear was the thump of the drum N bass – from the rave on the river in the rain.

The Abingdon Town Bus is pictured here at St Helens Wharf. You can’t see the passengers because there are just too many flowers!

The original timetable, started last year, was difficult to keep to and is likely to be changed in the autumn.

This is the top of a wet Stert Street yesterday evening. AbITS work is underway to widen the pavement – something that should help protect the jutting out side of The Knowl building – built around 1580, with a lot of rebuilding in the 18th Century including a fine staircase….

and this is the Market Place, pictured a few minutes later, with rainwater running away along the newly made channels. I shouldn’t think the hanging baskets have really needed THAT much watering.

It has been a summer like no other.