Today at the Guildhall was the 50th Cat Show put on by the Oxford and District Cat Club. This lady, dressed up as a cat, had been out and about publicising the event, and she kindly did a cat pose for the camera.

Inside the hall I could not really understand what was going on.

Some ladies in white coats were going around putting endless rosettes on the cages. One lady I recognised but couldn’t place her in mufti.

And up on the stage some other more important judges sat around chatting and scribbling notes. In front of them were four cages:
B.I.S Longhair
B.I.S Shorthair
B.I.S Kitten
B.I.S Rescue
These categories were yet to be decided.

The rosettes however showed that a lot of categories were already decided. Best Black. Best tabby etc.

And the cats appeared to be doing what they do so well – sleep. These ones in the sky blue cage are burmese kittens.

This pictures is near Boulter Drive where a footpath crosses the Abingdon Peripheral Road.

On the left hand side of the footpath is a field that has been recently harvested, and the straw bundled. Beyond the field are the floodlights of Tilsley Park.

On the right is a smaller field with long horned cattle.

You can follow an alternative path down these steps towards Lodge Hill…

Or cross the A34 and walk up across the hill through Radley College in one direction, or carry on to Sunningwell.

Those are the same straw bundles again from the A34 footbridge.

Revisiting those three trees again …

The first tree on the Ock Valley walk is doing well.

The second looks a little tired after a dry summer.

The last young tree on Caldecott Road is not doing to bad considering. But it is growing more out than up.

I believe the Doctors at the top of the list have been there longer and new doctors get added at the bottom.

The longer you have been registered with a surgery the more likely you are to be with a doctor near the top of the list.

I say that because when I registered with Dr Robertson at Marcham Road, and my wife and children registered with Dr Crossley at the Abingdon Surgery, they were near the middle / bottom, and now they are both at the top.

(Long Furlong Medical Centre:
Dr A L Keeling
Dr T E Knowell
Dr E Allan
Dr J Moore
Dr N Elwig)