We are in the middle of the Oxfordshire Science Festival and the start of the Abingdon Arts Festival. The one science event I see advertised in Abingdon takes part later today. Popular science writer John Gribbin will be doing a talk called The Multiverse at the Guildhall.

But be warned, I have learned some rather bad news predicted by cosmologists from watching science programs on TV and John Gribbin will be talking Cosmology.

In about 5 billion years the Sun will no longer be seen as a distant object that can be made to balance on the Millenium Needle.

The sun is not sufficiently big that when it runs out of fuel it will collapse into a black hole, instead the centre will collapse and the burning gas exterior will expand into a huge hot vaperous Red Giant star that will eat up the earth, including anything that remains of Abingdon. Not a trace will be left…

Perhaps it is the prevailing wind but all the signs down near the Abbey Gardens are pointing in the same direction.

The Monday Market is on every week. It is the largest Market in Abingdon and on a sunny Monday adds a real buzz to the town.

There is an amazing stall selling seed potatoes with names like Santana, Anya, and Winston.

We have a French Market coming this Friday and Saturday – but can it beat this pure English Market for colour?

At the Monday Market you can even find the Sky For Sale.

There is currently a display of little French shops in the windows of Patisserie Pascal – all made by Year 6 from Our Lady’s School during French Week.

I hear that pupils from Our Lady’s are encouraged to ask in French when they go shopping in Patisserie Pascal in East St Helen Street. It is after all a good place to try out your French.