There is evidence that the Green Gym have started their program for the year. A wood chip trail has been laid.

Not very far away a couple of dining chairs have been left. I wonder what they are saying to the tree or visa versa. That is assuming they can talk.

Resurfacing work on Bath Street and temporary Stop Go signs added to the mix in Abingdon town centre.

The High Street started off with pavements made from bricks.

The new slabs come carefully wrapped and stacked on pallets

and look like this when laid.

On Saturday, Tim Healey gave a talk to the Abingdon European Society on The Green Man in Britain and Europe.

As I understand it, having browsed the internet on the subject… The Green Man is a name coined by Lady Raglan in 1939 to fit a mediaeval carving. This one is to be found above the west porch of St Helen’s Church in Abingdon.

In St Nicolas, on the choir stalls, etched into the wood, are various images of Green Men. It looks like a pagan image to me, but one that people didn’t mind putting in and round their churches.

The other example I know of in Abingdon is the stone face beneath the Abbey Gateway – decorating one of the roof supports. The surrounding leaves suggest that he could soon turn into a full Green Man with more foliage coming from his mouth.

I don’t know how old these examples are, possibly only Victorian, so does anybody know the whereabouts of any more or how old these ones might be.