Longmead Lake has now been sold – I believe to a private concern. It is very close to, and overlooked by, the Sophos Offices on Abingdon Science Park. ( I don’t know whether Sophos or somebody else bought it.)

This tree will soon need to be felled. It is near the top of the permissive footpath that crosses direct from Barton Lane to the River Thames.

And there are notices saying that the Abingdon Naturalist Society Green Team and other volunteers are creating a 2 acre wild flower meadow using native species.

Somebody I was talking to this morning says that we have not had enough rainfall this year and we need the rain.

There has been some over last 24 hours. This puddle is near the bottom of Conduit Road.

The plane trees have been shedding but with rain to weigh down the leaves they are not drifting.

The Volunteering Information Fair was on at the The Roysse Room in the Guildhall…

Ryder-Cheshire Volunteers are looking for people able to give a little bit of time to share their enthusiasm or interest – photography, cooking, astonomy, art or whatever – with somebody else. They build up a list of able and disabled people and match them up

Vinvolved are there to promote volunteering for 16-25 year olds. I know my son is doing a bit of volunteer work because sometimes it is the way to get experience before you can get into a job.

Among others there were Guide Dogs for the Blind.

I tried out some special glasses – intended to help the rest of us understand better what it is like to have various optical conditions. This one is to simulate macular degenaration .

At about eight or nine O’Clock this evening, I heard loud noises upstairs. Then somebody, sounding like my daughter, shouted down “Daddy, Can you drive us to a party in North Abingdon.”

“Ok” I said.

But when they came downstairs, it did not look like them.

Nethertheless I drove them, but went like the wind.