I saw this poster in the window of the Coventry Building Society in Abingdon. 50 is behind me already, 60 is some way ahead but I do not realistically expect to be retiring until at least age 65 – maybe even 70.

Over 1000 UK Parks have received the Green Flag Award and one of them is the Abbey Gardens. The award says ‘“The Abbey Gardens are located near to Abingdon Town centre and have recently been restored to the way they looked in their Victorian heyday at the end of the 19th Century…‘ To read on go to the winners.

This time of year it is looking less green and more yellow and red…

and of course Gold.

Workmen were finishing off the refurbishment last weekend.

Foundation Inns have brought the pub back from the brink, and it is looking good.

So after two years in the wilderness the Kings Head and Bell is about to re-open – minus the fountain. There are more pictures before the work was done at the Kings Head and Bell website
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(Thanks to Carl – now back in Florida – for the final picture.)

Board A at Abingdon Library has this Sweeney Todd display for this week. The production of the Sondheim musical by The Abingdon Operatic Society starts at the Amey Theatre today, and carries on through Halloween.

Their website has in bold writing… PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PRODUCTION IS NOT SUITABLE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.

In Victorian England, Sweeney Todd has just escaped from the penal colonies having been convicted for a crime he did not commit. The former barber has only one thing on his mind ― cold revenge against the corrupt judge who framed him, ruined his wife and stole his daughter to raise as his own. Teaming up with the dazzlingly demented Mrs Lovett, a struggling baker of meat pies, the “Demon Barber of Fleet Street” cooks up an hilariously macabre revenge scheme that fulfils both their needs in very unexpected ways!