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On the Market Place today in Abingdon

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The Queen is celebrating her 92nd birthday and the Sue Ryder charity shop window reflected the occasion with flags and memorabilia.
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As BykerRode commented the clock is working again on the front of St Nicolas Church Tower for the first time in many months.
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On the Market Place today there was a market made up of food and drink stalls with a lucky dip and hook a duck.
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The Town Crier did an announcement and afterwards wished her Majesty a happy birthday.
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The High Street will be shut to traffic tomorrow for the Abingdon Cycling Festival. There was not one last year so it is good to see it back.

Abingdon Market Place Today

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On the Market Place in Abingdon this morning the Citizen’s Advice and NSPCC shared a stall. Here is Lorraine Oates, former Mayor, for the NSPCC; and Hilary Green, former Mayor, for Citizens Advice.
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It was a lovely day. Perhaps the warmest of the year so far. The worse that could happen was that the wind blew the papers about on the stall.
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Lorraine pointed out the flower bed near St Nicolas Church and how good it is looking.

Local Excellence Market – March 2018

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Local Excellence Market
At the Local Excellence Market in Abingdon today, Totoro, a snow trooper, and Harlequin were there on the Abingdon and Witney College stall to let people know about ThamesCon . This event will include performances, workshops, exhibitions, and food. Sir Tony Robinson will even be there as part of a reunion of the cast of Maid Marian and her Merry Men. It is on 28th April at the college. More information at https://thamescon.co.uk/
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Next to Thames con were The Hampshire Gluten Free Company who come from an old farm cottage overlooking Watership Down – which is a real place, not far from Newbury.
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There were lots of stalls at the market and the weather this Saturday was good after the snow of last weekend.
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The Town Crier was letting people know about the Market. He has grown a moustache for the Abingdon Drama Club forthcoming production of ‘A More Perfect World’. He is one of three characters telling the story of their first world war. It is on from 11th-14th April and tickets can be bought at http://www.abingdon-drama-club.com/
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His cries did help to bring the crowds to the Market Place.

Abingdon-on-Thames Science Festival starts on the Market Place

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Abingdon-on-Thames Market Place was bustling with young scientists, and their parents, trying to find what makes things tick. There were a good variety of stalls to help them at the start of the two week Science Festival.
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Enthusiastic scientists introduced particle physics with lego bricks and pressure physics with balloons.
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The Abingdon Naturalists Society had come along with mini beasts fetched by pond dipping earlier in the day. The beasts would be returned to their ponds so long as they had not been eaten by bigger beasts.
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They had also gathered samples of moss and fungi from near the River Ock – also to be replaced later in the day. David G told me that the fungi here include: Scarlet Elf Caps, Turkey Tails, Artist’s Bracket Fungus, and Peeling Oyster Fungus.
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There were space explorers with telescopes and pictures they had taken of new and decaying stars from the Abingdon Astronomical Society.
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There were robots – mini versions of what are used to help maintain the tokamak at the Fusion Research Laboratory in nearby Culham.
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St Helen and Katherine School were there making super-cool liquid nitrogen ice-cream,
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and had objects from the anatomy lab.

Elsewhere there were children walking round with brain caps showing their occipital, parietal and temporal lobes. Oxford University are doing research into the brain and the effect of strokes. And there were also stalls I could not get near as they were crowded with kids.

More of what is on during the Science Festival can be seen at http://www.atomfestival.org.uk/events/