On the Market Place this morning there was a cake stall and tombola run by the scouts.

37 scouts and explorers from Oxfordshire are going to the 23rd World Scout Jamboree 2015 in Japan to join with 30,000 scouts from all around the world. The cake stall is just one of many events to help raise money to pay for the trip which will be a once in a lifetime experience.

There was also a children’s roundabout on the Market Place. There used to be a regular Saturday roundabout until about a year ago but this one looks different.

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Last Saturday we went to the Royal British Legion in Abingdon for a concert. The concert was interrupted at 10pm by the weekly meat draw – a raffle where bottles of wine, and joints of meat are the prizes. I think I heard that the meat came from Dews Meadow Farmshop in East Hanney, who were there today on the Market Place as part of the Farmers Market.

We won some  pork  – the best we had tasted in a long time, and went back for more today.

(The British Legion are happy to welcome new members. I think its just over £20 a year for membership. They have very reasonably priced drinks and a weekly meat draw. )

At midday today Abingdon-on-Thames Market Place looked like a bank holiday seaside town in the 1960s thanks to the Abingdon Bad Company who invited other scooter groups to an Inter County Rideout from Abingdon to East Challow.

Next weekend, sees the August Bank Holiday ride to the Isle of Wight National Rally, so today was a good chance to try out the scooters and raise some money for charity.