It was an excellent day for the Local Excellence Market. The town crier was out and about letting people know what else was going on: one more day of the craft fair, and Scout fireworks on November 5th behind Long Furlong Community Centre ( Gates Open 6:30pm. Park at Tilsley Park.)

The Carbon Cutters had a clever device to see how hot things are. As you can see Helen, who sent me the picture of the fallow deer recently, is cool where she is insulated but hot where she is not.

Here they are discussing my thermal image. There is also a picture of Harry’s Thermal image on the Harry dog blog.

Lots of good stalls as always. There were cakes from Jane’s Kitchen…

Jill Carver had two suppliers showing their wares. Jill is seen here holding a picture of the Moroccan Argan Tree. The Olive Oil and Argan Oil, in the picture, come from Morocco. The Argan oil is very good but takes a lot of extracting from unyielding nuts and so is not cheap.

There were also a couple of vegetable stalls, an apple stall, meat stall, craft stalls, and local beers, which if the town council have their way we will be able to drink on the Market Place on special occasions (front page story in the Abingdon Herald last week).

Lots of people were out in town enjoying the occasional sunshine and the local excellence market.

The carrots and other produce on this stall were picked yesterday.

Duncan Brown, ex Mayor, bought some beetroot.

There were samples of very tasty Double Gloucester, and Blue Veined Cheddar, from Glastonbury.

Jill Carver, from Added Ingredients, had some very fine Olive Oil for people to try.

The carbon cutters had a bike that drove a food mixer making strawberry smoothies – just visible behind the Town Crier on the bike.

The local excellence market was on from 9:00 – 14:00 today.