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Abingdon Arts Festival Ball

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Abingdon Arts Festival Ball
The Abingdon Arts Festival Ball was last night at the Guildhall. The Band were “Swingtime” and they had three singers, an American crooner who also played cornet.
Abingdon Arts Festival Ball
A young lady who also played a horn I think …
Abingdon Arts Festival Ball
And an excellent new singer who performed for the first time with the band.
Abingdon Arts Festival Ball
George Haslam conducted and played clarinet.
Abingdon Arts Festival Ball

Food was provided by Abbey Foods, and there was a raffle with prizes donated by local businesses. Donating prizes must be a bit of a strain on balances at straightened times like these but despite that lots of people were very generous.

At first most of the dancing seemed to be of the Strictly Come Dancing variety. Balls are a chance for some people to practise their foxtrot and cha-cha-cha,  but there is always room for disco dancing – it is all that some of us know 🙂 .

Church in Abingdon Quiz

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(See comments for corrections to this report.)
Church in Abingdon Quiz
Christ Church won the Church in Abingdon quiz last year, and like the Eurovision Song Contest they had to host it this.

There were 11 teams of 8 representing 11 different churches. Apart from a prayer at the start the format was similar to a pub quiz. The closest we got to a religious question was in the round where we had to guess famous people from their childhood names ….Marion Morrison = John Wayne …. Lhamo Dondrub = Dalai Lama.

My own general knowledge is not so good anymore. But other people from the Trinity team did well and at the end of the evening we came third. ACC came second. That is Abingdon Community Church who meet at Thameside School.

And Christ Church on Long Furlong won. There are two Christ Churches in Abingdon … The original in Northcourt, and the offspring, set up about 20 years ago, who meet at Long Furlong School.

Christmas Tree Festival

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Christmas Tree Festival
Thanks to Jan of the Literary Teapot Blog for this report …

As well as trees from groups such as the Scouts, Guides and Messy Church, there were trees from Abingdon Carbon Cutters, Abingdon Writers, Frend the jewellers (not real jewels, unfortunately) and Rosie’s tea shop (decorated with salt dough teapots!) There was also a prayer tree where people wrote on cards the names of people they would like the church to pray for.
Christmas Tree Festival
All this support was very welcome and the result was wonderful: we raised over £500 for Oxford Homeless Pathways, and John Lewis High Wycombe generously added another £100.