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Rain, sunshine, and intermittent showers

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Bright Sun
This Sunday morning started off wet and windy.
Bright Sun
Then the sun came through. Lots of people were enjoying the sunshine, seen here as a dazzling white from Margaret Brown Gardens
Bright Sun
and blue sky and water looking back from Wilsham Road.
Bright Sun
There was a notice on a capsized boat that said the owner was aware. They did not need telling again. So not everybody was enjoying today.
Bright Sun
A line of pigeons on the Wilsham Road railings came down as a flock. They kept jostling and trying to find the best position. Some flew off again in search of something better.

Later on, the sky clouded over, and there were intermittent showers.

Driving home to Abingdon with historic rainbow

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Back Home
Driving home to Abingdon, after coming off the M4, there was a spectacular double rainbow above the A34. It stayed ahead of us, all the way, until we saw the new houses of Great Western Park, Didcot (no longer dominated by the Didcot Power Station cooling towers).

I have never seen a full rainbow for quite so long, or ever been so close to a rainbow. The arc in the sky appeared, closeby, in the spray thrown by passing cars.
Back Home
Back home in Abingdon, there was bright sunshine at St Helen’s Wharf, and a quarter rainbow above Abingdon Bridge.

Puddles, Sodden Leaves and Rotting Roots in Albert Park

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Walk in Park
Rain continues to fall in Abingdon. There were puddles at the sides of roads, including Park Road.
Walk in Park
The persistent rainfall had created a larger puddle inside one park entrance.
Walk in Park
There was a deeper soakaway outside the other entrance.
Walk in Park
Sodden leaves hung from trees.
Walk in Park
Although I could not see rotting tree roots underground, something has given food to the toadstools that have recently risen in clumps. Somebody saw me taking this picture and asked me if they were edible.

I said, ‘I wouldn’t risk it.’

Last Saturday (Abingdon Cuts Plastic) This Saturday (Guide Dogs in the rain)

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Against Plastic
Last Saturday Abingdon Cuts Plastic were having a small clean-up. Numbers were restricted, because of Covid-19, to 6 in canoes and 6 on land.

They were doing it as part of the Surfers Against Sewage 6 week Plastic Protest, which started on 5th September and ends on 18th October. SAS are lobbying MPs to include in the Environment Bill, that all businesses set plastic reduction targets. They need as many people as possible to show they support this idea.
Against Plastic
Also they want people to photograph “evidence” of branded rubbish that’s ended up as litter, and send it to SAS. Instagram has lots of #returntooffender pictures.

Anne, who sent me the pictures, told me that they found:
* lots of Budweiser bottles in the Abbey Grounds
* 6 sackfuls of non-recyclable waste
* 4 large sackfuls of recyclable waste
The most unusual find was an ancient car horn.
Against Plastic
It rained a lot of yesterday and it has rained a lot of today and the forecast has a high probability of rain for most of next week. Cars had their lights on at midday today.
Against Plastic
Despite the rain, Guide Dogs went ahead with a stall on Abingdon Market Place. New Guide Dog training did stop for a couple of months at the start of the pandemic and restarted in June. This did mean a longer wait for some people needing a replacement Guide Dog.