Thanks to John of Kingfisher Close for some pictures from Tuesday evening

of a rainbow as the sun went down.

A gaggle of nuns gathered in Abingdon this afternoon. They were not real nuns but had gathered for a Hen Party, and were enjoying the sun.

The River Thames has overflowed onto the Abbey Meadows after some fairly heavy rain last week.

Abingdon also welcomed a number of swans on what was a quite balmy afternoon for this time of year.

Thanks to my wife for the final shot showing a swan from the other side of a Welcome to Abingdon sign.

There was a misty start to the day here in Abingdon and so here are a few pictures from my morning walk with camera (but no Harry).

Plane trees on St Helen’s Wharf fade into the distance.

A stone lion on a gatepost on the Drayton Road. There is not a lot of traffic at 8:30am.

One car turns right into the Drayton Road, at the double mini roundabout, while another heads straight to Ock Street.

Cars are parked tightly together on Edward Street.

Daffodils in Albert Park with indistinct houses in Park Road behind.

A colonnade of Plane trees at the bottom of Conduit Road – nothing visible beyond.

The temperatures have been below freezing for the last three nights, and this morning there was a frost on pavements and roofs. This picture shows Long Alley Almshouses, built in 1446-17 by the Fraternity of the Holy Cross. It is now maintained by its successor, Christ’s Hospital of Abingdon – established in 1553.

Catching up after the Christmas and New Year breaks, the recycling lorry was out collecting recyclables from the large green wheelie bins, and food waste from the little green bins. Another lorry was collecting Christmas trees and compost from people who have brown wheelie bins.

Near Abingdon Marina, the view across the River Thames shows three of the six large cooling towers at Didcot A Power Station. The first three were blown down in July 2014, and the other three will be blown down later this year.

There was a layer of ice near the slipway at the Marina.

and large puddles were iced over,

as was the water where the boats are moored.