I have been looking back at umbrella pictures and found lots in June 2012, the month of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
1. An audience enjoy a performance by Larkmead School choir on Abingdon Market Place.
2. A group from St Helens Church enjoy the Jubilee street party.
3. Umbrellas being held Abingdon style during the Jubilee bun throwing – to catch the buns.
For more Umbrella pictures go to City Daily Photo February Theme Day.
One of our North Abingdon correspondents has found a web page showing the level of the River Thames at Abingdon Lock – rising steadily again.
There was a rainbow over the Upper Reaches, on Sunday, during one of a number of showers.
The night before, and after, there was heavy rain. Any remaining snow has been washed away, and this evening the Ock Valley path is already under a few inches of water again.
Another rainbow was visible, on Sunday, over the road beyond Lodge Hill, currently closed by a landslide.
That is halfway between Oxford and Abingdon.
It is not a way we normally walk but there is the opportunity now that it is almost car free.
S I N J U N @lordsinjun tweeted this picture of a polar bear seen in #Abingdon.
There was still lots of snow for making snowmen, snowcreatures and pulling children round on sledges. I even saw one child being pulled on a sledge across Caldecott Rec by a bike.
As always when it snows I take far too may pictures to put them all on the blog. These are possibly my favorite five … St Helens Wharf viewed from Wilsham Road …
Trendell’s Folly in the Abbey Gardens …
A fisherman by the River Thames …
Twitty’s Almshouses.
St Helen’s Church with snow like blossom on the trees.
Other pictures can be found on a facebook album called Snow in Abingdon on 18-19th Jan 2013 .
Got back to Abingdon after a four hour drive that usually only takes one. The band of snow had already passed Abingdon but caused great problems when I tried to leave Bracknell at the same time as lots of other people.
I was back in time to donate blood at Preston Road Community Centre but that had been cancelled because of adverse weather conditions. So I still have the blood.
Stopped off at Reynolds Way shops to get something to eat only to have snow balls thrown at the car by some giggling children hiding near the garages.
Finally I uploaded a youtube video of the last 2 minutes of the long journey.