North over Carswell School.
East along Ock Street.
West along Ock Street.
South across the Ock Valley Walk. Thanks to the Fire Fighters for the chance to take these four views over Abingdon on Saturday…
Today I saw young cricketers at Abingdon Vale Cricket Club being taught spin bowling under a blue sky, while parts of the outfield still lay under water. There has been a third day of sunshine, but the ground is still waterlogged.
The sun has been out for a couple of days and people have been out in summer clothes.
For the first time today people could walk through the undercroft of the County Hall.
I have never seen it looking so light and bright.
There are now uplights in the pavements round the building, some of them in the new pavement at the front. I look forward to seeing it at night with the lights on.
Peter sent me a picture a few days back of “a fallen tree in the public park in Lambrick Way. Incidently the sky over the Marina was thick with swifts. They must have got a free trip up here on the strong winds. Also the Thames path is flooded at the little bridge over the mill stream near the lock.”
Spike sent me a picture at water level of the high water on the River Thames – from his canoe.
I also got a message that the Fair had made a bit of a mess trying to leave the land by the River Ock. It looks like the Circus did not even try to compound the problem, and have bypassed Abingdon.
Water levels are now going down. Winds have dropped. We just need some warm weather in order to reinforce the government message that we are in a drought.
There was not only a lot of rain last night, there was also a strong wind. All sorts of things were blown down.
A lot of branches had been torn from trees in the Abbey Meadows. Trees and fences came down in other parts of Abingdon.
My mind went back to October 1987, the night of the big storm. That was the time when Michael Fish on the BBC weather said “Apparently a woman rang the BBC to say there is a hurricane on the way. Don’t worry! There isn’t...” 
There was devastation the morning after.