The new world record is on The Guinness World Records.

It can also be read about it on The BBC , Abingdon Herald, BT.com …

Skye Hall took part in the children’s craze of weaving small colourful bands into bracelets, but took it to another level while undergoing treatment for cancer. He had the dream to make a loom band long enough to stretch to the moon. His courage and dream has seen his family and friends this week taking the world record.

Today there was a fun day at the Abingdon Business Park, and the presentation of the certificate by The Mayor, Helen Pighills, who has made Blue Skye Thinking one of her charities.

They are continuing to fund raise so other young lives can be saved.

Thanks to Naomi for sending me this…

Naomi helps fund raise for a local Oxford/Abingdon charity called Flexicare. They have been going for thirty years and provide sitting in / care at home for families who have a child with severe physical and/or learning disability.

Over the weekend the charity had two fundraising walks around the Ridgeway including a wheelchair accessible route.

The refreshment tent was at Scutchamer Knob.

The next Flexicare fund raiser is a concert at the Natural History Museum in Oxford on June 19th.

I was suprised to see a large cow at the Christian Aid stall on Abingdon Market Place yesterday. The message is that Christian Aid can provide cows to vulnerable women in Ethiopia – just £150 is enough to buy a cow and a more promising future.

The cow had been made with 2 A frames, and chicken wire, overlaid with papier mache.

The cow was also to be seen in Abingdon Baptist Church this evening for the Church in Abingdon Christian Aid service. It was made in the garage of a member of the Baptist Church, and will now be retiring to Wales to join a zoo of papier mache animals.

As this is Christian Aid week houses in some areas may have received a Christian Aid envelope. There are fewer collectors compared to 25 years ago when most houses in Abingdon got such an envelope. But of the £13,000 raised in Abingdon for Christian Aid last year, £9,000 still came from house collections.